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Lucy Acedo studied Philosophy at Universidad Panamericana campus CDMX, Mexico, and received her PhD from the University of Navarra. She also received a Master in Educational Sciences from the Rome campus of the University of Navarra and received her Licentiate in Theology at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce in Rome. She received her doctorate in Sacred Theology from the same university. She has several publications in Philosophy, Educational Sciences and Theology. She is particularly interested in the relationship between Philosophy and Theology, and – within the latter – Sacramental Theology, as well as the educational lines of both sciences, how these supreme sciences can be taught, and how the unity of knowledge can be achieved from any discipline.

Bartosz Adamski (Poland) is a Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Toruń. He graduated from the University of Navarra in Pamplona and holds a Doctorate in Theology. His theological research focuses on the theme of divine and human freedom in the thought of St Thomas Aquinas and Thomas Talbott, with additional interests in ecclesiology and the relationship between religion and science. Currently, he serves as the prefect of the propaedeutic stage at the Major Seminary in Toruń and has been appointed as a lecturer in Dogmatic Theology at the Faculty of Theology of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.

Fr. Francis Adedara is a Catholic Priest of the Catholic Diocese of Ilorin, Nigeria. He was ordained a Priest August 15, 1992 and studied at University of St. Mary of the Lake, Mundelein for Licentiate in Theology (1999), and studied at Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, Florida for a PhD in Systematic Theology (2011). He is an adjunct professor of Theology at the Dominican Institute, Ibadan, Nigeria, and a lecturer and the current Academic Dean at the Seminary of Ss. Peter and Paul in Ibadan, Nigeria. His research Interests include: Augustinian Thoughts and Theology, Thomistic Philosophy and Theology, Thoughts and Writings of Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI), Trinitarian Theology, Christology, and Contemporary Issues in Religion.

Fr. Adrian Adiredjo, O.P. is a Dominican priest who was a Rector of Universitas Katolik Darma Cendika, Surabaya, Indonesia. Currently, he teaches systematic theology at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila. His field of interest is Pneumatology, Christology and Ecclesiology.

Sameer Advani, L.C., S.T.D. is a theologian specializing in the thought of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, the theology of religions, and the relationship between faith, culture, and evangelization in the contemporary world. At the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, he serves as Associate Professor of Dogmatic Theology and Professor of Ecclesiology in the Faculty of Theology. He is also Director of the ‘Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Research Chair’; Co-Director of the Research Line ‘Dialogue and Evangelization in Postmodern Culture,’ and a Researcher at the ‘UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights’ at said university. For more information and select publications see: https://www.upra.org/en/sameer-advani/

Fr. Agbali, O.P. is a Nigerian Dominican priest who studied philosophy and theology. He holds a doctorate in theology from Angelicum and he currently teaches philosophy and theology at Dominican University in Nigeria. His area of interest is human nature and sexuality.

Fr. Michael Agliardo, S.J. has worked on issues related to the Church in China for the last twenty years. Currently he is the director of Church Life Asia, a program of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a sociologist with a focus on religion in society and environmental issues. He holds a concurrent appointment in the department of sociology at Notre Dame and is working on a volume for Brill on Laudato si’ seen through the prism of the Church’s global mission.

Fr. Akinwale, O.P., a Catholic priest of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), is a renowned Professor of Systematic Theology and Thomistic Philosophy. He has over three decades of experience in academic leadership. He was the pioneer Vice-Chancellor of Dominican University, Ibadan from 2017 to 2022 and has served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Augustine University since 2023.

Dr. Rudy Albino de Assunção is an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Program in Systematic Theology at the Italian-Brazilian University Center (Brazil). In addition, he is a research Associate at the Ratzinger Center at La Sabana University (Colombia). Dr. Albino de Assunção is also a translator and lecturer who specializes in the works of Ratzinger-Benedict XVI. He is a candidate for permanent deacon.

Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Fr. Ken was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 2015 for the Archdiocese of Abuja. He completed his graduate studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and joined the faculty of the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology in 2025, where he serves as Director of Church Life Africa. In this role, he shares his time between the United States and Nigeria – teaching and mentoring students, while leading Augustine Institute’s global mission in Africa (churchlifeafrica.org). https://www.augustineinstitute.org/faculty-and-staff/rev-kenneth-onyema-amadi

Khaled Anatolios is interested in all aspects of the theology of the early Church, with special emphases on the Trinitarian, Christological, and soteriological doctrines of the Greek fathers and Augustine; early Christian biblical exegesis; and the development of theological methodology in Patristic and medieval theology. He has published on a variety of early Christian theologians including Irenaeus, Origen, Athanasius, Augustine, and Gregory of Nyssa. A particular focus of his work is the engagement between early Christian theological reflection and contemporary theological concerns.

As a Research Professor in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, Kenny Ang teaches and researches medieval Trinitarian theology. Having earned his Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the same institution, his work primarily focuses on the theology of Peter Lombard and Thomas Aquinas, the connection between the Trinity and creatures, and the broader field of Biblical Thomism. Currently, he is also investigating how Aquinas’s principles can provide a framework for understanding the development of artificial intelligence. His CV is available at https://www.fatherkenny.com/en/cv.

Dr. Antonia is a professor and researcher of ethics at Universidad Anáhuac México in Mexico City. Her current research focuses on the moral authority of individuals and organizations in relation to the exercise of personal virtue. Her doctoral thesis at the University of Notre Dame centered on a concept of “audacious prudence” in the writings of Spanish cardinal Enrique Vicente y Tarancón. Dr. Antonio grew up in southern California and entered the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi in 1997. After living in Monterrey, Mexico; Rome, Italy; and various parts of the US, she now calls Mexico City her home. Her Linkedin profile can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/melicia-antonio/.

Juan Pablo Aranda Vargas is a political theorist. His research focuses on the study of theopolitical phenomena, specifically the relationship between liberal (and postliberal) democracy and Christian social thought. At UPAEP he directs the Institute for the Promotion of the Common Good. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto.

María Claudia Arboleda Piedrahita is a Colombian and Spanish Catholic theologian who holds a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Navarra. She teaches in the Master’s Program in Theology at the University of La Sabana, Colombia, and has previously taught at universities in Spain and Chile. Her research focuses on the theology of tenderness, moral and spiritual theology, theological anthropology, and Catholic social teaching. She is particularly interested in how tenderness, beauty, embodiment, and human relationships illuminate the dignity of the person and the Church’s mission in contemporary culture.

Cardinal Anders Arborelius was born in 1949 in Sorengo in Switzerland but spent his childhood in Lund, Sweden, and converted to Catholicism in November 1969 in Malmö. He entered the Carmelite monastery in Norraby 1971 and took perpetual vows in Bruges, Belgium, in 1977. Anders Arborelius was ordained a priest on September 8, 1979 in Malmö. He has a Master of Arts in modern languages – English, Spanish and German – from Lund University and has studied Theology and Philosophy in Bruges and Rome. In Rome, he obtained a Licentiate in Spirituality from the Carmelite Pontifical Theological Faculty. Anders Arborelius was appointed bishop of Stockholm by Pope John Paul II on November 17, 1998, and he was ordained a bishop on December 29, 1998 at St. Erik’s Catholic Cathedral in Stockholm by Bishop Hubertus Brandenburg. He is the first Swedish cardinal. Cardinal Arborelius is a member of the Dicastery for the Clergy, the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches and the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity in the Holy See. Since 2020 he is also a member of the Vatican’s Council for the Economy. In July 2022 Cardinal Arborelius was appointed to the Dicastery for Bishops. In June 2022 Cardinal Arborelius was awarded His Majesty the King’s medal for “significant contributions to Swedish and international church life”. https://www.katolskakyrkan.se/cardinal-anders-arborelius

Fr. Arroyo is a priest of Opus Dei, ordained in 2002. That same year, he also defended his doctoral thesis, titled “Knowledge of Principles in Aristotle’s Ethics,” at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. Since 2019, he has been a professor of Theology at the Universidad Panamericana. His areas of interest include the dialogue between science and faith, as well as the dialogue between faith and culture.

Pablo Arteaga holds a Ph.D. in Dogmatic Theology (S.T.D.) from the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome). His research focuses on pneumatology, eschatology, and theological anthropology. He serves as Director of the Bachelor’s Degree in Theology, combining academic research, teaching, theological outreach, and pastoral ministry in Santiago de Chile. https://teologia.uc.cl/en/who-we-are/academic-profiles/pablo-arteaga/

Juan Assirio holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Navarra (Spain) and a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership and School Management from Centro Universitario Villanueva (Madrid). He has over twenty-five years of experience in academic leadership and has served as Director of the Bachelor’s Degree Program in Educational Organization and Management at Universidad Austral (Argentina) since 2018. His research interests include philosophy of education, the anthropology of human relationships, and character education. From 2023 to 2025, he served as principal investigator of a project on the anthropology of human relationships funded by the John Templeton Foundation. He is the author of *Paternidad y filiación en Leonardo Polo* (Sindéresis, Madrid, 2022) and has been a visiting professor at universities in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, and Peru. He is married and has six children. For further information, please visit his institutional profile: https://www.austral.edu.ar/investigadores/assirio-juan/?unidad=escuela-de-educacion

Dr. Ayres studied in the UK, and has taught in Ireland, in the US, in the UK, and in Rome. He is interested broadly in Patristic Theology, especially Christology, Trinitarian theology, and exegesis. He is also interested in modern Catholic ressourcement, the theology of tradition and the relationship between Scriptural interpretation, historical theology, and dogmatics.

Fr. Ziqiang Bai, O.P. has a Ph.D in philosophy (CUHK) and S.T.D in dogmatic theology (UST, Manila). He was born in Hebei, China. He studied for quite a number of years in the Philippines. While his research project in theology was about St. Thomas Aquinas’s relational account of the Trinity’s being and mission, his philosophical research at The Chinese University of Hong Kong gave a virtue ethics reading of the Zhuangzi’s account of human life and furtherdemonstrated how the Zhuangzi’s virtue ethics can contribute to the Neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of St. Joseph Macau.

Michael Patrick Barber is Professor of Sacred Scripture and Theology at the Augustine Institute Graduate School (Florissant, MO). He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and publications, including The Bible and the Anointing of the Sick: Healing in Christ as part of the Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments Series (Baker Academic, 2025) and The Historical Jesus and the Temple: Memory, Methodology, and the Gospel of Matthew (Cambridge University Press, 2023). His peer-reviewed research has appeared in various academic journals such as Journal of Biblical Literature, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, and The New Ressourcement. He lives in Florissant, MO, with his wife Kimberly and their six children. For more on his work, see his faculty page at the Augustine Institute: https://www.augustineinstitute.org/faculty-and-staff/michael-barber-ph-d.

Robert Emmet Patrick Barron is an American Catholic theologian, author, speaker, and bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester, best known as the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Ordained in 1986 for the Archdiocese of Chicago, he served as rector of Mundelein Seminary and as auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles. Barron created influential media works like the PBS-aired Catholicism series and Catholicism: The Pivotal Players. A #1 Amazon bestselling author, his book This Is My Body sold over one million copies. He is a leading Catholic voice online, with millions of followers and over 187 million YouTube views, often engaging major cultural and intellectual figures.

Prof. Allan A. Basas holds a Doctorate in Sacred Theology (SThD) from the Ecclesiastical Faculties of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Philosophy from the UST Graduate School. Since 2003, he has been a faculty member of the UST Institute of Religion, teaching theology across various faculties and colleges of the University. He also teaches in the M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Theology at the UST Graduate School, as well as at the Faculty of Sacred Theology and the Faculty of Philosophy. He serves as a Research Associate at UST’s Research Center for Theology, Religious Studies, and Ethics. His scholarly work includes publications in academic journals and presentations at national and international conferences. (ORCID: 0000-0001-8556-3811)

Fr. James Baxter is a Dominican friar. He was ordained in 2016, and served three years as a university chaplain in Sydney. After doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg, he was appointed parish priest in 2022 to the parishes of St Benedict’s Broadway, St James’ Forest Lodge, and St Bede’s Pyrmont, in the Archdiocese of Sydney. He is a lecturer in the Melbourne Thomistic Institute. His research interests include the emotions, liturgy, and ecclesiology.

Fr. Abelardo Bazó Canelón holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome, 2003) and a PhD in History from the Andrés Bello Catholic University (Caracas, 2011). I am currently pursuing a doctorate in Biblical Theology in Salamanca, focusing on Joseph Ratzinger’s critique of methods of biblical exegesis. I teach courses on the Pauline Epistles, Ethics, and Metaphysics.

Amaury Begasse de Dhaem, a Belgian Jesuit, is a professor of dogmatic theology and dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He is the author of *Mysterium Christi: Trinitarian Christology and Soteriology* and some fifty articles in the fields of Christology, Trinitarian theology, theological anthropology, and theological method.

