Figge is an MBA student at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. He has done freelance writing for The Pillar, National Catholic Register, OSV News, America Magazine and several diocesan newspapers.
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Toni Rowland, with her late husband, Chris, is coordinator and founder of MARFAM — Marriage and Family Life Renewal Ministry in South Africa. Toni has a 50-year history as a music minister, catechist and family minister having developed a program for parish family ministry while employed at the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference.
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