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Anthony Schratz, History Specialist

Born in Montreal in 1952 and having lived there all his life, Anthony is the second of four children. He earned a B.A. at McGill university from 1969 to 1974. He then worked for two years (1974-1976) as a para-legal and then did a law degree at the University of Montreal. Anthony was received into the Bar as a lawyer in 1980. After working for a small firm in commercial litigation for a few years, he started his own firm in 1984, and currently specializes in the law of Charitable organizations and non-profit corporations.

Begininng in the early 1980s, Anthony began to do research in Church History, and over the past 20 years, he has developed a series of conferences on controversial issues in Church History. He has also acquired a sound knowledge of Theology and regularly give classes on Christian doctrine and talks on how to exercise the Christian virtues in daily life. Anthony gives these talks both at the McGill Newman Centre and at Riverview University Centre, where he is the Director. Riverview is a university centre in which the activities of doctrinal and spiritual formation are entrusted to the Opus Dei Prelature, of which Anthony is a member.