Deacon Mike is the Director of Young Adult Ministry and the Office of Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations in the Cleveland Diocese.  He holds a Master's Degree from Fordham University and started out as a Radio Producer in New York City where he's from originally.  
Deacon Mike is the host of 5 Questions with the Paulists and is the author of two books.  He is married to Marion and they live in Lakewood, OH with their dog Vito.
He's authored two books and served as an advisor to the USCCB and to the Vatican.

Father Damian Ference is a priest of the diocese of Cleveland.  He serves at Borromeo Seminary in Wickliffe, Ohio as Director of Human Formation and Assistant Professor of Philosophy.

Father Ference graduated from Borromeo Seminary/John Carroll University in 1998, and after earning his M.A. and M.Div. from Saint Mary Seminary and Graduate School of Theology he was ordained for the diocese of Cleveland in 2003.  He served as parochial vicar at St. Mary Parish in Hudson, Ohio from 2003-2007.  In 2009 he earned his licentiate in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.  Ference has been part of the formation faculty at Borromeo Seminary since 2009.  He is the founder and director of {TOLLE LEGE} Summer Institute and is a lifetime member of the Flannery O’Connor Society.