Joseph Amato – Dr. Amato is Professor of Intellectual and Cultural History and Rural and Regional Studies at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota. Among more than a dozen books, he has written Guilt and Gratitude, Victims and Values, Ethics: Living and Dead?, Dust: A History of the Small and Invisible, Rethinking Home: A Case for Local History, and Bypass: A Memoir.

Robert John Araujo, SJ – Fr. Araujo has served as Professor of Law at Gonzaga University and as attaché to the Permanent Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations. His articles on international law have appeared in such journals as the St. Thomas Law Review, Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, Ave Maria Law Review, Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law, Fordham Urban Law Review, Catholic University Law Review, Fordham Journal of International Law, and the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law.

Benedict M. Ashley, OP has doctorates in philosophy and political science, and the post-doctoral decree of Master of Sacred Theology conferred by an international Order of Preachers. He is the author of 24 books and over 185 articles. He has been honored with the medal Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice conferred by Pope John Paul II.

David Berger – Dr. Berger is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the German periodical Doctor Angelicus. He has published articles in such journals as Angelicum, Divinitas, and Gregorianum. He is the author of numerous books, including Thomismus, Thomas von Aquin begegnen, and Thomas von Aquins Summa theologiae.

Louis de Bonald (1754-1840) was, in the words of Lamartine, "the most noble and pure face that the Old Regime was able to turn towards the New." Farmer and statesman, paterfamilias and publicist, Bonald is know for his spirited defense of the Christian social order from the rostrum of the French Chamber of Deputies under the Bourbon Restoration and in his many essays and books, especially his "Theory of Political and Religious Power" (1796) and "On Divorce" (1801).

Dennis Bonnette is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Niagara University in Lewiston, New York. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1970. In addition to numerous scholarly articles, he is the author of Aquinas’ Proofs for God’s Existence. He is a member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. is the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society, Fordham University, and Professor Emeritus, The Catholic University of America. He is an internationally known theologian and lecturer, the author of twenty-two books and 800 articles on theological topics. He is the past President of both the Catholic Theological Society of America and the American Theological Society. Cardinal Dulles has served on the International Theological Commission (1992-97) and as a member of the United States Lutheran/Roman Catholic Dialogue (1972-93). Since 1992, he has served continuously as a consultant to the Committee on Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He was created a Cardinal of the Catholic Church in Rome on February 21, 2001 by Pope John Paul II, the first American-born theologian who is not a bishop to receive this honor.

Gilles Emery, OP, is a priest of the Swiss Dominican province and professor of dogmatic theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He has authored La Trinité créatrice (Vrin) and La théologie trinitaire de saint Thomas d’Aquin (Cerf), and has edited Thomas d’Aquin, Traités: Les raisons de la foi, les articles de la foi. He has co-edited Le Christianisme est-il un monotheisme? He serves on the editorial board of Revue thomiste. He is a member of the Pontifical Theological Commission, to which he was appointed by Pope John Paul II.

Mary Ann Glendon is Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. She teaches and writes on international human rights, comparative law, and constitutional issues. She is the author of many books including Rights Talk, A Nation Under Lawyers, and most recently A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

John Hardon, SJ – Fr. Hardon earned his doctorate in theology from the Gregorian University and taught at the Jesuit School of Theology at Loyola University in Chicago and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Catholic Doctrine at St. John’s University in New York. He organized the Marian Catechists, whose purpose is to promote the solid teaching of the Catholic faith to the laity. He wrote and published more than 50 books, including Catholic Catechism, Modern Catholic Dictionary, Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan, and Father Hardon’s Catholic Prayer Book.

Peter Hodgson has lectured on and tutored physics and mathematics in the University of Oxford for forty years, and has been engaged on research in experimental and theoretical nuclear physics for over fifty years. He was a member of the Council of Atomic Scientists’ Association from 1952-59 and edited its journal from 1953-55. He has written about sixteen books and three hundred research papers and is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and the Institute of Physics. He is the President of the Science Secretariat of Pax Romana, and recently served as a consultant to the Pontifical Consilium for Cultures.

Daniel Keating is Associate Professor of Theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan. He studied at the University of Michigan, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, and received his doctorate in Theology from Oxford University. He is the author of numerous articles and books including The Appropriation of Divine Life in Cyril of Alexandria, Aquinas on Scripture: An Introduction to his Biblical Commentaries, Aquinas on Doctrine: A Critical Introduction. He is also co-editor of The Theology of Cyril of Alexandria: A Critical Appreciation and editor of the St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Colossians, translated by Fabian Larcher.

