Most Rev. John M. D'Arcy has served as the bishop of the Fort Wayne-South Bend diocese for twenty one years. He began preparation for the priesthood in 1949 at Saint John's Seminary in Brighton , Mass. He was ordained to the priesthood in Boston , Mass. on February 2, 1957. He studied in Rome at the Angelicum from 1965 to 1968 and received his doctorate in spiritual theology in 1968. He served as spiritual director and professor of spiritual theology at Saint John's Seminary from 1968 to 1985. Bishop D'Arcy has a regular column each week in Today's Catholic, the Fort Wayne-South Bend diocesan newspaper.
Msgr. Lorenzo Albacate, a columnist for the New York Times, is a physicist by training. He holds the degree in Space Science and Applied Physics as well as a Master's Degree in Sacred Theology from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC . He holds a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas in Rome. He is co-founder and has been a professor at the John Paul II Institute in Washington, DC. He has taught at St. Joseph 's Seminary in Yonkers, NY, and from 1996 to 1997 served as President of the Catholic University of Portorico in Ponce. He is a columnist for the Italian weekly Tempi, has written for the New Yorker, and has been Advisor on Hispanic Affairs to the US National Council of Catholic Bishops. He is the Responsible of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation in the United States and Canada. Msgr. Albacete resides in Yonkers, NY.
Jude Dougherty is Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of America School of Philosophy. He has written or edited many books. His most recent books are Jacques Maritain: An Intellectual Profile (Catholic University of America Press, 2003) and Religion-Gesellschaft-Demokratie: Ausgewählte Aufsätze (Duncker & Humblot, 2003). Professor Dougherty has also written over 100 articles on topics in metaphysics, the philosophy of science, and social and political philosophy in English, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, and Polish philosophical journals and collections. Among Professor Dougherty's professional awards are honorary doctorates from The Catholic University of Lublin and Thomas More College. He was named a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by His Holiness John Paul II in 1999. Since 1971 Professor Dougherty has served as the editor of the important philosophical journal Review of Metaphysics. Professor Dougherty received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America.
Jean Bethke Elshtain is a political philosopher whose task has been to show the connections between our political and our ethical convictions. She received her Ph.D. in politics from Brandeis University in 1973 and then joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In 1988, she became the first woman to hold an endowed professorship in the history of Vanderbilt University. She was appointed to her current position at the University of Chicago in 1995 and has been a visiting professor at Oberlin College, Yale University, and Harvard University. Professor Elshtain was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. Her books include Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought, Meditations on Modern Political Thought, and Democracy on Trial. She has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, a Scholar in Residence for the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference and Study Center in Como, Italy, and a Guggenheim Fellow. She is the recipient of the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for excellence in classroom teaching--the highest award for undergraduate teaching at Vanderbilt. She served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and is on the Board of Trustees of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. She also serves on the Board of the Illinois Humanities Council. Elshtain is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture.
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. holds full professorships at both Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University and is a member of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy. He is the editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, co-editor of Christian Bioethics, co-editor of the Philosophy and Medicine book series with over sixty volumes in print, co-editor of the book series Clinical Medical Ethics, and editor of the series Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. Engelhardt has authored over two hundred fifty articles and chapters of books in addition to numerous book reviews and other publications. There have been over one hundred twenty reprintings or translations of his publications. He has also co-edited more than 25 volumes and has lectured widely throughout the world. His books include Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common Morality and the second, thoroughly revised edition of The Foundations of Bioethics, which has appeared in Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. A Chinese translation of Bioethics and Secular Humanism appeared in 1998. His most recent work is The Foundations of Christian Bioethics, which appeared in the summer of 2000. Engelhardt is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture.
Jorge L.A. Garcia joined the philosophy faculty of Boston College in 2000. He received his B.A. from Fordham and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1980. Since then, he has taught at the University of Notre Dame, Georgetown University, Rutgers, and Boston College . His interests include ethics, the history of moral theory, and Black philosophy. He has authored “Topics in the New Natural Law Theory," American Journal of Jurisprudence; "Lies and the Vices of Deception," Faith and Philosophy; and “Liberal Theory, Human Freedom, and the Politics of Sexual Morality” in Religion and Contemporary Liberalism. His book, The Heart of Racism: Essays on Diversity, Race, and Relativism, which deals with virtues as the basis of moral theory, is forthcoming and will be published by Rowman & Littlefield. Garcia is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture.
