Speakers and Moderators

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.

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.

Rodrigo Guerra López

Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America

Pontifical Commission for Latin America — Holy See

Rodrigo Guerra López is a Mexican philosopher and Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. He earned his doctorate in philosophy summa cum laude from the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein and is the founder of the Center for Advanced Social Research (CISAV). He has taught at several universities and has worked extensively in philosophical anthropology, social philosophy, bioethics, and Catholic social thought. He is an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Pontifical Academy for Life, and the author or co-author of numerous books and studies on the person, society, culture, and Christian thought.

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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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José Mauro del Sagrado Corazón González-Luna Mendoza

Lawyer, professor, author and former legislator

Independent researcher and author

José Mauro del Sagrado Corazón González-Luna Mendoza is a Mexican lawyer, professor, author, and former legislator. A graduate of the Escuela Libre de Derecho, he earned a master’s degree from Harvard University and was a member of the Harvard Institute for International Development. He has taught law at Universidad Panamericana, the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), and the Escuela Libre de Derecho, while also practicing law professionally. He served as an opposition member of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies during the LVI Legislature (1994–1997). A columnist and author, he has written works on the philosophy of law and international arbitration. Born in Mexico City in 1952 and a member of the González Luna family, he maintains a particular connection with Mexico’s twentieth-century intellectual, civic, and Catholic tradition.