Fr. Pedro Antonio Benítez Mestre was born in Mexico City in 1972. He is a Catholic priest in the archdiocese of Tlalnepantla, México. He holds a Th.D. and Ph.D. and has been a professor of Theology at his Seminary and Universities: Panamericana and Navarra (Spain). His main interests include the theology of History, personalism, and Vatican II.

Fr. Paul Bere, S.J. is an African Jesuit in mission at the Biblical Institute in Rome. His field of research and teaching is the Old Testament and Biblical Hermeneutics. He also serves on a few Vatican institutions (Pontifical Biblical Commission; International Theological Commission; General Secretariat of the Synod; etc.).

Fr. Charles Berinyuy Sengka has a Ph.D in Church History, with a specialization in Patrology, from the Pontificia Universitas Sanctae Crucis. He is a Rector and Lecturer of Church History and Patristics at the St Thomas Aquinas’ Major Seminary (Theologicum), Bambui from 2016 to the present. https://bambuimajorseminary.com/people/fr-charles.html

Catalina Bermudez has a Doctor of Educational Sciences and Systematic Theology from the Istituto Internazionale di Scienze dell’Educazione of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. She also has a Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Navarra. She specializes in Patristic Studies, the relationship between Theology and Philosophy, and History of the Church in Latin America. Her training and experience allow her to approach education from a theological and philosophical perspective, with a focus on the historical and cultural context of the Church in Colombia.

https://theology.nd.edu/people/faculty/john-betz/

Pablo Blanco-Sarto studied philology, philosophy and theology in Rome, Munich and Pamplona, and holds a doctorate in the latter two disciplines. He has specialised in the thought of Luther, Newman, Dostoevsky, Pareyson and Ratzinger, and in the Catholic-Lutheran dialogue on the Eucharist, ministry and ecclesiology. He was awarded the Ratzinger Prize in 2023. He currently teaches theology at the University of Navarra, Spain.

Bernhard Blankenhorn, O.P. primarily teaches sacramental theology and ecclesiology. His research focuses on Dominican mystical theology in the medieval tradition, especially in the works of Albertus Magnus, and speculative ecclesiology in the Fribourg tradition of Charles Journet.

Gerald P. Boersma is Chair and Professor of Theology at Ave Maria University. A Catholic systematic theologian, his scholarship focuses especially on the thought of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. He is author of Affective Knowledge in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas (Cambridge, 2026) and Augustine’s Early Theology of Image (Oxford, 2016). Prof. Boersma has written numerous articles in theology, philosophy, and literary criticism. He has held fellowships at Villanova University, the University of Tübingen, and the University of Oxford. A sought-after speaker, Prof. Boersma frequently offers talks to retreats, parish events, student gatherings, and academic conferences.

Franz-Josef Bormann was born in Hildesheim in 1965. He studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Frankfurt, Munich, and Rome, and received his doctorate in theology in 1998 from the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt. After serving as a research assistant at the University of Freiburg, where he completed his habilitation in 2005, he was ordained a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Hildesheim in the same year. Since April 2008, he has been Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Tübingen; from 2016 to 2024, he also served as a member of the German Ethics Council. His research focuses on theories of justice, medical ethics, bioethics, and the philosophical and theological foundations of moral norms. Further information is available on his institutional webpage: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/fakultaeten/katholisch-theologische-fakultaet/lehrstuehle/moraltheologie/lehrstuhl/team/prof-dr-franz-josef-bormann/

James Bradley is Assistant Professor of Canon Law at The Catholic University of America, where his research and teaching focusses on the liturgical and sacramental discipline of the Church. Originally from England, he is a Priest of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Father Luiz Henrique Brandão de Figueiredo holds a Master’s degree in Moral Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, a Doctorate in Moral Theology from the Alphonsian Academy in Rome (Lateran University), and postdoctoral studies at the Alphonsian Academy in Rome (Lateran University) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is currently a Collaborating Professor 2 of Moral Theology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (PUC-GO) and a tenured Professor of Theology at the Institutum Sapientiae in Anápolis. He is an Episcopal Vicar, a member of the College of Consultors and the Presbyteral Council, and Parish Priest of Santa Genoveva Parish. http://lattes.cnpq.br/7272494092734556 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1842-6638

Stephen Bullivant is Professor of Theology and the Sociology of Religion at St Mary’s University, UK, and Professorial Research Fellow in Theology and Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. His recent books include: Vatican II: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2023; with Shaun Blanchard), and Trads: Latin Mass Catholics in the United States (OUP, 2026; with Stephen Cranney).

The Very Reverend James P. Burns, IVD, Ph.D., is President of Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, a Lasallian Catholic university, and a Catholic priest of the Voluntas Dei Institute. Previously, he served as Dean of the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College and held academic appointments in psychology, counseling, and religion at several universities. A licensed psychologist with a doctorate in counseling psychology from Northeastern University and fellowships at Yale School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School, his scholarly interests include Catholic anthropology, the integration of faith and reason, human flourishing, and the relationship between psychological science and Christian formation. His work in Catholic higher education emphasizes the Church’s intellectual tradition.

Joseph E. Capizzi is a moral theologian, currently serving as the McGrath‑Cavadini Director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, after previously serving as Dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America.

Fr. Daniel Cardó is a priest of the Archdiocese of Denver, where he serves as the Benedict XVI Chair of Liturgical Studies at their seminary and as pastor of Holy Trinity parish. His main area of interest is liturgy, both ancient and modern, particularly seeking a true understanding of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council. He also works on the theology of Joseph Ratzinger and in the area of Homiletics. Bio: https://sjvdenver.edu/seminarians/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/05/Father_Daniel_Cardo_CV_2026.pdf

Jonathan Ciraulo is associate professor of systematic theology and associate dean for graduate studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He received his PhD in systematic theology from the University of Notre Dame in 2018. His research focuses on sacramental theology, the theology of tradition, and the relationship between philosophy and theology and figures such as Hans Urs von Balthasar, John Henry Newman, Maurice Blondel, and Erich Przywara. His books include The Eucharistic Form of God: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Sacramental Theology (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022) and The Sacramental Principle: Ritual and Philosophy in Modern Thought (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2027). He is the lead editor of the journal The New Ressourcement.

Alessandro Clemenzia, dean of the Theological Faculty of Central Italy, is full professor of ecclesiology at the same Faculty and he lectures at the Pontifical Lateran University, where he obtained his doctorate in Sacred Theology in 2010 with a dissertation titled: From the Trinitarian “We” to the Ecclesial “We.” In Dialogue with Heribert Mühlen’s Theological Project (thesis supervised by Piero Coda). He then completed his postdoctoral studies in the Department of Trinitarian Ontology at the Sophia University Institute, where he published a monograph on the concept of “unum” in Augustine of Hippo. He subsequently graduated with a master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Perugia, with a thesis titled: Polar Tension and the Interpretation of Reality: The Contribution of Georg Simmel (2021). Pope Leo XIV recently confirmed his appointed Consultor to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, and—just a few months ago—he was also designated as an ordinary member of the Pontifical Theological Academy. He is the author of numerous books and articles.

Rachel M. Coleman is an associate professor of theology at Assumption University. In addition to her Ph.D., she holds a B.A. in philosophy and a B.S. in biology, and the concentration of her master’s is in biotechnology and ethics. Her main area of writing and research is metaphysics, though she also writes at the intersection of science, philosophy, and theology, as well as occasionally about the relationship between Catholicism and feminism. https://www.assumption.edu/people-and-departments/directory/rachel-m-coleman

Dr. David Collits is married with seven children, and resides in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. Currently a lawyer, he has worked on the personal staff of the Most Rev. Anthony Fisher OP and lectured in systematic, dogmatic and moral theology at the University of Notre Dame, Australia and Campion College, Australia. His latest publication is Hope and History: The Communio and Concilium Alternatives (Bloomsbury, 2026). His research interests include the thought of Joseph Raztinger, theology and philosophy of history, twentieth century Catholic thought, liturgy, and law.

Sam Zeno Conedera, S.J., is Associate Professor of History at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Ecclesiastical Knights: The Military Orders in Castile, 1150-1330 and Alfonsó Salmerón on the Scriptures: Theological Reflections from a Founding Jesuit (1515-1585), as well as articles and chapters on medieval Spain, the Society of Jesus, and the thought of Joseph Ratzinger. He is currently researching Pedro de Ribadeneyra, S.J.

Archbishop Anil Joseph Thomas Couto was born in Porvorim Village of Bardez, the Archdiocese of Goa and completed his schooling and seminary studies there.In 1967 he joined the minor seminary.He completed philosophy in 1973 and did regency in 1976 at Boys Town, Prem Nagar, Quepem, Goa. In 1977 he joined the Archdiocese of Delhi and completed theology studies in 1981 from the Vidyajyoti college of theological studies. He was ordained a priest on February 8, 1981, followed by two months each at Paharganj and Cathedral. In 1981 he went for mission experience at Varanasi. In 1982 (four months) he was sent as an Assistant Parish Priest at St. Joseph’s Church, NIT-5, Faridabad. Between 1982-1988 he was appointed Priest-in-Charge of ‘Prabhat’, Catholic Church, Rohtak. In 1988 he was appointed Assistant Parish Priest at St. Michael’s Church, Prasad Nagar and Principal of St. Michael’s Junior School. In 1991 he became the Rector of ‘Pratiksha’, Major Seminary, Delhi. Between 1991 – 1994 he Completed M.Th. in Ecumenism at Vidyajyoti. Thereafter between 1994-1998 he went for his Doctorate in Ecumenical Theology at St. Thomas Aquinas Pontifical University (Angelicum), Rome. On his return in 1998 he was appointed Rector of ‘Vinay Gurukul’ Minor Seminary, Gurgaon. He was appointed Episcopal Vicar in 1999 and appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Delhi & Titular Bishop of Cenculiana on January 17, 2001. His Episcopal Ordination was held on 11th March, 2001. He was appointed Bishop of Jalandhar on 24th February 2007 and installed as Bishop of Jalandhar on April 16, 2007. Appointed Archbishop of Delhi on 30th November 2012. Installed as Archbishop of Delhi on 20th January 2013.

Dr. Patrick Craine is President of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, a Catholic liberal arts college in Barry’s Bay, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in Theology from Dominican University College in Ottawa. His doctoral dissertation, entitled “Reassessing the Signs of the Times in the Church’s Life and Practice: A Thomistic Ressourcement,” is currently being revised for publication.

Cajetan Cuddy, O.P., teaches dogmatic and moral theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. He is General Editor of the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CATHOLIC THEOLOGY (ect.org) and Editor-in-Chief of INTELLECTUS: A JOURNAL OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT AND LIFE. For popular audiences, Fr. Cuddy is the author of the book Catholic Theology: An Introduction (ECT Press, 2025), and The Summa Illuminated: A Guide to St. Thomas Aquinas’s Masterpiece (Ave Maria Press, 2026). He has written for numerous academic publications on the philosophy and theology of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Thomist Tradition.

Fr. Thomas Cui is a Chinese priest and theologian, currently serving as Dean of the Faculty of Theology at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei, Taiwan, a role he assumed in July 2024 for a three‑year term. He received a Ph.D in Old Testament from the University of Fribourg.

Prof. Gavin D’Costa was born in Kenya, and has lived in the UK since 1968. He teaches in Rome every Spring and is married with two adult children. His main field is theology of religions and within that, Catholic Jewish dialogue. Prof. D’Costa has published: 8 monographs, edited 18 books, and academic journal articles and podcasts. His teaching in Rome has helped internationalise his outlook. Website: https://angelicum.it/professor/dcosta-gavin/

Fr. Anil Prakash D’Souza is a Dominican priest from India. Ordained in 2009, he holds an M.Th., an S.T.L., and an S.T.D. from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is currently Professor of Dogmatic Theology at St. Charles Institute of Theology, Nagpur, India, and Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly Dominican Ashram. His forthcoming book is Christian Salvation and the Religions: The Missional Soteriology of Charles Journet (Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic Press).

Dr. Darren E. Dahl is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology. He teaches and supervises widely in historical, systematic, and philosophical theology. His research is dedicated to exploring the interface between modern Catholic thought and European philosophy. He has served in five Canadian institutions of higher learning, worked with undergraduate and graduate students, and taught over forty different courses across the disciplines of philosophy, theology, and history, ranging from small seminars to lecture auditoriums with several hundred students. Dr. Dahl spent nearly twenty years at St. Thomas More College in Saskatoon. While he was there, he served the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon as both the Executive Director of the Prairie Centre for Ecumenism (2012-2019) and a frequent contributor to diocesan programming.

Rev. Dr. Horacio Day was born in Mendoza, Argentina in 1976 and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Mendoza in 2010. He holds a bachelor’s degree in theology and a doctorate in canon law. He currently serves as parish priest, Adjunct Judicial Vicar, Episcopal Delegate for the Ordo viduarum, and Director of the Office for the cause of the saints.

