Fr. Michael E. Connors, CSC, is director of the John S. Marten Program in Homiletics and Liturgics, as well as a faculty member in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He was ordained a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1984.

Connors earned a bachelor's degree from Illinois College, a master of divinity degree from Notre Dame, and a doctorate in theology from Regis College at the Toronto School of Theology. He is a past president of the Catholic Association of Teachers of Homiletics and a member of the Academy of Homiletics, the Catholic Theological Society of America, and the College Theology Society.