Meet the Team

Peter Budnik is the youngest grandchild of Wethersfield's founder, Chauncey Devereux Stillman. He received his undergraduate degree in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame. He is currently a practicing architect in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he lives with his wife and children.

John Henry Crosby is a translator, writer, critic, and cultural entrepreneur. He is president of the Hildebrand Project, which he co-founded in 2004 with his father John F. Crosby and with Alice von Hildebrand, to advance the legacy of Dietrich von Hildebrand and the tradition of Christian personalism. Having pursued a career in violin performance, he has a special interest in the role of beauty for human flourishing. He is a trustee of the Wethersfield Institute and the Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund. He is a graduate of Franciscan University, where he received his BA and MA in philosophy. He and his wife, Robin, live in Steubenville, Ohio with their four children.

Paul Monson is Vice President of Intellectual Formation & Academic Dean at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology (Wisconsin), where he also serves as Associate Professor of Church History. He received his BA in Catholic Studies from the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) and his doctorate in historical theology from Marquette University. He has a passion for the liberal arts in seminary formation, and his research focuses on the intersection of theology, history, and culture in American Catholicism. He has published over a dozen articles and book chapters, with appearances in Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, American Catholic Studies, and US Catholic Historian. With roots in North Dakota, he has called Cologne, Rome, and Los Angeles home. He now resides where his heart is, with his wife and daughters in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. 

Colleen Hutt is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s Program of Liberal Studies (Great Books), where she was formed in the Catholic intellectual tradition and developed a lifelong love for the enduring conversation between faith and culture. She has served the Church in parish ministry as a Director of Religious Education for Children in Venice, Florida, and as a Pastoral Associate for Adult Faith Formation in Whitefish Bay and Fox Point, Wisconsin.

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A native of Milwaukee, Colleen shares her vocation as wife and mother with her husband, Colin. Together they are blessed with five children, one grandchild, and eight godchildren. She currently serves as Director of Literary Evangelization for Well-Read Mom, a national literary movement, with more than 13,000 women nationwide. She is the co-author of The Well-Read Life: Nourish Your Soul Though Deep Reading and Intentional Friendship .Through her writing and speaking, Colleen travels throughout the country inviting people to encounter Christ through great books, beauty, and the ancient wisdom of the Church, helping them live their faith more deeply in the midst of modern life.

Fr Bob Cook, OFM Conv., is a Conventual Franciscan friar and the rector of the Basilica of Saint Josaphat in Milwaukee, WI.  He is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, Boston University School of Law, Washington Theological Union and Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology.  He has served as the pastor of a multi-church parish on Chicago’s Northside, Vice President of Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology, executive director of Marytown: The National Shrine of St Maximilian Kolbe,  director of Carrollton Hall at the Shrine of Saint Anthony in Ellicott City, MD and chaplain to the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago.