Speakers and Moderators

Mauricio Román Rojas

Independent Researcher and Congress Organizer

Independent Researcher

Independent researcher working on Christian personalism, with particular interests in the thought of Dietrich von Hildebrand, the philosophy of values, and the spiritual formation of the laity. He has presented papers at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross and the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. He is the organizer of the Congress “Remembering the Cristeros: Truth, Empathy, and Reconciliation One Hundred Years Later” and collaborates with the Anacleto González Flores Chair in developing academic and cultural initiatives surrounding the centenary of the Cristiada. He divides his time between Portland and San Francisco.

Jorge Tinoco Flores

Academic, professor and consultant

Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara

Jorge Tinoco Flores is an academic, professor, and consultant at the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (UAG), with a multidisciplinary background in philosophy, administration, social management, public policy, computer science, and bioethics. He holds master’s degrees from UAG in Philosophy, Administration, Social Management and Public Policy, and Computer Science, as well as a specialization in Senior Management. He has pursued doctoral studies in Bioethics and Administration and further studies in the History of Christianity, philosophy of economics, and leadership. His professional experience encompasses teaching, project management, strategic planning, social responsibility, team development, and the organization of academic initiatives. His interest in the history of Christianity and ethical reflection informs his work on the witness of the martyrs and its significance for contemporary Christian life.

Rodrigo Ruiz Velasco Barba

Historian and researcher

Universidad Panamericana

Rodrigo Ruiz Velasco Barba is a Mexican historian. He holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in History and Mexican History from the Universidad de Guadalajara and a doctorate in Social Sciences from CIESAS Occidente. He is a Level I member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers and has taught at Universidad Panamericana since 2014. His research focuses on the political and religious history of modern Mexico, Catholicism, and the Mexican right. He is the author of Salvador Abascal. El mexicano que desafió a la Revolución and a contributor to the collective volume Los ‘arreglos’ de 1929: fin de la Cristiada (Universidad de Guadalajara, 2025), as well as numerous historical studies published in Mexico and abroad. A descendant of Cristeros, his engagement with this period brings historical scholarship into conversation with a family memory connected to the conflict.

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Patrick Quinlan

Doctoral Researcher in Global Law

Universidad de Navarra

Patrick Quinlan is a doctoral researcher based between Spain and Texas. He is pursuing a doctorate in Global Law at the University of Navarra, where his research examines the state of exception, the encyclical Quas Primas, the Cristiada, and Blessed Anacleto González Flores. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Notre Dame Law School and at the Cardinal Sandoval Íñiguez Library in Guadalajara. He holds a Master’s degree in Theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he studied teleology, eudaimonia, and the social kingship of Christ in Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas, as well as the writings of Fr. Mateo Crawley-Boevey on the Enthronement of the Sacred Heart. He is also translating into English writings by Blessed Anacleto González Flores and a twentieth-century work on government and the common good.

Lawrence Lew

Chaplain

Blackfriars Hall, Oxford

Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. is a Dominican friar of the English Province, Promoter General of the Holy Rosary for the Order of Preachers, and Chaplain of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. Born in Kuala Lumpur and raised in an evangelical Protestant family, he became Catholic in Singapore and later entered the Dominican Order. He was ordained a priest in 2011 and holds a Licentiate in Sacred Theology. He has served in parish ministry, university chaplaincy, spiritual direction, and formation, and previously was Rector of the Rosary Shrine in London. Fr Lawrence is also widely known for his work in Marian spirituality, sacred art, and photography, through which he promotes the Dominican mission of preaching through beauty.

Angel Dimitrov

Doctoral Student in Philosophy

Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum)

Angel Dimitrov is currently a doctoral student at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome and teaches philosophy at the National High School of Ancient Languages and Cultures in Sofia. His research focuses on Thomistic metaphysics and ethics, the dialogue between the anthropology of St. Thomas Aquinas and contemporary psychology, and the history and development of the Thomistic school. Born in Pernik, Bulgaria, in 2000, he graduated from the National High School of Ancient Languages and Cultures before studying at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and a Master’s degree in Integrative Bioethics.

Miriam Savarese

Professor

Pontifical University of the Holy Cross

Miriam Savarese is a Researcher in Social Moral Theology at the School of Theology of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome and Assistant Professor of the Social Doctrine of the Church at the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences “all’Apollinare” (ISSRA). She is affiliated with the University’s Center for Christianity and Society, where she serves as Director of Conference and Event Planning and edits the series Grandi parole del cristianesimo (Edusc), dedicated to the Social Doctrine of the Church. She is a member of the Editorial Board and College of Authors of the Cardinal Van Thuân International Observatory on the Social Doctrine of the Church and also teaches at its online School of Social Doctrine. Savarese holds a Ph.D. and a Licentiate in Philosophy from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, as well as a Master’s degree in Philosophical Sciences from Roma Tre University. In 2024 she received the Marco Arosio Prize for her study Tre tipi di perdono interpersonale in Tommaso d’Aquino. Her research focuses particularly on Thomas Aquinas, forgiveness, social relations, and the Social Doctrine of the Church. Her publications include La nozione trascendentale di bello in Tommaso d’Aquino and, with Fr. Cristian Mendoza, Ordine e disordine sociali. Lo sviluppo umano integrale dai liberal all’opzione Benedetto.