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Walter J. Ong, SJ, is university professor emeritus of humanities at Saint Louis University.
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Una M. Cadigan teaches in the history department at the University of Dayton.
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Paul Wilkes, writer, director, and coproducer of the documentary Merton: A Film Biography, is the author of numerous books, including Merton: By Those Who Knew Him Best.
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Paul Q. Kane, SJ, is co-director of Kateri Northwest Ministry Institute in Spokane, Washington.
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Patrick Allitt is associate professor of history at Emory University and author of Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome (Cornell University Press).
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Michael Baxter teaches in the theology department at the University of Notre Dame and lives and works at the Catholic Worker in South Bend, Indiana.
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Mary C. Segers is professor of political science at Rutgers University.
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John Deedy was Commonweal's managing editor from 1967 to 1978.
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James Hitchcock is professor of history at Saint Louis University.
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Marianist priest James Heft is chancellor and professor of faith and culture at the University of Dayton. He serves as vice-chair of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities.
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The Reverend Francis X. Meehan is pastor of Saints Simon and Jude, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
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Eugene McCarraher is associate professor of humanities and history at Villanova University. He is completing The Enchantments of Mammon: Corporate Capitalism and the American Moral Imagination.
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Dolores R. Leckey is executive director of the Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women, and Youth of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Dennis O’Brien is president emeritus of the University of Rochester and author of The Idea of a Catholic University (University of Chicago Press), among other books.
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David L. Schindler is professor of fundamental theology at the John Paul II Institute in Washington, D.C., and editor of the North American edition of Communio.
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David O'Brien is University Professor of Faith and Culture at the University of Dayton.