Fr. Emery de Gaál is a priest of the Diocese of Eichstätt, Bavaria, Germany. His areas of special interest are St. Anselm of Canterbury, St. John Henry Newman, Leo Scheffczyk, and Joseph Ratzinger. As professor of dogmatic theology, he teaches Fundamental Theology, Grace, Mariology and Pneumatology. For further information and Photo please see https://usml.edu/staff/rev-emery-de-gaal-ph-d/

Born in Belém, in the Brazilian Amazon, Prof. João Paulo studied Electrical Engineering, followed by Philosophy, and later, Theology at the Faculty of Theology of Lugano. After completing his master’s degree in Dogmatic Theology, he earned his doctorate and his Habilitation in Theology from the Faculty of Theology of Lugano. Since 2010, he has taught Systematic Theology in Brazil (at the Catholic Faculty of Fortaleza), and since 2014, in Switzerland. He authored several books in Italian and Portuguese, as well as numerous theological articles for international journals (such as Communio, Rivista Teologica di Lugano, and Revista Eclesiástica do Brasil), along with various other books and dictionaries. Prof. Paulo is currently a member of the Società Internazionale Tommaso d’Aquino (SITA), the Pneuma Society, the Institute of Mariology of the Faculty of Theology of Lugano, and the Historical and Geographical Institute of Pará.

Rev. Fr. Denis Tameh Ngabir is a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Mamfe, Cameroon, ordained on April 22, 2014. He holds a Licentiate in Canon Law (JCL) and has pursued doctoral studies in Canon Law at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., with particular research interests in matrimonial jurisprudence, the theology of marriage, and the relationship between African customary practices and canonical legislation. He currently serves as Parish Priest of Holy Name of Jesus Parish, Kokobuma, Dean of Nguti Deanery, and Judicial Vicar of the Diocese of Mamfe. His pastoral ministry has extended beyond Cameroon to the United States, where he served in various parishes. Fr. Ngabir is also an author, researcher, and commentator on ecclesiastical governance, priestly formation, and contemporary pastoral challenges. He is the author of The Cameroonian Priest Today, a work examining the identity, mission, and challenges of the Catholic priesthood in contemporary Cameroon. His academic and pastoral interests focus particularly on the intersection of canon law, African culture, ecclesiastical administration, and the Church’s evangelizing mission.

Born on January 9, 1971, in Kabue, Fr. Roger Dikebelayi Maweja is a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Kananga, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He earned a doctorate in Dogmatic Theology from the Catholic University of the Congo in 2012. Since 2018, he has served as Rector of the Christ the King Major Seminary in Malole, and since 2024, as Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Our Lady of Kasayi.

Dr. Diriart’s areas of interest include the sacramental theology of marriage, the ecclesiology of Charles Journet and the Second Vatican Council, and the issue of evil and abuses in the Church. She is the Editor-in-chief of the journal Anthropotes of the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Nova et Vetera. https://istitutogp2.academia.edu/AlexandraDiriart

Rev. Brian Dunkle, S.J., grew up in Freeport, NY, before leaving to attend Harvard University, where he studied Classics. After graduation he taught in Rome and studied at Oxford (M.St.) before joining the Jesuits, which led him to the novitiate in Syracuse, philosophy studies at Fordham University, and theology at the Gregorian University in Rome (S.T.B.) and at BCSTM (S.T.L.). He also taught Classics at Canisius College in Buffalo and regularly offers philosophy courses at the St. Joseph Scholastic in Vietnam. While serving on the faculty at the CSTM he offers pastoral assistance at local parishes and the correctional institutes of Concord, MA. He remains active in retreat direction and enjoys running and basketball.

Fr. Mark Enemali, a Spiritan of the Nigerian Northwest Province, is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and a faculty member at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana. He earned a Ph.D. in Theology, specializing in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, from the University of Notre Dame. Fr. Enemali’s research interests include the reception history of the Hebrew Bible, theologies of divine presence, African Biblical Hermeneutics, and the languages and cultures of the ancient Near East.

Dr. Bernardo Estrada earned his doctorate in Biblical Theology from the Universidad de Navarra in 1981 and his Ph.D. in Biblical Philology from the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca in 1993. He served as Professor of New Testament at Università della Santa Croce, Rome from 1984 to 2020. He was initatiated as a Member of the Academy of Sciences Nicholas Kopernicus in Poland in 2023

Chrysostom Bautista Exaltacion, S.J., completed both his Licentiate in Sacred Theology (2016) and his Doctorate in Sacred Theology (2022) at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. He is teaching systematic theology–Doctrine of God and Theological Anthropology–at Fu Jen Faculty of Theology of St. Robert Bellarmine in Taiwan, and is currently the Secretary of the Faculty. His book, The Trinity in Ratzinger’s Eyes, is recently published by Urbaniana University Press (2026).

Fr. Samuel Fernández is Professor of Patristics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He holds a PhD from the Augustinianum (Rome). His work centres on Origen, patristic exegesis, and the fourth-century Trinitarian controversies. His recent publications include Fontes Nicaenae Synodi (2024) and a study of the Council of Nicaea (2025).

Angela Franks, Ph.D., is a theologian, speaker, writer, and mother of six. She serves as Associate Professor of Theology at the Catholic University of America and as the President of the Academy of Catholic Theology for 2025-26. She is finishing a two-volume book series on the body and identity. The first volume is Body and Identity: A History of the Empty Self, which appeared in August 2025 with University of Notre Dame Press and won a 2025 Expanded Reason Award from the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, in collaboration with the Vatican Foundation Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI.

Mauro Gagliardi, S.T.D., M.Phil., born in 1975, was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno (Italy) in 1999. He has taught dogmatic theology since 2004 at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, where he was appointed Full Professor in 2009. Since 2015, he has also taught at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum). Fr. Gagliardi has been a visiting professor in the United States and Spain. He has published several books and articles, including “Truth Is a Synthesis: Catholic Dogmatic Theology.” https://www.upra.org/ateneo/docenti/mauro-gagliardi/

Fr Simon Francis Gaine is an English Dominican and the Pinckaers Professor of Theological Anthropology in the Angelicum Thomistic Institute in Rome. His publications are primarily in the areas of Christology, grace, eschatology and Dominican history. He is a member of the International Theological Commission and the Pontifical Academy of St Thomas Aquinas. From 2025 to 2027 he is President of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain.

Fernando Galindo Cruz is a research professor in the Faculty of Economics and Business at Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City. He is director of CAPESC, the Anáhuac Center for Catholic Social Thought. He is co-founder and director of Spes (spes.lat), a digital magazine dedicated to critical thinking, public life, and citizen journalism. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Konstanz, Germany; his dissertation focused on praise and blame in Aristotle.

Dr. María Isabel Gamboa Cervantes earned her bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Panamerican University and her Master’s degree in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, specializing in Ethics. She holds a Doctorate in the History of Thought with research on acedia. For five years, she was the general coordinator of the Institute of Humanities at UP and also served as the general director of the UP High School, Yaocalli campus. She has been a Research Professor at the Institute of Humanities since 2005.

Rev Professor Martin Ganeri OP is the Director of the Institute for Interreligious Relations and Associate Professor in the Theology Faculty at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Rome (the Angelicum). He is also editor in chief of the ‘Angelicum,’ the academic journal of the university. He is visiting lecturer in theology at Blackfriars Hall and Studium, Oxford and the former prior provincial of the English Province of the Order of Preachers (Dominican Fathers). His main interests are Catholic (especially Thomist) Theology of Religions, Catholic Theological Engagement with Classical Indian Religions.

Prof. Joaquín García Huidobro studied law and philosophy at the Universities of Chile, Navarra, and Münster. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy (University of Navarra, 1989) and a Ph.D. in Law (Austral University of Buenos Aires, 2015). He is a tenured professor of ethics at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of the Andes in Chile. He is the author of 18 books and 145 book chapters and articles on political philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of law.

Shaji George Kochuthara, CMI (LTh, ThD in moral theology, Gregorian, Rome) is Associate Professor of Moral Theology at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (DVK), Bangalore (2006-), where he was Dean of the Faculty of Theology. He is also visiting professor at the John Paul II Institute for Family Sciences, Lateran, Rome and at the Gregorian University, Rome. He was Editor-in-Chief of Asian Horizons: Dharmaram Journal of Theology (2009–2023), is the General Editor of Jeevadhara Journal of Theology (2022–) and serves on the editorial board of a few journals. He is co-chair of “Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church” (CTEWC) and was President of the Association of Moral Theologians of India (2016–2025), co-ordinator of the Asian Study Group, and a Member of the Scientific committee and steering committee of the project, “Vatican II: Legacy and Mandate.” His publications include The Concept of Sexual Pleasure in the Catholic Moral Tradition (Gregorian, Rome 2007); Revisiting Vatican II: 50 Years of Renewal, 3 Volumes, ed. (Dharmaram, Bangalore, 2014–2015); Das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil in Asien (ed. with Mary Mee Yin-Yuen (Herder, Freiburg-Basel-Wien: 2026) [In the Series Das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil—Ereignis und Auftrag. Band I: Das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil: Allgemeine Einfuehrung und Hermeutik, Freibur-Basel-Wien: Herder; and more than 100 articles. Link: https://www.unigre.it/it/docenti/george-shaji/

Anthony Giambrone, O.P. is the Vice Director of the French Biblical and and Archaeological School of Jerusalem. He holds a Ph.D in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include the New Testament, the Synoptic Gospels, Luke-Acts, Christology, Numismatics, and Epigraphy. https://www.ebaf.edu/les-enseignants/anthony-giambrone-op/

Fr. Golubiewski, O.P. is a Polish Dominican friar of the Vice-Province of the Queen of China, based in Taiwan, with an academic background in law, theology, and philosophy, including doctoral studies under the direction of Stephen L. Brock, whose clarity in reading Aquinas has been especially formative for him. His research focuses on Aquinas’s philosophy and theology of nature and human action, especially their metaphysical foundations and implications for philosophical anthropology, natural law, and virtue, as explored in his book Aquinas on Imitation of Nature and related articles. He is also interested in bringing Aquinas into dialogue with ancient Chinese thinkers, including Mozi, in his recent work, both in pursuit of truth through philosophical inquiry and to explore how Chinese thought might contribute to Catholic theology in conversation with the Thomistic tradition. His academic experience includes research and teaching at several institutions, particularly Fu Jen Catholic University, and he is also affiliated as a researcher with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He currently serves as Director of the Aquinas Center (https://aquinasinasia.org/), established by the Dominican Vice-Province in Taiwan, and is working to develop it as a shared institutional setting for study and collaboration among Dominican friars and other scholars, promoting the Catholic intellectual tradition and its dialogue with Chinese and other Asian thought.

Dr. Görföl teaches philosophy of religion at the University of Pécs (Hungary) and dogmatic theology at the St. Athanasius Greek Catholic College at Nyiregyhaza (Pécs). He is editor-in-chief of the oldest Catholic review of his country, “Vigilia” and he is on the editorial board of the International Catholic Review Communio. He is translating Hans Urs von Balthasar’s trilogy and Joseph Ratzinger’s complete works into Hungarian. His texts deal with patristic theology, contemporary problems of Catholic dogmatics, the mystical tradition, and Eastern orthodoxy. He is currently working on a book on a Catholic theology of religions.

Sr. Gill Goulding teaches Theological Anthropology, Trinity and Ecclesiology. She is a member of the CCCB standing committee on Responsible Ministry, and she is on the Theological Commission of the Canadian Council of Churches. She is also a Bye-Fellow of St. Edmunds College, Cambridge UK. Her recent research with 2 books this year has focused on the theological underpinnings of responses to abuse.

Thomas V. Gourlay is a Senior Lecturer teaching Systematic Theology and Religious Education at the Catholic Institute of Western Australia. He completed his PhD in systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia, where he also served as the National Director of Chaplaincy and Faith Formation, and lecturer in the School of Philosophy and Theology. With degrees in theology, education, and the liberal arts, Tom has published in scholarly books and journals including New Blackfriars, The Heythrop Journal, Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, and International Studies in Catholic Education. Tom is the president and co-founder of the Christopher Dawson Society for Philosophy and Culture, an Associated Scholar for the Hildebrand Project, and a member of the Academic Network of the Fundación Internacional Ratzinger, the Australian Catholic Theological Association. Tom and his wife Elizabeth have five children and live in the suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2546-6056

John S. Grabowski is currently a Professor of Moral Theology/Ethics at the Catholic University of America where he has taught for over thirty years. He has served three terms as a theological advisor to the U.S.C.C.B. He and his wife Claire were appointed to the Pontifical Council for the Family by Pope Benedict XVI in the fall of 2009 where they served as a member couple. In 2015 he was appointed by Pope Francis to serve as an expert at the Synod of Bishops on the Family. Dr. Grabowski has written or coauthored eight books and many scholarly and popular articles in the areas of moral theology, marriage, sexuality, and bioethics. His recent books include A Catechism for Family Life, One Body, Unravelling Gender, and A Catholic Guide to Being Human. He and his wife have 5 children and 17 grandchildren and live in the Archdiocese of Washington.

