Speculum Iustitiae 2025 Conference Event Details
The Speculum Iustitiae 2025 Conference for Canon and Civil Lawyers took place August 6-7, 2025.
Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe
5250 Justin Road
La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601
Schedule
Tuesday, August 6
7:30 A.M. Check in/Breakfast in Culina Mariana Café
8:30 A.M. Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 A.M. The Very Reverend Markus Graulich, S.D.B. - “Who Can Be Ordained? Requirements, Prerequisites, Irregularities, and Impediments for Holy Orders”
10:00 A.M. Question and Answer Session
10:15 A.M. Break
10:30 A.M. Phyllis A. Sower - “The Ownership and Administration of Temporal Goods – Where Canon Law and Civil Law Conflict and Some Solutions”
11:30 A.M. Question and Answer Session
11:45 A.M. Prepare for Holy Mass
12:15 P.M. Holy Mass
1:15 P.M. Lunch
2:15 P.M. Dr. Michael Joseph Mazza - “Memoranda of Understanding: Civil Intrusions on the Ius Nativum of the Church to Assign and Discipline Her Clergy.”
3:15 P.M. Question and Answer Session
3:30 P.M. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Rosary
4:00 P.M. Evening Prayer and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
4:45 P.M. Departure to the Radisson Hotel
5:30 P.M. Preprandial Social
6:00 P.M. Dinner followed by the Question and Answer Panel Discussion
Wednesday, August 7
7:30 A.M. Breakfast in Culina Mariana Café
9:00 A.M. Professor William L. Daniel - “The Judicial Protection of Priestly Ministry in the Jurisprudence of the Apostolic Signatura”
10:00 A.M. Question and Answer Session
10:15 A.M. Break
10:30 A.M. His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke - “Some Obligations and Rights of Pastors, Parochial Vicars, Rectors of Churches, and Chaplains”
11:30 A.M. Question and Answer Session and Closing Remarks
11:55 A.M. Prepare for Holy Mass
12:15 P.M. Holy Mass
1:15 P.M. Lunch in Culina Mariana Café
Letter of Good Standing
The Diocese of La Crosse has asked that we have all visiting priests or deacons send a letter of suitability to the diocese if they desire to exercise ministry at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Letters need to be received at the Diocese of La Crosse and the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe at least five (5) days in advance of exercising ministry at the Shrine.
Teresa Brown, Director of Safe Environment, is the contact for the Holy Cross Diocesan Center. Ruben Mendoza, Pilgrimage Coordinator, is the contact for the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Please attach a copy of the letter of suitability in an email addressing each contact noted below. Thank you.
Please include the following:
- Affirmation of good moral character and reputation.
- Affirmation of qualification for this ministry.
- Affirmation of background and suitability to work with minor children.
- Completion of annual Safe Environment training.
- Completion of Child Protection training.
- Completion of Safe Environment background check.
Emails:
Diocese of La Crosse: Teresa Brown, tbrown@diolc.org
Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe:
Fr. Zachary Edgar, Director of Sacred Liturgy zedgar@guadalupeshrine.org
Steven Doll, Manager of Pilgrim Services sdoll@guadalupeshrine.org