January 1996

Antonio Spadaro, Contributing Writer

Antonio Spadaro is a Jesuit and undersecretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See. He served for twelve years as editor in chief of La Civiltà Cattolica. He was a recipient of an honorary doctorate in divinity from the School of Theology at Santa Clara University and is a full member of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon. He was chosen by Pope Francis for the pope’s first interview, which was later published as My Door Is Always Open (Bloomsbury Press). Author of numerous books on contemporary culture, art, and literature, Spadaro’s recent work includes Dialogues on Faith (Grand Central Publishing), a volume of conversations with Martin Scorsese. You can find him on X and Instagram. @antoniospadaro

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels, Contributing Writer

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels served as Commonweal’s editor, 1988-2002, was co-director of its “American Catholics in the Public Square Project,” and continues as a columnist and reviewer. She retired from Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture in 2012. Before all of that, she was editor of the Hastings Center Report, Christianity and Crisis, and Church magazine. She favors using a comma before and in a series, and loves semi-colons.