Rev. José Granados, dcjm, is the Superior General of the Disciples of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and co-founder and president of The Veritas Amoris Project. He has worked as Vice President and Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Institute John Paul II, Central See (Rome). He currently teaches as a visiting professor of theology at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary (Denver, CO) and at the Séminaire International d’Ars (France). https://veritasamoris.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CV-J-Granados.pdf

Fr. Jack Green was born and raised just outside Sydney and, after completing seminary studies, was ordained a Catholic priest in 2018. In 2021, he began an MPhil at Mansfield College, University of Oxford in systematic theology before continuing onto the DPhil. His dissertation is in ecclesiology.

Marine Guerbet is a philosopher based in Paris, whose research lies at the meeting point of the Latin patristic tradition and Thomism. Trained at the EPHE (Paris) and the Angelicum (Rome), she completed a doctorate on Thomas Aquinas’s confrontation with Manichaeism and Catharism. She teaches philosophical anthropology and ethics, as well as medieval philosophy, at the Institut Catholique de Paris and other French institutions.

Nicholas Healy is the author of “The Eschatology of Hans Urs von Balthasar: Being as Communion,” and, together with David L. Schindler, “Freedom, Truth, and Human Dignity: The Declaration on Religious Freedom.” Recent articles have addressed the nature and sacramentality of marriage, the interpretation of Dignitatis Humanae, and the theological anthropology of Henri de Lubac and Thomas Aquinas. He is co-editor of the North American edition of Communio: International Catholic Review and a board member of the Academy of Catholic Theology.

Dr. Hittinger is considered by many the world’s leading expert on the history of Catholic Social Teaching. Hittinger’s historically important body of work over the years on Catholic moral and social philosophy and theology is rooted in natural law theory and Thomistic philosophy, but also animated by St. Augustine’s thought and thus consistently sensitive to historical contexts and arenas for moral and theological disputation. His life’s work elucidates the point that Catholic social teaching is not only an articulate defense of the dignity of the human person, but perhaps more fundamentally an elucidation of the dignity of society. Indeed, Hittinger enables us to see that one cannot properly defend the dignity of the person without also showing the dignity of societies in which human persons – as naturally familial, political, and ecclesial animals – seek their own perfection in communion with others.

Andrew Hofer, OP, is Ordinary Professor of Patristics and Ancient Languages at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC where he also is editor-in-chief of The Thomist. He is the author of Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (OUP 2013) and The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh (CUAP, 2023). He has edited and co-edited several volumes in Patristics and Thomistic theology. https://dhs.edu/people/rev-andrew-hofer-o-p/

Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai, S.D.B. is a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco. He was ordained to the priesthood in Hong Kong in 1982. He has served as Provincial Superior of the Salesian Province of China and as Professor of Theology at the Holy Spirit Seminary in Hong Kong. In February 2011, he was appointed by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI as Titular Archbishop of Sila and Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, becoming the highest-ranking Chinese official in the history of the Roman Curia. Archbishop Hon is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology and has previously served on the International Theological Commission. Modules: Fundamental Theology, Mariology, Social Doctrine of the Church. Besides teaching duties, Archbishop Hon also directs students in their academic research and dissertations.

Dr. Helmut Hoping studied philosophy and theology in Münster, Germany (1976–1982); earned a Dr. theol. degree from the University of Tübingen (1989); and completed his habilitation at the University of Tübingen, Germany (1995. He has served as a Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland (1997–2000) and Professor of Dogmatic Theology and Liturgical Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany (2000–2025). He retired in April, 2025. He is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Benedict XVI Institute in Regensburg and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Cologne College of Catholic Theology (KHKT). Website: helmut-hoping.de

Fr. John-Mark Igboalisi is a Catholic priest and also a Dominican. He completed his doctoral studies at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C in 2023. He is a full-time lecturer at the Dominican University and the Dominican Institute. He also teaches at Ss Peter and Paul Seminary and St Albert the Great Seminary in Nigeria, and directs courses at DOMUNI. Fr. Igboalisi’s interests are in Thomistic studies in Christology, soteriology, and ecclesiology.

Father Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, studied in Rome during the four sessions of Vatican II and received his STL from the Gregorian University in 1966. In the aftermath of the Council he did doctoral work in philosophical theology at Yale University and received his Ph.D. in 1972. During teaching at St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, and Boston College, he focused upon fundamental theology and Christology, influenced especially by the works of Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Joseph Ratzinger. His efforts to advance Ratzinger’s notion of a “spiritual Christology” find expression in his books: Rekindling the Christic Imagination and Christ Brings All Newness.

Pablo Irizar teaches, researches, and writes at the intersection of Catholic intellectual history, systematic theology, and philosophy of religion. He currently serves as Academic Dean and Vice President at Newman Theological College in Alberta, Canada. He also serves as a doctoral research supervisor in the Ph.D. in Theology program at St. Mary’s University (Twickenham). He previously held the endowed Kennedy Smith Research Chair in Catholic Studies at McGill University.

Fr. Christian J. Ivandić, LC is originally from Germany and is currently pursuing a PhD in systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation examines Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Trinitarian theology, focusing on the relationship between philosophy and theology in general, and between philosophical metaphysics and Trinitarian theology in particular. Upon completing his doctorate, he will teach at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. https://theology.nd.edu/people/ph-d-candidates/christian-ivandic/

Jozef Jančovič is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Dean of Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of Cyril and Methodius at Comenius University Bratislava. His research covers a creational theology, primeval history, and warfare in biblical texts. He worked on the ecumenical translation of Bible in Slovak (2007) and on the first Slovak Biblical Commentary of Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus, Psalms). CV on https://frcth.uniba.sk/uploads/media/English_01.pdf

Fr. Jaramillo is a priest, Ph.D. in Theology of the Pontifical Xavierian University, teacher in Fundación Universitaria Unicervantes, and researcher of the investigation group Academia and other groups around the world related to Patristics, classical education and Catholic renewal according to the Second Vatican. For the past two years he has been working in a doctoral research on Patristic Exegesis at the Pontificia University of Salamanca.

Fr. Oskari Jurrikkala is an associate professor of fundamental theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. He works especially on the metaphor of the book of nature and the dialogue between theology and science. A native of Finland, he has also worked in law and economics which he studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Helsinki. He is an associate member of the Augustinian Resemblances project at the University of Oxford.

Father Dennis Kasule is a Catholic priest originally from the Archdiocese of Kampala, Uganda, who serves as an Associate Professor of Dogmatic Theology and the Pilgrimage Director at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake / Mundelein Seminary in Illinois. He balances his academic and pastoral work in the United States with extensive humanitarian, educational, and health initiatives focused on his home country, Uganda. His endeavors focus on building bridges humanly and theologically.

Mirabel Nagei Kenduanyi is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Dominican University, Ibadan, Nigeria. She holds a B.A in Linguistics from the University of Buea, Cameroon, a Higher National Diploma in Theology, an MA in Theology from Duquesne University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA; and is a doctoral Candidate in Theology in l’Université Catholique de l’Afrique de L’Ouest, Côte d’Ivoire. She is a member of the Catholic Theological Association of Nigeria (CATHAN). She is interested in: ecclesiology and contemporary issues in the Church in Africa, the apostolate of the laity, philosophy of development, philosophy of education and the thoughts of Thomas Aquinas. Her research include: “Formation of the Laity for Effective Witnessing”, “The Place and Mission of the Laity in the Church According to Vatican II”, “The Genius of African Spiritualities”; “The Blessed Virgin Mary as Prototype of the African Female Theologian” and others.

Dr. Cyril Kennedy is originally from Brampton, Ontario. He received a BA (2007) in History and World Religions from the University of Toronto, and a B.Th. (2013) and an M.A. (2014) in Eastern Christian Theology: both degrees were awarded jointly by the University of Ottawa and Saint Paul University. He began a PhD at the Catholic University of America in Liturgy and Sacramental Theology in 2015. He defended his dissertation in 2022, under the supervision of Rev. Stefanos Alexopoulos. The title was “I Will Rise at Midnight: The Historical Development and Theological Significance of Festal Vigils in Jerusalem in the First Millennium.” Since then, he has taught at the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies (St. Michael’s-Regis College, University of Toronto), St. Joseph’s College (University of Alberta), and Newman Theological College, where he began an appointment as assistant professor in 2025. He recently co-edited Eastern Catholic Theology in Action, the first volume in the series Eastern Catholic Studies & Texts, published by CUA Press. He is also editor of Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, published by the Sheptytsky Institute. He is a deacon of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church, and is married with four children.

Fr. Marcin Kowalski is an ordained priest for the diocese of Kielce of Poland He is also a member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission. He studied at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome (SSL and SSD) and is a doctor habilitatus in theology. Fr. Kowalski is: director of the Heschel Center for Catholic-Jewish Dialog KUL (2023-2025); director of the Chair of Biblical Theology and Proforistics at the Institute of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology, the John Paul Catholic University of Lublin; visiting professor at the Pontifical University Urbaniana, the Vatican See. His academic interests include: the letters of Paul, ancient rhetoric, stoicism, apocalyptic, empire criticism, and emotions in the Bible. He is the author of Transforming Boasting of Self into Boasting in the Lord (Lanham, MD 2013); 2 Corinthians (a commentary); The Spirit in Romans 8 Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2024). He has also published articles on Paul in CBQ, JSNT, Biblica, and Religion.

Jaroslaw Kupczak has taught moral and dogmatic theology at the St. Thomas Aquinas Institute of Religious Studies (Kiev, Ukraine), the John Paul II Institute (Melbourne, Australia), the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Rome, Italy), the Catholic University of America (Washington DC, USA), the Pontifical Institute of John Paul II (Rome, Italy), and Dominican College (Kracow, Poland). His publications include: Destined for Liberty: The Antropology of Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II (2000), Gift and Communion: John Paul II’s Theology of the Body (2014), and Before Amoris Laetitia: The Sources of the Controversy (2021). His interest centers around theological anthropology, theological method in its historical mutations (with special attention to developments after Vatican II), John Paul II’s intellectual heritage, and Catholic social thought. In the years 2017-2023, he held the position of the President of the Polish Society of Dogmatic Theologians. He is a recipient of the Totus Tuus Award (2018) and the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Polish Science “Sapientia et Veritas” (2025).

Fr. John Kusumalayam was born on 16 December, 1961 in Kerala. He was ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers on 7 May, 1990. He holds a post-graduate degree in Indian Philosophy & Religion from Banaras University, Varanasi, India; a licentiate in Moral Theology from Academia Alfonsiana, Rome; a Ph. D (S.T.D.) from Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium. His main interest is Catholic social teaching.

Travis Lacy is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Providence College. He received a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the University of Notre Dame and now writes and researches in the areas of ecclesiology, philosophical theology, and the Medieval era. He and his wife, Shannon, and their five children—Edith, John Henry, Drew, Miriam, and Martin—live in Rhode Island, where they like to eat seafood, play whiffle ball, and go to the ocean.

Fr Uwe Michael Lang, a native of Germany, is a priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri and Associate Professor in Liturgy and Church History at St. Mary’s University Twickenham, London. He is the author of The Roman Mass: From Early Christian Origins to Tridentine Reform (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and A Short History of the Roman Mass (Ignatius Press, 2024). He is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Ratzinger (Cambridge University Press, 2024). He is the Editor of Antiphon: A Journal of Liturgical Renewal.

Fr. Jude Thaddeus Langeh, CMF, is the Major Superior of the Claretian Missionaries of Cameroon.

Levine Andro Hernández Lao, PhD, is a philosophy scholar affiliated with the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines. His research interests include Thomistic philosophy, Catholic intellectual history in formerly colonized territories, and the philosophical contributions of neo-scholastic thinkers Cardinal Zeferino González and Jacques Maritain. Dr. Lao is particularly interested in the relationship between Catholic philosophical traditions, modernity, and intellectual developments in history, including the encyclicals of Leo XIII and the Second Vatican Council. His scholarly work explores the historical transmission and contemporary relevance of Catholic philosophical thought.

Fr. Cyril Law is currently serving as the Director of the Catholic Institute of Theology in Macao (affiliated to the Theology Faculty of the Catholic University of Portugal) and Dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies and Philosophy at the University of Saint Joseph, Macao, China. His academic interests largely concern Newman Studies, the history of Christianity in China, canon law, and liturgy. Faculty page: https://www.usj.edu.mo/en/faculty-directory/cyril-law/

Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the President of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Prior to this position, he served as the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at the PFIC. He is an Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Rev. López teaches and writes in the areas of trinitarian theology, metaphysics, theological anthropology, and marriage. He is the author of Spirit’s Gift: The Metaphysical Insight of Claude Bruaire (CUA Press, 2006), Gift and the Unity of Being (Wipf & Stock, 2013), and Rinascere: La memoria di Dio in una cultura tecnologica (Lindau, 2015). He has edited Retrieving Origins and the Claim of Multiculturalism (Eerdmans, 2015) and Enlightening the Mystery of Man: Gaudium et spes Fifty Years Later (Humanum Academic Press, 2018). He serves as editor of Humanum Academic Press and of the English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyła and John Paul II, a continuing series from CUA Press. He is a member of the editorial board of Communio: International Catholic Review, of the scientific committee of Ricerche di ontologia relazionale, and of the Academy of Catholic Theology.

