Plenary Speaker Dr. Denis McNamara will speak to the Church Music Association at Colloquium XXIV at 11 a.m.  July 2 with an address entitled Liturgical Art and Architecture: The Essential Questions.

McNamara is assistant director and faculty member at the Liturgical Institute of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake, a graduate program in Liturgical Studies founded by Cardinal Francis George of Chicago in the year 2000, where he teaches courses on the Liturgical Movement, Liturgical Art and Architecture, Liturgical Inculturation, and Sacramental Aesthetics. He holds a BA in the History of Art from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Architectural History from the University of Virginia, where he concentrated his research on the study of ecclesiastical architecture of the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

Dr. McNamara makes a specialty of bridging the gap between the