Contributor Notes

Romanus Cessario, OP, is a professor of theology at St. John's Seminary in Boston. He has published numerous articles and books on moral theology and on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. His latest book is A Short History of Thomism.

John Henry Crosby is the founder and director of the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project, which exists to engage contemporary thought and culture by uncovering and disseminating the buried treasure of Dietrich von Hildebrand's thought and witness. Crosby is presently translating the anti-Nazi essays and wartime memoirs of Hildebrand, which, together with Hildebrand's masterpiece, The Nature of Love, will be published in early 2007. For more on Hildebrand and the Legacy Project, please visit http://www .hildebrandlegacy.org.

J. L. A. Garcia is a professor of philosophy at Boston College. He is also on the editorial board of Logos. His work on normative ethical theory, consequentialism, the moral virtues, axiology, action theory, medical ethics, and the intersection of race and philosophy has appeared in dozens of philosophical journals, collections, and reference works.

H. Wendell Howard is professor emeritus of English at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York. He is also retired as a choral conductor, a forty-year career that he began after receiving a diploma in voice from the Julliard School of Music. He earned his PhD in English and music from the University of Minnesota. As an author, he has published over 150 articles, poems, and chapters in books, and his work has appeared several times in the pages of Logos.

Andreas Laun was born in Vienna in 1942. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1967 as a member of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales. He served as a professor of moral theology in Heiligenkreuz, near Vienna, and since 1995 has been auxiliary bishop of Salzburg, where he is responsible for the pastoral care of families. Laun continues to teach and write as a moral theologian and is presently preparing textbooks for religion education. He has written several books on subjects of contemporary relevance and publishes regularly in a Catholic monthly journal.

Nathan Leþer is currently working on a doctorate in systematic theology at The Catholic University of America. In addition to theological aesthetics, his interests include issues of textual, especially biblical, interpretation and the relations between monastic and scholastic theology in the high Middle Ages. Nathan lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, with his wife, Annie.

Paul Murray, OP, is a professor of spiritual theology at the Angelicum University in Rome and Spiritual Director at the Convitto Internazionale S. Tommaso. Among his theological publications are T. S. Eliot and Mysticism (1991), Preachers at Prayer (2004), and most recently, The NewWine of Dominican Spirituality:A Drink Called Happiness (2006). He has also published four books of poetry, one of which was awarded Poetry Ireland Choice. His latest volume of poetry is titled These Black Stars