Mike Aertgeets is a former educator for Los Angeles County in California. He attended the Machelen seminary in Belgium as a young man. He has traveled throughout Africa and Latin America and has lived in the United Stated for the last 50 years. In his years as a devout and practicing Catholic, he has seen the decline in popularity of the Catholic Church around the world. He is an ardent critic of the centuries-old practices of the Vatican establishment and currently is a proponent of new ideas for the Church.