A priest of the Archdiocese of Mexico, Fr. Julian Lopez Amozurrutia has served as a formator and professor for generations of priests, religious, and the lay faithful. He is a canon theologian at the Cathedral of Mexico. His theological interests focus on theological epistemology, Christology, and Trinitarian theology.

Fr. Joseph is the Director of Campus Ministry and an Instructor of Theology at Ave Maria University (AMU) in Florida. He is an executive member of Ave Maria University President’s cabinet since 2024. He holds a PhD in Theology from Ave Maria University (2023), an M.A in Theology and M.Div from Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis (2017), and an STB in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Fr. Joseph is the founder and director of Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School located at Nabutongwa Village, Kalungu District-Uganda.

Fr. Anthony Lusvardi, S.J., teaches sacramental theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He is the author of Baptism of Desire and Christian Salvation (CUAP 2024) and writes on a variety of theological, cultural and literary topics. A more complete biography is available here: https://tonylusvardisj.com/background-and-publications/.

After studying Classics and Theology in Frankfurt, Munich, and Oxford (M.St. in Oxford, German State Examination in Munich), Dr. Veronika Maria Lütkenhaus went on to complete a PhD in Latin and Greek Philology. She then moved into the field of biblical studies. Her current research focuses on the reception history of the Bible and Patristics, particularly the work of Origen of Alexandria. She is currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher in the LMU Cluster of Excellence “Cross-Cultural Philology” (https://www.lmu.de/crossculturalphilology/en/), working on the project “Eudocia’s Homeric Centos”. Her institutional webpage is: https://www.kaththeol.lmu.de/de/personen/kontaktseite/veronika-luetkenhaus-d74407c2.html

Kevin Magas holds an M.T.S. and Ph.D. in theology from the University of Notre Dame with a concentration in liturgical studies and a licentiate in sacred theology (S.T.L.) from Santa Clara University. He has taught as a Department Chair of Theology and Ministry at Holy Family College, Manitowoc, WI and has directed Mundelein’s Liturgical Institute. Research interests include modern liturgical history, especially the 19th and 20th century Liturgical Movements, biblical and patristic ressourcement, and liturgical theology. His articles and reviews have appeared in Worship, Antiphon, Adoremus Bulletin, and Chicago Studies, where he is also a member of the editorial board. He is a member of Societas Liturgica, the Academy of Catholic Theology, and the Society for Catholic Liturgy, where he has served as a member of the board of directors.

Fr. Cecilio Vladimir Eusebio Magboo, OP belongs to the religious congregation of the Order of Preachers. He is a professor of the Ecclesiastical Faculty of Theology of the University of Santo Tomas. Before entering the priesthood, he finished Bachelor of Science in Forestry major in Forest and Environmental Resources Management at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños in 1998. In 2002, he finished his AB Philosophy at the Philippine Dominican Center of Institutional Studies in Santo Domingo Quezon City and in 2010, obtained his Licentiate in Theology with specialization in Church History at UST Manila. He earned his Doctorate in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, ‘The Angelicum’ in Rome in 2020.

Rev. Prof. Clement Chinkambako Abeguuni Majawa belongs to the Catholic Archdiocese of Blantyre in Southern Malawi. He works in the Ecclesiastical Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Education and as a Senior Researcher. He was a fifth former Dean of the Faculty of Theology and the first Director of the School of Graduate Studies in CUEA. He served in the University Council and University Management Board (2007–2012). He is adjunct Professor and Instructor in several Institutions of Higher Education and Academic Research in Kenya and beyond. Professor Majawa is a Malawian Dogmatic cum Spiritual Theologian, Patristic Educationist and Psycho-somatic therapeutic spiritual Counsellor and Ecclesial Preacher. He is a theological critique and hermeneutic of Inculturation; Prolific Writer, Author and Playwright; Creative Artist, Poet and Motivational Speaker.

Ignacio M. Manresa (born in Barcelona) is a priest of the Hermandad de Hijos de Nuestra Señora del Sagrado Corazón and Assistant Professor of Sacred Scripture at the Instituto Superior de Estudios Teológicos San Ildefonso in Toledo. His teaching and research center on biblical hermeneutics and the Gospel of John, guided above all by St. Thomas Aquinas. He is the author of Exégesis en el Espíritu según santo Tomás de Aquino (Toledo: ISETSI, 2018).

Bishop Villarreal studied humanities and philosophy at the Monterrey Seminary (1990-1995); as well as a bachelor’s degree and bachelor’s degree in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical University of Mexico from 1995 to 2001. He holds a Ph.D. in Dogmatic Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He was vicar at the Corpus Christi Parish in Monterrey from 1999 to 2000, and diocesan coordinator of Youth Ministry from 2002 to 2005. He is a co-founder of the gang rehabilitation program known as “Raza Nueva en Cristo.” He was a teacher of Ecclesiology at the Seminary of Monterrey from 2002 to 2019, and coordinator and formator of Theology studies (2005 – 2013). On January 25, 2020, Pope Francis appointed him as Auxiliary Bishop for the Primate Archdiocese of Mexico. On March 19, 2020, he received episcopal ordination as Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico, in the Distinguished and National Basilica of St. Mary of Guadalupe. He was appointed as Secretary General of the Mexican Bishops’ Conference for the Triennium 2024 – 2027.

After studying theology and philosophy at the Universities of Bonn and Munich, Prof. Dr. Thomas Marschler devoted his doctoral and habilitation theses to topics in medieval and early modern Scholasticism. Since then, he has broadened my research to include a wide range of topics in the history of modern theology. In systematic theology, he is particularly interested in questions of Trinitarian theology and the foundations of dogmatics.

Bruce D. Marshall is Lehman Professor of Christian Doctrine Emeritus in the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas, USA), where he taught from 2001 – 2026. He is the author of Trinity and Truth (2000) and Christology in Conflict (1987), and a number of articles in academic and popular journals on Trinity, Christology, sacramental theology, grace, and the Church’s relationship with non-Christian religions. In 2023 he held the Aquinas Chair in the Thomistic Institute at the Angelicum in Rome, and in 2026 was McDonald Agape Visiting Scholar at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington.

Jay Martin writes and researches at the intersection of Catholic systematic theology, psychoanalysis, French and German philosophical thought, and emancipatory political theory, as well on issues in science and religion, comparative theology, and culture.

Dr. Mary McCaughey is the Director of Studies and a lecturer in Dogmatic Theology at St Mary’s College, Oscott, the seminary for the Archdiocese of Birmingham, UK, serving the Church in England, Scotland and Wales. Her theological interests are the theology of Joseph Ratzinger, Vatican II, Fundamental theology, especially theological method and development of doctrine, Ecclesiology and Mariology. Currently, she is exploring the ecclesiology and Mariology of Charles Journet and Matthias Scheeben in dialogue with Lumen Gentium.

Dr. Peter McGregor teaches dogmatic theology, mainly to Catholic seminarians. His research interests and publications lie mainly in the areas of the theology of Joseph Ratzinger, fundamental theology, theological anthropology, post-modern theology, missiology, and the relationship between theology and spirituality. He is a member of the Emmanuel Community, a Public Association of Christ’s Faithful. The community is composed of lay people, priests, and people in consecrated life, who seek to live out the graces of adoration, compassion, and evangelisation. Dr. McGregor is married, and he and his wife are foster parents to two sons.

Dr. Jorge Medina is a Mexican philosopher, educator, and researcher whose academic work focuses on ethics, philosophy, and education. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Universidad Panamericana and a Ph.D. in Education from Universidad Intercontinental. He has also completed postdoctoral research stays at European institutions, including Universidad Pontificia Comillas and the University of Extremadura in Spain. He currently serves as President of UPAEP University in Puebla, Mexico.

Andrew Meszaros studied philosophy and theology at Boston College, the University of Oxford, and the Catholic University of Louvain (KU Leuven). After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Vienna, he taught for nine years (2016-2025) at St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, Ireland. His interests range from fundamental-theological issues around revelation to theologies of history. He now holds the St John Henry Newman Chair at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas. https://angelicum.it/professor/meszaros-andrew-martin/

Fr. Thomas Michelet is a Dominican of the Province of Toulouse. He received an S.T.D. from the University of Fribourg, and is Professor Extraordinarius at the Angelicum.

Matthew Minerd is a Ruthenian Catholic, husband and father, and editor and translator of a number of 20th century texts. He serves as online managing editor of The Encyclopedia of Catholic Theology (ect.org) https://www.matthewminerd.com

Dr. Gustavo Monzón is an Associate Profesor of Political Philosopy and Philosophy of Law. https://carreras.ucu.edu.uy/programas/docente/gustavo-monzon–s-i—13675d

Fr Gregory Morgan is the Parish Priest of St Catherine Labouré, Gymea, in the Archdiocese of Sydney. He holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He has taught philosophy and ethics at the University of Notre Dame/Catholic Institute of Sydney since 2019. https://www.stcaths.org.au/our-priests

Dr. Jomon Mularikkal CMI is an Associate Professor at the Pontifical Athenaeum, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bengaluru, India. He holds a Doctorate in Systematic Theology from PTHV, Germany. His research interests include Eucharistic Theology, Sacramental Theology and Pneumatology, and he has published scholarly articles and a book in theology. He has served as Director of the Centre for the Study and Research on St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara (CSRKEC) for the past six years and is actively involved in the academic, spiritual and pastoral formation of seminarians.

Fr. Dr. Dominic Muriyankavunkal was born in 1975 in Madappally, Kerala, India. He first studied Physics before turning to philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Oriental Institute of Religious Studies (POIRS), Kottayam. He earned his licentiate (2011) and a doctorate (2015) in theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris. His dissertation, on the theology of the episcopate in an Eastern Catholic Church sui iuris, was published in 2025. A priest of the Archdiocese of Changanacherry of the Syro-Malabar Church, he has served as Assistant Professor and Spiritual Father at POIRS and St Thomas Apostolic Seminary and, since 2025, as Dean of its Faculty of Theology. His main interests are systematic and fundamental theology, ecclesiology, Eastern and liturgical theology, and above all the hermeneutics of Vatican II, including Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’s “hermeneutic of continuity” and the theology of synodality.

Dr. Francesca Murphy is primarily interested in theological aesthetics.

Fr. Joseph Murphy is reading for a DPhil in Patristics and Philosophical Theology at Oriel College, Oxford. Born in Brisbane, Australia, he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Sydney in 2019. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Ancient Greek, Latin) from the University of Sydney, a Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours I) from the University of Notre Dame (for which he analysed Aristotle’s Greek philosophical texts), a Bachelor of Theology (CIS), and an MPhil in Philosophical Theology read at St Peter’s College, Oxford. His doctoral work studies ancient philosophical influences on Origen of Alexandria. Fr Joseph is a 2022 Ramsay scholar and Middle Reader at the Canterbury Institute since 2022.

Fr. Fabrice N’Semi is a Catholic priest from the Diocese of Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo, currently serving in the Diocese of Lugano, Switzerland. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from the Faculty of Theology of Lugano and a Master’s degree from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. He is currently pursuing his Habilitation in Theology, with research focusing on the dignity of the human person as the image of God in the thought of St Thomas Aquinas. Alongside his pastoral ministry, he is engaged in theological teaching and research in Africa and Europe.

Jennifer Newsome Martin is a systematic theologian with areas of interest in 19th and 20th century Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox thought, trinitarian theology, theological aesthetics, religion and literature, French feminism, ressourcement theology, and the nature of religious tradition. Her first book, Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), was one of ten winners internationally of the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise. She is co-editor of An Apocalypse of Love: Essays in Honor of Cyril O’ Regan (Herder & Herder, 2018) and the second edition of the Blackwell Companion to Catholicism. Over twenty-five articles and book chapters have appeared in such venues as Modern Theology, Communio: International Catholic Review, The Newman Studies Journal, International Journal of Systematic Theology, and in a number of edited volumes and collections of essays. Since July 2024, she has served as the Director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture.

Fr. Paul O Adaja is a New Testament scholar with strong interests in Early Christianity and Early Christ groups.

Rev. Prof. Paul O’Callaghan studied Electronic Engineering (1973-79) in Dublin (Ireland) and student theology in Rome and Navarre, Spain (1979-). He was ordained priest by St John Paul II (1982). He taught theology at Navarre (1985-90), and Rome (1990-) at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross: Professor of Theological Anthropology, Vice-Rector (1998-2000), Dean of Faculty of Theology (2000-2008), Director Department of Dogmatic Theology (2010-2018). Rev. Prof. O’Callaghan is the author of 12 books and 200 articles in the area of anthropology, creation theology, eschatology, ecumenical theology, theology of the faith and of priesthood. Web page: https://docenti.pusc.it/callaghan

Timothy P. O’Malley is a liturgical-sacramental theologian, who is the author of over twelve books related to the Eucharist, liturgical-sacramental theology, Mary, marriage and family, initiation, and Catholic higher education. He is presently writing a two-volume work on liturgical formation in late modernity attentive to the formation of the doxological self and the doxological city.

