Profiles

Mark Franzen is the inaugural director of St. Gregory’s Hall, a parish-based Catholic Cultural Center on Chicago’s North Side. Before helping to found St. Gregory’s Hall, he managed projects at the Lumen Christi Institute, a Catholic intellectual apostolate serving the University of Chicago. In this edited conversation, Franzen discusses how a 2023 Vital Worship, Vital Preaching grant helped Catholics from many cultures encounter God through sacred music.