Steven Long teaches metaphysics and natural law in the school of graduate theology at Ave Maria University, where he is an associate professor. He received his PhD in philosophy from the Catholic University of America, after studying overseas at Leuven, Belgium. He has published numerous articles in peer review journals of philosophy and theology, lectures widely in the United States and Europe, and awaits the imminent publication of two other forthcoming books. He now resides with his wife Anna Maria and their five children in Naples, Florida.

John Lucal, SJ – Fr. Lucal has served in the Permanent Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations. Since then he has served as an editor of America and has taught at Georgetown University. He is presently engaged in pastoral ministry and Christian-Muslim dialogue in Ankara, Turkey.

Guy Mansini, OSB – Fr. Mansini is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Saint Meinrad Seminary. He also serves as full-time pastor of St. Isidore Church in Bristow, IN and Holy Cross Church in St. Croix, IN. A Benedictine monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, Fr. Mansini earned his doctorate from the Gregorian University and has most recently co-edited Ethics and Theological Disclosures: The Thought of Robert Sokolowski.

Louis A. Markosreceived his doctorate from the University of Michigan and is a professor in English at Houston Baptist University. He is a C. S. Lewis scholar and the author of Lewis Agonistes: How C. S. Lewis Can Train Us to Wrestle with the Modern & Postmodern World (Broadman & Holman) and The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis (a lecture series from The Teaching Company). His book, From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics, is due out from InterVarsity Press in 2007. Markos has spoken widely all over the US and Oxford on topics ranging from C. S. Lewis to ancient Greece and Rome to Romantic and Victorian poetry.

Fr. Francis Martin holds the Cardinal Adam Maida Chair of Biblical Studies at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit. Author of sixty scholarly articles and over eight books, Fr. Martin has also written many popular articles and spoken at over 400 conferences and retreats. .Among his recent books are The Feminist Question and The Fire in the Cloud. He is the editor of the Acts of the Apostles volume in the Ancient Christian Commentary Series.

Regis Martin – Dr. Martin is Professor of Theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He specializes in dogmatic theology and in particular on the thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar and the world of the Catholic literary revival. Author of a number of books, including The Last Things and Garlands of Grace (both published by Ignatius Press), he is married and is the father of ten children.

Peter Milward, SJ – Fr. Milward has authored three books, Shakespeare the Papist, A Lifetime with Hopkins, and A Poetic Approach to Ecology with Sapientia Press. He is Professor Emeritus at Sophia University in Tokyo, and has delivered lectures at leading institutions around the world. He is particularly known for his groundbreaking work on Catholic themes in Shakespeare’s plays. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1943 and earned his degree in English Literature from Oxford in 1954. He taught English literature at Sophia University from 1962-1996 and then at Tokyo Junshin Women’s College, as dean of the faculty of Modern Culture, from 1996-2002. He is the founder of the Renaissance Centre at Sophia University, and is the author of numerous books in Japanese and in English.

Charles Morerod, OP is Dean of Philosophy and Professor of Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome (Angelicum). He belongs to the Anglican Roman-Catholic International Commission (ARCIC II) and to the Mixed International Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. He is the director of the French edition of Nova et Vetera.

Aidan Nichols, OP entered the Dominican Order in 1970. He presently holds the John Paul II Memorial Visiting Lectureship in Roman Catholic Theology at Oxford University. He is the author of over thirty books including The Shape of Catholic Theology, Scribe of the Kingdom, and Beyond the Blue Grass.

Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences – Edited by Edmond Malinvaud and Margaret S. Archer, Work and Human Fulfillment is the fruit of three plenary sessions (1996, 1997, and 1999) of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, which was established by Pope John Paul II in 1994.

David Williams studied at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto and took his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Toronto. He is Professor Emeritus at McGill University in Montreal where he was the Kennedy Smith Professor of Catholic Studies and Professor of English. His publications, in English and French, include books and articles on Beowulf, Chaucer, Alexander the Great, Flannery O’Connor, and other mediaeval subjects. His book, Deformed Discourse: the function of the Monster in Mediaeval Thought and Literature, received the Raymond Klibansky Award for the Most Outstanding Book in the Humanities (1997-98). He now teaches at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida.