Contributor Notes

Tad Dunne, Ph.D., serves on a hospital ethics committee and as research associate for Blue Cross. He is the auhor of We Love You, Matty: Meeting Death with Faith (Baywood), Enneatypes: Method and Spirit (Universal), and Lonergan and Spirituality (Loyola). He also provides weekly drawings for America.

Fr. William Fey teaches philosophy and has directed the Capuchin post-novitiate program in Papua New Guinea since 1988. In 1996 he was appointed Secretary for Ecumenism for the Catholic Bishops Conference of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands and in 2000 was appointed Dean of Studies at the Catholic Theological Institute of Port Moresby. His publications include Faith and Doubt: The Unfolding of Newman's Thought on Certainty, "The Development of Doctrine and the Spiritual Development of the Believer" in Louvain Studies, and many articles in journals in the South Pacific.

Stephen Fields, S.J. is a Jesuit priest and associate professor of theology at Georgetown University. He holds a Ph.D. in the philosophy of religion from Yale and an S.T.L. and M.A. from Oxford University. He has recently published a book, Being as Symbol: On the Origins and Development of Karl Rahner's Metaphysics (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000). He has been president of the Jesuit Philosophical Association and served on the board of trustees of Theological Studies.

Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., has been Archbishop of Chicago since 1997, and in 1998 was elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals. Born in Chicago, Cardinal George studied theology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He earned a master's degree in philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and a doctorate in American philosophy at Tulane University. He also received a master's degree in theology from the University of Ottawa and a Doctorate of Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University, Urbaniana, Rome. Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Yakima in Washington in 1990 and then Archbishop of Portland in Oregon in 1996.

Jacques Janssen is a professor in the department of psychology of culture and religion at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He has published several articles and books on youth culture, religion, and especially the religion of youth (image of God, praying-practices). In 1999 he published an annotated Dutch translation of Dante Alighieri's Hell. He sings in the Gregorian choir "Karolus Magnus" that edited several CD's, lastly a double CD titled La Divina Commedia Gregoriana.

Thomas D. Kennedy chairs the department of philosophy at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, and is currently at work on a book of postmodern vices.

Guy Mansini, O.S.B., is associate professor and chairman of the department of systematic theology, Saint Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Indiana. He was the host last year at Saint Meinrad of "Christian Distinctions and Theological Disclosures," a symposium in honor of Msgr. Robert Sokolowski.

Dennis D. Martin teaches historical theology through the lives of the saints and the life and writings of John Paul II at Loyola University Chicago. He has published on medieval monastic history and spirituality (Carthusian Spirituality [New York, 1997]) and translated works by Hans Urs von Balthasar and Adrienne von Speyr into English.

Paul Murray, O.P., is professor of spiritual theology at the Angelicum University in Rome and Spiritual Director at the Convitto Internazionale S. Tommaso. Among his theological publications are The Mysticism Debate (1977) and T. S. Eliot and Mysticism (1991). He has also published three books of poetry, one of which was awarded Poetry Ireland Choice.

Michael A. Smith is a priest of the diocese of Pembroke in Canada, and is associate professor of philosophy at St. Peter's Seminary, London, Ontario.

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