Prof. Matthew Ogilvie is a professor at UNDA, with experience at Uni of Dallas and other Australian institutions. He is a specialist in Bernard Lonergan. https://www.notredame.edu.au/about-us/faculties-and-schools/school-of-philosophy-and-theology/fremantle/staff/matthew-ogilvie

Raphaël Okitafumba Lokola is a priest of the Diocese of Tshumbe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (since 2010). He earned his PhD in Ethics and Social Theory in 2018 (Berkeley, USA) and holds the Chair of Moral and Spiritual Theology at the John Paul II Major Seminary in Lodja. He is the author of a few articles and book chapters in English and French, including: “The Self-Understanding of the Congolese Church during War: CENCO in the Grip of the Greatest Modern Humanitarian Crisis” (2020); “Les valeurs transcendantes en conflit. Les acquis et les défis prophétiques d’un évêque congolais” (2021); “‘The Angel of Light at Work’ : An Assessment of the Christian Mission in the Southern Hemisphere” (2023); “L’Africain face au tourbillon de la confusion. Perspective pour l’agentivité personnelle et communautaire” (2025). In addition, he is the editor of a collective book (Le mal dans l’univers tetela : Mélanges offerts pour le cinquantenaire de Munga de Nyeme Tese, 2025).

Ferdinand Okorie is a member of the Claretian Missionaries. He received his MDiv and an MA in Theology with a concentration in Biblical Languages and Literature from Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. Then, he obtained a PhD in New Testament and Early Christianity at Loyola University Chicago. His research interests include the Greco-Roman context of Early Christianity, the relationship between Paul’s letters and the Pastorals, the formation of Christian identity and the intersection between religion and culture.

Fr. Tharcisse Onema is a priest from Congo who is pursuing a master’s degree in theology from Ave Maria University, where he also serves as a campus minister.

Rev. Dr Martin Ifeanyi Onuoha, a priest of the Diocese of Ahiara, Nigeria (ordained 2001), is a systematic theologian specialising in Mariology, ecclesiology, and the theology of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI. He holds a Licence and Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, and since 2013 has taught at Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, where in 2014 he was appointed permanent faculty in dogmatic theology and a member of the HIRS Council. He is a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of Joseph Ratzinger (Oxford University Press) where he wrote on the Mariology of Joseph Ratzinger and also the author of Mary, Daughter Zion: An Introduction to the Mariology of Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) and Actio Divina: The Marian Mystery of the Church in the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger (both Peter Lang), as well as Life Is Always Worth Living: Assisted Dying or Living? and Strung with Grace: 25 Pearls on the Rosary. He is a member of the Theological Commission of the International Marian Association, of the Catholic Theological Society of America and the Catholic Theological Association of Nigeria and was a delegate at the Vatican’s 2024 International Congress on the Future of Theology. He also serves as Parish Priest of three parishes in Stockport, in the Diocese of Shrewsbury, England.

Father Jacob Onyumbe is a Roman Catholic priest of the diocese of Tshumbe and an Associate Professor of Hebrew and Scripture at the Université Notre-Dame de Tshumbe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His research focuses on African contextual biblical interpretation, especially on the appropriation of prophetic and poetic biblical depictions of violence. His book, Piles of Slain, Heaps of Corpses: Reading Prophetic Poetry and Violence in African Context, was published in July 2021 by Wipf & Stock (Oregon, USA). He has published articles and book chapters in scholarly journals and in popular magazines.

Prof. Dr. Jacob Parappally MSFS holds a doctorate in Theology from the University of Freiburg, Germany. He taught systematic theology at Jnana-Deepa, Papal Athanaeum, Pune for 14 years, where he served as the dean of the Faculty of Theology. He is a visiting professor of many theological faculties in India and Freiburg and Erfurt in Germany. He was the rector of Tejas Vidya Peetha, Institute of Mission-Oriented and Contextual Theology, Bangalore and was the President of the Indian Theological Association (2005-2011).. He published 17 books and more than 300 theological articles. His latest book is Christ without Borders (Orbis, New York, 2024). He is the chief-editor of the Journal of Indian Theology.

Dr. Óscar Perdiz Figueroa is a comprehensive educator and creator of educational projects in philosophy, theology, and art. Holding a Doctorate in Theology from the Pontifical Lateran University, he has a distinguished teaching career across Italy, Spain, and Mexico, and serves as Head of Formation at the John Paul II Institute for the Family. He is the author of the book Loving: Mystery and Project. Anthropology and Theology of Love and a coordinator of international publications.

Dr. Luis Pesquera is Professor at the Institute of Humanities, where he teaches ‘Introduction to Christianity’ and ‘Theological Anthropology.’ He also serves as the Director of the Academy of Theology at Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City (https://www.up.edu.mx/claustro/luis-pesquera-olalde/). Furthermore, he is a member of the Mexican Academy of Theology and the founder of the Latin-language podcast “Nuntii in lingua latina”.

Jacob Phillips is Professor of Systematic Theology at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK. He holds a BA in Theology from Heythrop College (University of London), along with an MA and PhD from King’s College London. His most recent book is Modern Thought Baptized: Joseph Ratzinger and the History of Ideas (Emmaus Academic 2027).

Aaron Pidel (PhD University of Notre Dame 2017) is a Jesuit who teaches in the departments of fundamental and dogmatic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He has published two monographs: Church of the Every Greater God (UND Press 2020) and The Inspiration and Truth of Scripture (Catholic University of American Press 2023). His current research centers on ecclesiology and eucharistic theology, especially the accentuation they receive in the Jesuit theological tradition. https://www.unigre.it/en/professors/pidel-aaron/

Dr. Jeremy Pilch is currently the Head of School of Theology at St Mary’s University, London. He teaches Systematic Theology, Ecclesiology and Mariology in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs, and supervises many doctoral students. Following the publication of his monograph, ‘Breathing the Spirit with Both Lungs’: Deification in the Work of Vladimir Solov’ev, he has published several articles on Russian religious thought, as well as on Catholic ecclesiology and spirituality. His current research focuses on the Catholic theology of deification in the century preceding ressourcement, and the interaction between Orthodox and Catholic theology in western Europe in the years following World War One.

Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. is an Assistant Professor of Dogmatic and Moral Theology at the Dominican House of Studies and the Assistant Director of the Thomistic Institute. He was ordained a priest in 2016 and holds a doctorate from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He is the author of several books including Your Eucharistic Identity: A Sacramental Guide to the Fullness of Life, Training the Tongue and Growing Beyond Sins of Speech, and Justice: Judge Rightly, Give Freely. He is a regular contributor to several podcasts including Godsplaining and Catholic Classics. 

Br. Thomas Piolata OFM Cap. is a Capuchin friar of the St. Augustine province, and an Assistant Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at The Catholic University of America. His research focuses primarily on the Franciscan intellectual tradition. Within this tradition, he is especially interested in the thought of St. Bonaventure, and the figure and writings of St. Francis of Assisi. In addition to Franciscan Studies, Br. Thomas is also interested in the thought of Romano Guardini. Thematically, much of his most recent and ongoing scholarship explores topics related to pneumatology and Trinitarian theology.

Rev. Fr. Bernand Poggi a Catholic priest serving as Rector of the Seminary of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, where he accompanies young men discerning and preparing for priestly ministry in the Holy Land. He also is the founder of the Spiritual Formation Center, which offers theological education and faith formation to Christians in the Holy Land, and serves on the International Board of Regents of Bethlehem University representing the Catholic Bishops of the Holy Land. His academic background spans physiology and business, followed by advanced studies in theology, with particular interests in human freedom and Christian Anthropology, Morality and Doctrine.

Prof. Rodrigo Polanco is a diocesan priest of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile. He holds a Doctor of Theology degree from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He is a full Professor at the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Director of the journal Teología y Vida. He specializes in systematic theology, particularly in the areas of ecclesiology, theological anthropology, Christology, and Trinitarian theology. He has also worked on the Second Vatican Council and Latin American ecclesiology, as well as on the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Joseph Ratzinger. http://teologia.uc.cl https://uc-cl.academia.edu/RodrigoPolanco/ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3549-8040

Trent Pomplun is an associate professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. His interests extend from late medieval to modern thought, with special emphasis on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has published on the history of scholastic theology, Mariology, and Catholic missions in Asia.

Antonio Porras Mirón is a priest, professor and author. He holds a doctorate in Moral Theology from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. He was ordained as Priest on May 21, 2005. He was a Professor of Moral Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross for 14 years, and currently teaches theology at the “Universidad del Istmo” in Guatemala. Antonio is the author of one book and has edited others. He has published articles on moral issues such as family and ecology in different reviews. For four years, he collaborated with the Editorial Board of the review: “Annales theologici”. For the last six years in Rome, he was the Academic Dean of the School of Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. He has been invited to give courses in Kazajistan, Mexico, Venezuela, Jerusalem, Ecuador and Colombia. He also designed a mosaic of Our Lady of the Rosary installed at the Vatican gardens. Antonio serves currently at the headquarters of the Prelature of Opus Dei in Central America. He is in charge of the philosophical and theological studies of the members of Opus Dei in Central America, and also collaborates with the Religion programs of many schools in Central America. With other experts, he is creating an Institute on Marriage and Family issues in Guatemala, and also promoting think tanks on Education, Anthropology, and Psychology. On Mondays, he works as chaplain at the Universidad del Istmo and every evening, he spends time hearing confessions and giving spiritual direction. https://catholiciu.edu/team-profile/antonio-porras-miron/

Prof. Roger Pouivet works primarily in the philosophy of religion from a Thomist perspective. He is particularly interested in British Thomists who are also closely associated with Wittgenstein, Geach, Anscombe, Kenny, Braine, McCabe, B. Davies. He has also taught and written extensively in the field of the metaphysics of art.

James Prothro is Associate Professor of Scripture and Theology at the Augustine Institute. He writes and researches in New Testament interpretation (especially the Pauline Letters and Catholic Epistles), ancient Greek linguistics, textual criticism, and in theological discussions about the divine revelation and biblical inspiration and how they relate to Catholic biblical interpretation.

Fr. Anthony Queirós is a Brazilian Catholic priest and professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. Having completed graduate studies at the Institut Catholique de Paris and the Angelicum, his research focuses on the theological significance of tradition, particularly in twentieth-century Catholic theology and the reception of the Second Vatican Council. His broader academic interests include fundamental theology, Trinitarian theology, Contemporary Christian intellectual history, and the relationship between theology and modern thought.

Dr. Amalia Quevado studied Philosophy at Universidad de Navarra (Spain), wrote her dissertation on Aristotle, and moved to Contemporary Philosophy. She is also a Humboldt Fellow, and as such lived in Münster (Germany) for two years.

Dr. Matthew Ramage is Professor of Theology at Benedictine College, where he co-directs the Center for Integral Ecology. His research concentrates on the theology of Joseph Ratzinger, the wedding of ancient and modern biblical exegesis, the development of a Catholic theology of creation capable of grounding a distinctively Christian environmentalism, and the recovery of embodied human flourishing in an age of technological saturation. When he is not teaching or writing, he enjoys tending his orchard and exploring the great outdoors (especially national parks) with his wife and eight children. You can find his CV and publications, along with video and audio recordings of his talks and interviews, at www.matthewramage.com.

Roberto Regoli, full professor of Contemporary Church History at the Pontifical Gregorian University, is president of the Vatican’s Joseph Ratzinger–Benedict XVI Foundation. His research focuses particularly on the history of the Papacy, the Roman Curia, Church-State relations, and papal diplomacy from the 19th to the 21st centuries. He is a member of various academic and cultural organizations in Europe and the United States.

Félix Resch, S.T.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Faculté Notre-Dame, Collège des Bernardins in Paris. His main research and teaching interests are faith and reason as well as faith and politics. In his forthcoming book Trinité et démonstration: De saint Anselme à Nicolas de Cues (Le Cerf, 2026), he discusses the metaphysical and epistemological aspects of the rational attempt to prove the necessity of the Triune God in medieval thinkers like Anselm of Canterbury, Richard of Saint Victor, Ramon Llull, or Nicholas of Cusa. Furthermore, he works on medieval and contemporary methods in Christian apologetics (Aquinas, Joseph Ratzinger, René Girard) as well as on Jacques Maritain’s theocentric philosophy. He is the editor of L’héritage théologique de Benoît XVI: Coopérateur de la Vérité, foreword by Cardinal Luis F. Ladaria Ferrer, S.J. (CLD Éditions, 2023), and the co-editor with Marie Girard of Violence et Révélation: René Girard, lecteur de l’Écriture (CLD Éditions, 2024). https://www.collegedesbernardins.fr/intervenant/felix-resch

Dr. Pilar Río holds a doctorate in Theology from the Pontificia Universidad de la Santa Cruz (Rome), where she taught for 20 years as a professor in the Theology Department in the areas of ecclesiology, sacramets, liturgy, and liturgical ecclesiology. In 2025 she moved to the Theology Department at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where she engages in teaching and research related to her areas of interest.