Paul Griffiths was born in England in 1955, and lived there until 1980. Since 1980 he has lived mostly in the USA , and became a US citizen in 1994. He was educated in English grammar schools, and at the University of Oxford , where he received a B.A. (first class honors) in Theology (1978), and an M.Phil in Classical Indian Religion & Sanskrit (1980). In 1983 he was awarded a Ph.D in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and since then he has held faculty positions at several American universities, including the University of Notre Dame, the University of Chicago , and the University of Illinois at Chicago , where since 2000 he has held the Schmitt Chair in Catholic Studies. He has published six books as sole author and seven more as co-author or editor. The most recent are Reason and the Reasons of Faith [co-edited with Reinhard Hütter of Duke University] (T. & T. Clark, 2005), Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity (Brazos, 2004), and Problems of Religious Diversity (Blackwell, 2001). He has also published many scholarly articles, translations, book reviews, and so on. In a more popular vein he also writes and reviews frequently for Catholic journals of opinion (First Things, Commonweal, inter alia). Recent essays include: "Theology as a Science" (First Things 2006), "Goodbye, Naipaul" (Commonweal, 2005), "Christ and Critical Theory" (First Things 2004), "Why Catholics Shouldn't Vote" (Commonweal 2004), and "Orwell for Christians" (First Things, 2004). He is at the moment working on three books: (1) The Vice of Curiosity: An Essay on the Nature of Intellectual Appetite; (2) A Christian commentary on the Vijñaptimatratasiddhi; (3) How Catholics Think: An Essay on Intellectual Style.
Kevin Hart is professor of Philosophy and English and a fellow of the Nanovic Institute of European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne and presently studies poetry, religious literature, and the interconnections between philosophy and literature. He has authored The Trespass of the Sign (CUP, 1990), A.D. Hope (OUP, 1993), Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property (CUP, 1999), Post-Modernism: A Beginner's Guide (Oxford: Oneworld 2004) and The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred (Chicago University Press 2004). His seventh collection of poetry was titled Flame Tree: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2001) and his most recent collection, Young Rain, is under review with Knopf. He is completing editorial work on Counter-Experiences: Reading Jean-Luc Marion (forthcoming 2007). Hart is the recipient of the NSW and Victorian Premier's Awards for Poetry, the Christopher Brennan Award, and the Wesley Michel Wright Award. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
James Hitchcock is Professor of History at Saint Louis University, a position he has held since 1971. Among Professor Hitchcock's many books is a two-volume study, The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, which was published in 2004. His scholarly articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, Catholic Historical Review, the Bulletin of the Institute for Historical Research, and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Professor Hitchcock has also written popular articles for the New York Times Magazine, Commentary, Commonweal, National Review, New Oxford Review, and many other journals. Among Professor Hitchcock's professional awards are the Cardinal Wright Award from the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars and the Frederic Ozanam Award from the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. Since 1990 Professor Hitchcock has served as the senior editor of Touchstone. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1965.
Russell Hittinger is the William K. Warren Professor of Catholic Studies in the Department of Religion and Philosophy, at the University of Tulsa, where he is also a Research Professor in the School of Law . He has taught at Fordham University and at the Catholic University of America, and has taught as a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, New York University, Charles University in Prague, and at the Pontifical Università Regina Apostolorum in Rome, where he currently teaches and directs dissertations. Since 2001, he is a member of the Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis (Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas), to which he was elected a full member (ordinarius) in 2004. He was elected to the consilium or governing board of the Academy in 2006. The theological, metaphysical, and anthropological foundations of natural law theory remain Professor Hittinger's abiding interest in the areas of teaching and research. This, of course, includes study and teaching of the secunda pars of Thomas's Summa theologiae . Since 2000, Professor Hittinger has turned his attention to the evolution of papal political theology and social doctrine. Having published several pieces of this work in this line of research, he is finishing a book that provides a synoptic narrative, entitled The Popes and the Desacralized Caesar: Roman Theories of the Modern State 1800-2000 . In 2003, to mark the centenary of the death of Pope Leo, Professor Hittinger gave a lecture to Ministry of Culture of the Italian Government. In 2004 he gave “Secularity and the Anthropological Problem,” as the Inaugural Claude Ryan Lecture in Catholic Social Thought, McGill University in Montreal . In December 2006, he will address the President, Prime Minister, and Speakers of the Polish Parliament in the Royal Castle in Warsaw. His keynote address will culminate a week-long celebration of human rights and the Polish constitution. His many honors include the Josephine Yalch Zekan Award for the best scholarly article in faith and law and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for university teachers. Hittinger was a Visiting Fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture in Fall, 2000 where he researched the development of papal views of modern political, legal, and cultural liberties from the French Revolution to the present day. He also serves as a member of the Center's Board of Advisors.
