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Petroc Willey, STL, PhD

Petroc Willey, BD, PhD, STL, PhD, is married to Katherine and has four children: Charis, Benedict, Nicholas and David. He has been blessed with four grandchildren: granddaughters Miriam, Teresa, and Tirzah, and grandsons Joseph and Raphael.

He studied theology at King’s College, London, and philosophy at Liverpool University, where he received his doctorate. He later received his STL from the Pontifical University, Maynooth, in Ireland, and an ecclesiastical doctorate from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.

He worked in English Catholic higher education, in Oxford and in Birmingham, for more than twenty-five years, in seminary and lay institutions, and in both traditional and distance education. From 1985-1992, he was Lecturer in Christian Ethics at Plater College, Oxford. From 1992-2013, he worked at the Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, where he first directed the Master's Program and then went on to be Deputy Director and the Dean of Graduate Research. He then helped to establish a center of formation for the new evangelization: the School of the Annunciation, in Buckfast, England, where he was Reader in the New Evangelization, before moving to Franciscan University.

Appointed by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI as a Consultor for the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization in Rome, Petroc was also, for more than twenty years, editor of a journal for catechetical leaders, The Sower, which is now The Catechetical Review. He also hosted the Eternal Word Television Network's catechetical series, "Handing on the Faith."

He has authored numerous study texts in philosophy and theology at undergraduate and graduate levels as well as Become What You Are: The Call and Gift of Marriage (HarperCollins) with his wife, Katherine Willey. Recent publications include The Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Craft of Catechesis, which he co-authored with Barbara Morgan and Pierre de Cointet, and which has an introduction by Christoph Cardinal Schönborn (Ignatius Press); chapters in The Pedagogy of God: Its Centrality in Catechesis and Catechist Formation (eds. Caroline Farey, Sr M. Johanna Paruch and Waltraud Linnig, Emmaus Road); the chapter ‘The Catechism of the Catholic Church and the New Evangelization,’ in Paul Grogan and Kirsteen Kim’s (eds) book, The New Evangelization: Faith, People, Context and Practice (Bloomsbury T & T Clark); Reading the Catechism: How to discover and appreciate its riches (Catholic Truth Society); A Year with the Catechism: 365 Day Reading Plan, which he co-authored with Dominic Scotto, Donald Asci, and Elizabeth Siegel (Our Sunday Visitor); and Companion to the Directory for Catechesis, which he co-authored with Joseph White (Catholic Truth Society).

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