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Dr. Miguel J. Romero is an associate professor in the Center for Health Care Ethics and the Department of Theology at Saint Louis University. His primary research areas are moral theology, Catholic social teaching, and the theology of Thomas Aquinas. Romero’s published work focuses on Christian anthropology, theological method, disability, and liberation theology. His articles and essays have appeared in The Thomist, Nova et Vetera, Journal of Moral Theology, Journal of Disability & Religion, and National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. He served six years on the board of directors for the National Catholic Partnership on Disability, twice delivered public lectures at the Vatican on disability, and he currently serves the US Catholic Conference of Bishops as a theological consultant.

Fr. James Dominic Rooney is an assistant professor of philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University, and his work is primarily in metaphysics, medieval philosophy, Chinese philosophy (程朱理学), and philosophy of religion. He is also a Dominican friar of the Province of St. Albert the Great (Chicago, IL) and a Catholic priest.

Michael Root received his PhD in theology from Yale University. He taught at various Lutheran seminaries prior to his reception into the Catholic Church in 2010. His primary theological interests are in ecumenical relations, grace and justification, and eschatology.

Prof. Dor. Alberto Ross is a Full Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Universidad Panamericana (Mexico). He received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Universidad de Navarra (Spain), and held a postdoctoral position at the Centre Léon Robin (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne and the CNRS, France). His main area of research is ancient philosophy, in particular, Aristotle and his reception in late antiquity (https://www.up.edu.mx/claustro/jose-alberto-ross-hernandez/)

Fr Paul Rowse is a son of the Dominican Order’s Australian Province. Working mainly in the patristic reception of Paul, he has taught in Sydney, Melbourne, Oxford, and Washington DC. He is currently the Parish Priest of St Dominic’s Camberwell East, Melbourne and National Chaplain of the Australian Catholic Students’ Association.

Christopher Ruddy is associate professor of systematic theology at The Catholic University of America. He was formerly associate professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and also taught at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Divinity School, he received his doctorate in systematic theology from the University of Notre Dame. His two books are titled The Local Church: Tillard and the Future of Catholic Ecclesiology and Tested in Every Way: The Catholic Priesthood in Today’s Church (both Herder & Herder). His theological interests include Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, ecclesiology, Vatican II, and the nouvelle théologie and ressourcement movements. New York natives, he and his wife, Deborah, have four sons.

Alejandro Sada Mier y Terán holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Navarra, an MA in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and a BA in Philosophy from Universidad Panamericana. Since 2011, he has been a research professor at Universidad Panamericana, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. His research examines the relationship between faith and reason, with a particular interest in philosophical and theological reflection on the metaphysical and anthropological implications of Christian faith and on how Christian revelation illuminates our understanding of the human person, especially through the thought of John Henry Newman and Joseph Ratzinger. He has authored and edited various books and academic articles published by distinguished scholarly presses and in respected specialized journals. He is a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers, vice president of the International Ratzinger Foundation, a member of the Ratzinger Chair at the University of Ávila, and an associate researcher at the Ratzinger Center of the University of La Sabana.

Prof. Nicola Salato is a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. His research interests center around the study of the genesis of the concept of Church and the life of early Christian communities. Over the past few years, he has dedicated significant attention to the themes of conciliar ecclesiology. He also cultivates a passion for art as a further source of knowledge for a theology of the Church. https://pftim.discite.it/ppd/carriera.jsp?d=1054

Originally from France, Stephane Saulnier moved to the UK in her early twenties. After completing a Ph.D., she moved with her family to Notre Dame (IN), where she taught for a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Theology. She then took up a full-time position to teach New Testament at Newman Theological College, in Edmonton (AB), where for the last twenty years she has taught Sacred Scriptures and their interpretation from the perspective of the ‘Mind of the Church.’ Faithfulness to the Magisterium within the application of a hermeneutic of faith and continuity best characterize her teaching.

Br. Baptiste Sauvage, OCD, is a Privatdozent and lecturer at the French-speaking Chair of Old Testament at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He is the author of Le char des chérubins : Exégèse littérale d’Ézéchiel 1 (“Lectio Divina” series, 2023) and serves as the editor of the “Bible et mystique” series (Éditions du Carmel). His research focuses on the intersection between academic exegesis and mystical theology.

Ciprian Sava-Popa is Romanian. He has university degrees in both Orthodox theology and philosophy from the University of Bucharest. He continued his studies in Switzerland, Geneva and Fribourg, and eventually finished his PhD in theology at the University of Fribourg at the end of 2022, with a thesis, written in French, on the ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council: “Les limites de l’Église selon le concile Vatican II. Un regard orthodoxe sur un développement catholique,” which was published in 2024 by Aschendorff Verlag. In April 2025, he participated in a colloquium on the theology of Charles Journet in Fribourg, Switzerland, with the following paper: “Le Saint-Esprit dans les ecclésiologies de Charles Journet et Dumitru Stăniloae. Quelques considérations.” At present, he is enrolled in postdoctoral studies at the University of Fribourg. His subject is: “The Church and the Corporeality of Salvation.” At the same time, he works in Romania, in the cultural sector.

Paul Scherz is the Our Lady of Guadalupe Professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and a program chair for the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab. Building on a dual training in genetics and moral theology, his work examines the intersection of theology, science, medicine, and technology. He is the author of The Ethics of Precision Medicine (University of Notre Dame Press, 2024), Tomorrow’s Troubles: Risk, Anxiety, and Prudence in an Age of Algorithmic Governance (Georgetown University Press, 2022), and Science and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He has previously taught at the Catholic University of America and the University of Virginia.

D.C. Schindler is a Professor of Metaphysics and Anthropology at the John Paul II Institute, where he has taught since 2013. His work is concerned above all with responding to contemporary cultural challenges by drawing on the resources of the classical Christian tradition, and has written books on the nature of goodness, truth, and beauty, as well as their anthropological correlates: freedom, reason, and love. His most recent book is called “Authority and Its Counterfeits: A Political, Poetical, Philosophical and Theological Theory,” which will appear with Oxford University Press in 2027. Prof. Schindler is also the series editor, and translator, of the works of the German Catholic philosopher Ferdinand Ulrich.

Fr. Mikael Schink is a Jesuit priest who completed a doctoral thesis in dogmatic theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, in 2025, with the title “Salvation Through Christ’s Sacrifice in Thomas Aquinas” (forthcoming with the Catholic University of America Press), under the supervision of Gilles Emery. He is currently teaching Trinitarian theology at the Newman Institute in Uppsala. His research interests include Christology, Trinity and Soteriology. https://newman.se/mikael-schink/

Michele M. Schumacher is a wife and mother of four adult children, a doctor in sacred theology (S.T.D.), and a private docent (habil.) at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). In addition to numerous articles and book chapters in various languages on Christian anthropology, redemption, feminism, sexual ethics, sexual complementarity, marriage, and spirituality, she is the author of A Trinitarian Anthropology: Adrienne von Speyr and Hans Urs von Balthasar in Dialogue with St. Thomas Aquinas (Catholic University of America Press, 2014); Metaphysics and Gender: The Normative Art of Nature and Its Human Imitations (Emmaus Academic, 2023; also published in French by Salvator 2026); and God Acting in Man: Aquinas on Divine Causality, Human Freedom and Natural Desire for God (Catholic University of America Press, 2027). She is also the editor and contributing author of Women in Christ: Towards a New Feminism (Eerdmans, 2004; also published in French and Polish).

John Sehorn is the Academic Dean of the Graduate School of Theology, as well as an Associate Professor of Theology. He specializes in the theology of the Fathers of the Church, with a particular interest in their scriptural exegesis. He received his doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and has been a member of the faculty at the Augustine Institute since 2015. He is currently co-editing the series A Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments for Baker Academic.

Dr. Nelson Shang is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of Bamenda, and at The Catholic University of Cameroon (CATUC). He specializes in metaphysics, epistemology, decoloniality, science and religion, and the philosophy of education.

Father Henry Shea, SJ, is a priest of the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus and a member of the theology faculty of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. His research has focused on grace and twentieth-century theologians, and his recent book, An Analogy of Grace, was published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2025.

Alex is currently the Director of the Christopher Dawson Centre for Cultural Studies in Australia and also he works as the Catholic Identity Advisor for Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools. He has tutored and lectured at a number of universities and colleges in Australia, in including the University of Melbourne and the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family (Melbourne Campus). He has graduate degrees in Politics from the University of Melbourne and in Theology from the University of Oxford. He previously worked as the Private Secretary for Archbishop Julian Porteous, the recently retired Archbishop of Hobart, and he currently lives in Melbourne with Helen and his seven children.

Bishop Edouard Sinayobye was ordained a priest in 2000 in the Butare Diocese. He holds a Ph.D in Spiritual Theology from Teresianum University in Rome. He trained in Logotherapy, the approach of Viktor Frankl. He assumed many responsibilities as a priest: pastor, Director of Caritas, Director of Justice and Peace. He is the author of some publications on the healing of wounds, the spiritual life, and apparitions of Kibeho in Rwanda. He participated in two sessions of synodality in Rome as a representative of the Episcopal conference of Rwanda.

Carlos Marcelo Singh Mesconi is a Catholic Priest of the Archdiocese of Salta (Argentina) since 2011. In 2018, he obtained the degree of Licentiate in Theology and Patristic Sciences, at the Pontificium Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum (Roma), and later, in 2021, the Doctorate in Theology and Patristic Sciences at the same institution. He is currently Head of the University School of Theology and Philosophy at the Universidad Católica de Salta.

Vilma Šliužaitė is an Assistant Professor at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in Kaunas, Lithuania. She holds a Doctor of Sacred Theology (S.T.D., 2012) and a Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S.T.L., 2007) from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She also holds a Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S.T.L., 2002) and a Bachelor of Sacred Theology (S.T.B., 2000) from VMU, as well as a professional qualification as a registered nurse (1994). She teaches fundamental moral theology, sexual ethics, and bioethics. Her research interests include theological anthropology and the relationship between human freedom and embodied existence, with a particular focus on women’s freedom and embodied fertility.

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Innocent Smith, O.P., is Assistant Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. After undergraduate studies in music and philosophy at Notre Dame, he entered the Order of Preachers in 2008 and was ordained priest in 2015. Fr. Innocent served in parish ministry for several years before completing a doctorate in liturgical studies at the University of Regensburg in 2021. After teaching for several years in Baltimore and Washington, DC, he joined the Department of Theology in 2025. His research focuses on the material and musical aspects of medieval liturgical books as well as the relationship between liturgy and theology. https://theology.nd.edu/people/innocent-smith-o-p/

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Fernando Soler is Associate Professor of Patristic Theology and Director of Graduate Studies at the Faculty of Theology of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he joined the ordinary faculty in 2020 and teaches Ancient Church History and Patristics. His research focuses on Alexandrian patristics, especially Clement of Alexandria and Origen, with particular attention to body theology, patristic hermeneutics, ancient medicine, gender, and early Christian anthropology. He has published a monograph with Brill | Schöningh as well as several articles on these topics. He serves as Secretary General of the Conference of Catholic Theological Institutions (COCTI) and as Secretary of the International Association of Patristic Studies (AIEP/IAPS). Biography: https://teologia.uc.cl/quienes-somos/cuerpo-academico/fernando-soler/

Dr. Daria Spezzano is Professor and Chair of Theology at Providence College. She holds a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, and a Master’s in Liturgical Studies from the Liturgical Institute. Her areas of research and teaching include grace, soteriology, sacraments, biblical theology, and eschatology. Her publications include The Glory of God’s Grace: Deification according to St. Thomas Aquinas (Sapientia Press, 2015), as well as essays in journals such as The Thomist, The New Ressourcement, and Nova et Vetera, and edited volumes including Reading Job with St. Thomas Aquinas (CUA Press, 2020), Thomas Aquinas, Biblical Theologian (Emmaus Academic, 2021), Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology (Sapientia Press, 2021), Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher (Sapientia Press, 2023), Reading Hebrews with St. Thomas Aquinas (Emmaus Academic, 2024), and Christ, the Wisdom of God in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas (Emmaus Academic, 2026).