Alasdair MacIntyre has written widely in philosophy since his first book, Marxism: An Interpretation , appeared in 1953. He has taught at Oxford University, Princeton University, Brandeis University, Boston University, Wellesley College, Vanderbilt University, Duke University, and the University of Notre Dame. In 1989 he was a Luce Visiting Scholar at the Whitney Humanities Center of Yale University. He has also served as President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. Professor MacIntyre is the author of over thirty books, including the influential triumvirate of recent works: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition . He has made prominent contributions to the history of philosophy, moral philosophy, political theory, philosophy of the social sciences, and philosophy of religion. He recently published an examination of the philosophical work of Edith Stein set against the background of twentieth century phenomenology entitled Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922, as well as two volumes of his collected papers, The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays and Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays.
Rev. Wilson Miscamble, CSC, has been a member of the history faculty at Notre Dame since 1988. The Australian native graduated from the University of Queensland in Brisbane in 1973 and did further graduate study before coming to Notre Dame to pursue a doctorate in history, which he received in 1980. He returned to Australia and worked as an analyst in the Office of National Assessments in the Prime Minister's Department for two years before making his way back to Notre Dame to join the Congregation of Holy Cross. He earned his M.Div. in 1987 and was ordained a priest in 1988. From 2000-2004, he served as rector of Moreau Seminary at Notre Dame. Fr. Miscamble's research and teaching interests include American foreign policy during and immediately after World War II, and Catholics and American Foreign Policy in the 20th Century. He has published numerous articles and books, including George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950 ( Princeton , 1992), which received the Harry S. Truman Book Award. He is also the co-editor of American Political History: Essays on the State of the Discipline (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997). In addition to his work in history, Fr. Miscamble has researched and published several articles on Catholic higher education, including "Meeting the Challenge and Fulfilling the Promise: Mission and Method in Constructing a Great Catholic University," which appeared in The Challenge and Promise of a Catholic University by president emeritus of Notre Dame Fr. Theodore Hesburgh.
Joseph Pearce is a Writer in Residence and an Associate Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University. He has written or edited over 15 books. Three of Professor Pearce's most recent books are Literary Giants, Literary Catholics (Ignatius Press, 2005), Unafraid of Virginia Woolf: the Friends and Enemies of Roy Campbell (ISI Books, 2004), and The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde (Ignatius Press, 2004). Professor Pearce's articles have appeared in many of the leading political and ethical journals in the United States and around the world, including National Review, First Things, National Catholic Register, and Review of Politics. He is Co-Editor of the Saint Austin Review, and Editor in Chief of Sapientia Press. In recent years Professor Pearce has taught courses on Tolkien, Medieval Literature and Typology, Lyric Poetry, G.K. Chesterton, and many other topics. Professor Pearce regularly speaks at conferences in England, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Canada, South Africa, and across the United States on a variety of literary topics.
Paul Sigmund is Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton University. He did his undergraduate work at Georgetown and graduate work at Harvard where he taught for 4 years before moving to Princeton. He has published 19 books and over 200 articles on political theory and Latin American politics, including Natural Law in Political Thought, St. Thomas Aquinas on Ethics and Politics, Liberation Theology at the Crossroads, and The United States and Democracy in Chile. His most recent books are Religious Freedom and Evangelization in Latin America and The Selected Poltiical Writings of John Locke.
Steven Smith is the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Law and Philosophy at the University of San Diego, a position he has held since 2002. Prior to that Professor Smith was the Robert and Marion Short Professor at the Notre Dame Law School from 1998-2002. His most recent books include Law's Quandary (Harvard University Press 2004) and Getting Over Equality: A Critical Diagnosis of Religious Freedom in America (NYU Press, 2001). Professor Smith has written numerous articles in leading law reviews and political and ethical journals over the last twenty years. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979. Professor Smith is the father of five children and enjoys music, reading, hiking, and sports.
