Ed Condon
Ed Condon is the co-founder and editor of The Pillar.
Before co-founding The Pillar in 2021, he worked as the DC editor of the Catholic News Agency and was an associate editor of the Catholic Herald. His journalistic work has appeared in publications including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Washington Examiner, the Spectator, the Bulwark, First Things, as well as several academic and legal journals.
Ed is also a practicing canon lawyer, having worked in dioceses across three continents and the Holy See. Previously he spent nearly ten years working in professional politics in the United Kingdom.
Father Craig Vasek (born 1983) was ordained in 2010 as a priest for the Diocese of Crookston.
He entered seminary formation and graduated in 2006 from Cardinal Muench Seminary and North Dakota State University with a Bachelor degree in Philosophy and Humanities. He studied at the Pontifical North American College in Vatican City, obtaining both a Baccalaureate (2009) and Licentiate (2011) in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Upon returning to the Diocese of Crookston, and serving in multiple parishes, Father also obtained a Masters in Psychology (2020) from the Institute for the Psychological Sciences of Divine Mercy University, Arlington,Virginia.
Father Vasek spent the past four years serving at the University of Mary in Bismarck,
North Dakota as the Chaplain of Athletics and Program Director of the Institute for Virtue in
Sport, serving as a faculty member with a dual enrollment in the School of Behavior Sciences as
well as the Catholic Studies Program within the School of Arts and Sciences.
Father Vasek has worked extensively as a retreat director for the Missionaries of Charity of
Saint Teresa of Calcutta in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. He has produced works on
the topics of Scripture and the Spiritual Life, hosted an evangelism ministry through a blog and
podcast called Evangelical Disciple, and is a host for various shows on Real Presence Radio.
Most recently, Father Vasek has been appointed to the United States Conference of Catholic
Bishops as a Specialist for the National Eucharistic Revival, serving on the Committee for
Evangelization and Catechesis. He was also appointed as one of 50 National Eucharistic
Preachers for the Revival.