Having worked a few years as a business attorney, Nicolas Steeves joined the French Province of the Society of Jesus in September 2000. His studies in philosophy and theology in Paris, London, and Rome led him to graduate degrees in Fundamental Theology (STL, Gregorian University, Rome; STD, Centre Sèvres, Paris). His theological interests are the role of the imagination in theology (epistemology, ethics, mediation, etc.); Revelation, faith & cultures; John Henry Newman; homiletics; popular devotions; idolatry; and much more. He enjoys swimming, hiking, choral singing, and playing the organ. https://www.unigre.it/it/docenti/steeves-nicolas/

Dr Christian Stephens is Lecturer in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia, and Director of Human Formation at the Seminary of the Good Shepherd, Sydney. https://www.notredame.edu.au/about-us/faculties-and-schools/school-of-philosophy-and-theology/sydney/staff/christian-stephens

Rev. Vincent L. Strand, S.J., is a priest of the Society of Jesus and Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. His research and teaching focuses on the theology of grace, Christology, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Catholic theology. Faculty webpage: https://trs.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/vincent-strand/index.html

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Sr. Albert Marie Surmanski is a member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. She is a sacramental theologian who studies the work of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas in particular. She has published in Nova et Vetera, Antiphon, Franciscan Studies, The New Ressourcement and New Blackfriars, among others. She has translated several works of Albert the Great. She also studies and teaches spiritual theology to young Dominican sisters with a focus on Catherine of Siena and the Dominican tradition.

Rev. Tegha Afuhwi Nji is a Catholic Priest of the Diocese of Buea, Cameroon. He is a Dogmatic/Systematic Theologian, with particular research interests in the works of Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) and his philosophical and theological interlocutors, including Descartes and Nietzsche, Balthasar and De Lubac, in the dialogue of modern culture and religion, and in African theology. https://www.augustineinstitute.org/faculty-and-staff/rev-tegha-afuhwi

Fr. John Paul Thomas, O.P. is a Dominican friar of the Province of India and a doctoral student in Thomistic Christology/Soteriology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He taught Dogmatic Theology for five years at St. Charles Seminary, Nagpur, India, where he also served as Dean of the Department of Theology and Vice-Rector.

Arthur Jordan de Azevedo Toné is a Brazilian professor of theology at the Italo-Brazilian Catholic University Center and of civil engineering at the Federal Institute of Ceará (IFCE). He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in theology from the Catholic University of Pernambuco (UNICAP) and a PhD in Civil Engineering (Water Resources) from the Federal University of Ceará, where he is also completing a PhD in Philosophy. He serves as an ecumenism advisor to the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), sits on the editorial and scientific board of the journal Encontros Teológicos, and is a member of the Brazilian Society of Systematic Theology and the Brazilian Society of Theology and Sciences of Religion. His theological research focuses on Catholic systematic theology, questions at the boundary between theology and philosophy, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Protestantism, and ecumenical and interreligious dialogue. He is the author of Luther’s 95 Theses: A Catholic Commentary and Debating the Reformation: A Catholic Commentary on the Debate between Luther and Zwingli at Marburg.

Fr. Tan Tran, S.J. is a Vietnamese Jesuit priest specialising in systematic theology. He studied at Melbourne College of Divinity and Boston College. He currently teaches at Saint Joseph Jesuit Scholasticate in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. His research focuses on ecclesiology, ecclesial ministry, the Second Vatican Council, and theological method.

Isabel Troconis is originally from Venezuela, where she studied Social Communication. After moving to Rome, she earned a Licentiate and a PhD in Sacred Theology. Her work has focused on the theology of Joseph Ratzinger, as well as on Trinitarian theology and ecclesiology. Her current research explores communio ecclesiology, with particular attention to its theological roots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beyond academic work, she enjoys reading, traveling, and mountain hiking.

Jan-Heiner Tück was born 1967 in Emmerich (Germany). He studied Catholic Theology and German Philology at the Universities of Tübingen and Munich. He is Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Vienna and Editor of the german edition of the International Catholic Review COMMUNIO. His research focuses in particular christology, ecclesiology, the hermeneutics of the II. Vatican Council and on the critic of the Society of Saint Pius X. Publications: -) Ausverkauf des Konzils: Die Päpste und die Piusbruderschaft – eine Konfliktgeschichte, Freiburg i.Br. : Herder 2026; Crux. Über die Anstößigkeit des Kreuzes, Freiburg i. Br.: Herder 2. Aufl. 2023. -) Erinnerung an die Zukunft: Das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil, Freiburg i.Br.: Herder 2. Aufl. 2013.

Bede Ukwuije, a Spiritan, is a professor and vice chair of the Department of Theology. Ordained a Catholic priest on July 31, 1994, he became a missionary in France for 12 years, serving as Students’ Chaplain at the University of Rennes II, Chaplain of African Migrants’ Community in the dioceses of Rennes and Nanterre, and Formator at the Spiritan Formation Community in Clamart. He was also Associate priest at Ste Madeleine Parish, Châtenay-Malabry (1999-2005). He taught Systematic Theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris and the Spiritan International School of Theology, Attakwu Enugu (SIST), Nigeria. He was also Guest Professor at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA in the year 2022. He served as the First Assistant to the Superior General of the Spiritans in Rome (2012-2021) and member of the Theological Commission of the Union of Superiors General (2016-2019).

Wife and mother of five, Maria Urteaga is also a philosopher, researcher, and professor whose work explores the intersections of epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and serves as a research professor at the Institute of Humanities at Universidad Panamericana. Her research focuses on the ethics of belief, with particular interest in the epistemic and ethical dimensions of our beliefs and the responsibilities associated with holding them.

Marcel Uwineza, S.J. is a Rwandan Jesuit priest, theologian, and educator, holding a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Boston College and an MBA from York St. John University (UK). For more, see https://hekima.ac.ke/rev-dr-marcel-uwineza/

Prof. Dr. Thomas Vadakkel is a priest of the Eparchy of Palai, Kerala, India. He holds a PhD in Biblical Studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium. He is Professor in the Faculty of Theology at the Pontifical Oriental Institute of Religious Studies (POIRS), St. Thomas Apostolic Seminary, Vadavathoor, Kerala, where he teaches Sacred Scripture, with particular specialization in St. Paul. Prof. Dr. Vadakkel currently serves as the Secretary of the Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council (KCBC) Doctrinal Commission, Kochi. From 2018 to 2025, he served as the Secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) Office for Doctrine, Delhi. Currently he is also a Member of the International Committee for the Centenary of the Birth of Pope Benedict XVI, established by the _Fondazione Vaticana Joseph Ratzinger – Benedetto XVI_ . https://pvpkottayam.in/pvp/administration/our-professors/vadakkel-thomas/

Father Yann Vagneux is a French Catholic priest of the Paris Foreign Missions (MEP). After spending 15 years in Varanasi, the sacred city of India, he lives today in Kathmandu (Nepal) where he continues to work in the field of Interreligious dialogue, particularly between the Catholic Church and Hinduism. Doctor in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University and Indologist, he is the author of several books: A Priest in Banaras (2020), Indian Portraits: Eight Christian Encounters with Hinduism (2021), An Emulation of Sanctity: Hinduism and Christianity in Dialogue (2025) and The Trinitarian Philosophy of Jules Monchanin (2026).

Luis-Fernando Valdés López, a priest of the Prelature of the Opus Dei, holds a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain), a Bachelor’s degree in Theology from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome), and a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Panamericana (Mexico). A researcher specializing in topics related to the Anthropology of Faith and Credibility, his publications and research focus on the discourse of faith in the public sphere of secular societies, as well as on the credibility of faith and the reasonableness of Christian revelation. His work adopts an anthropological approach that seeks to serve as a bridge for dialogue between faith and reason. He also works in areas such as theological methodology and studies of Sacred Scripture as both the revealed Word of God and a human word.

Born in Norway in 1974, Erik Varden spent ten years in Cambridge, where he wrote a doctorate on Pierre de Bérulle, before joining Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, where he milked cows. After teaching for a while at the pontifical athenaeum of Sant’Anselmo in Rome, he was named superior of his community in 2013, then elected its abbot in 2015. He oversaw the building of the abbey’s beer brewery. In September 2019 Pope Francis appointed him bishop of Trondheim. He currently serves as president of the Nordic Bishops’ Conference.

Alberto I. Vargas is Director of the Inner Institute and Researcher at the IMEESDN of the Ministry of National Defense. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Navarra (Spain), a Master’s Degree in Government and Culture of Organizations (University of Navarra, Spain), a Master’s Degree in Education (Villanueva University, Spain) and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy (EGAP, Tec de Monterrey) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science (Tec de Monterrey). He is a member of the National System of Researchers of Conacyt (Level 1) and of the Mexican Association of Philosophy. He is Academic Advisor of the Center for the Study of Family, Bioethics and Society CEFABIOS of the Pontifical University of Mexico. He is Vice-President of the Leonardo Polo Institute of Philosophy (USA) and Editor of the Philosophical Anthropology Series of the Bloomsbury Publishing House (USA). https://www.innerinstitute.org/alberto-i-vargas/

Catalina Vial teaches Sistematic Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. Her main area of research is Theological Anthropology. She has published a monograph on the Holy Spirit and the grace of Christ according to Thomas Aquinas’s biblical exegesis (Santo Tomás exégeta de san Pablo. El Espíritu Santo y la gracia de Cristo en los comentarios tomistas a las cartas paulinas, CET-RIL, Santiago de Chile, 2020).

Dr. Jörgen Vijgen is an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas and teaches at the Major Seminary of the Diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam (Netherlands). He is also a member of the Thomas Institute in Utrecht and conducts research at the Faculty of Theology of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. His research includes Thomas Aquinas’ biblical theology and Aquinas’ reception of Aristotle. https://tiltenberg.academia.edu/JörgenVijgen

He is the current Archbishop of Lingayen Dagupan in the Philippines and past president for two terms of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines. He was a synodal father in the Synod of Bishops of 2012 and 2014.

Dr. Kevin Wagner is the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching for the Faculty of Education, and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. He is the principal convener of the Theology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium conference series and co-editor of the eponymous book series. He is also the President of the Catholic Scholars Guild. His teaching, research, and HDR supervision is predominantly in the areas of Patristic Theology, Early Church History, and Scripture. He was previously the Director of the Emmanuel School of Mission in Rome, a role he shared with his wife. He is a member of the La Communauté de l’Emmanuel (Emmanuel Community).

Dr. Christopher Wojtulewicz is currently the Dean of Philosophy and Lecturer at St Mary’s College Oscott, and a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. He has published widely on late medieval philosophy and theology. He has also published on and translated work by Erich Przywara, with particular interest in his relationship to St John Henry Newman. He is also interested in the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis.

Robert Woźniak is a Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Vice President of the Polish Association of Dogmatic Theology, a Member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology (Vatican), a Member of the Commission of Faith and Science in The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, co-editor of two collections of books, and chief-editor of Theological Research.

Dr. William M. Wright IV is a professor of Catholic Studies and Theology at Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA). A specialist in New Testament studies, he received his Ph.D. from Emory University. He teaches broadly across the biblical canon, and his scholarship focuses largely on the Johannine writings, the Gospels, the use of premodern reception history as an exegetical and theological resource in light of the Catholic Ressourcement.

Fr. Anthony Yilaka was born in Melim, Kumbo, Bui Division. After completing his primary education in his home village, he studied in the Bambui Major Seminary from 1978 to 1986. He was ordained as a priest on April 4, 1986. He completed further studies at the Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome from 1994 to 1998 in Dogmatic Theology. Since then he has been Rector of St. Aloysius Minor Seminary, Kitiwum, Rector of the Vianney Centre, Bafut, Lecturer at the Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda and Lecturer at St. Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary, Bambui.

Sławomir Zatwardnicki is Assistant Professor at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Wrocław. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Wrocław Theological Review. He is a lecturer, publisher, and author of numerous articles and books, including the recently published: Apostolski Kościół a Pismo apostol¬skie [The Apostolic Church and the Apostolic Scripture] (Lublin 2024). He is a member of the Society of Dogmatic Theologians in Poland and the Association of Fundamental Theologians in Poland.

Zinan Zhang (born in 1996) earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering (2015), followed by master’s degrees in philosophy (2019) and theology (2021), and successfully defended his doctoral dissertation (2025) at KU Leuven. After completing a one-year PDM postdoctoral fellowship, he is currently a voluntary research assistant at KU Leuven. His research interests include Augustine, patristics, Late Antiquity, spirituality, Mariology, Vatican II, and political theology. At the centre of these diverse interests lies his sustained engagement with Augustine’s theory of time.

Geertjan Zuijdwegt (Goes, 1985) is Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies (KU Leuven) and at the Faculty of Law and Criminology (KU Leuven). Together with Pieter De Witte, he occupies the Endowed Chair for Detention, Meaning and Society, where he explores the history, ethics, and theology of punishment and the prison through research and educational projects. Geertjan is an expert in the thought of John Henry Newman (1801-1890). He has published extensively on Newman’s life, theology, and philosophy, seeking a balance between theological and historical approaches. In 2022, he published the first comprehensive intellectual biography of the early Newman: An Evangelical Adrift: the Making of John Henry Newman’s Theology, with CUA Press. He has also published on Vatican II, medieval theology, and in philosophy (with Arnold Burms). One day a week, Geertjan works as a lay chaplain in Leuven Central Prison.