About This Issue

The breadth and depth of this issue on ecumenism clearly reveals the need for exploring this significant topic. Most of these contributors have been active in spheres of dialogues among Christians or interreligious relations among Jews and Muslims on the local, national and international levels. Mary Christine Athans, B.V.M., is professor emerita, St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity of the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) and adjunct faculty at Catholic Theological Union and Loyola University Chicago. John Borelli is Special Assistant for Interreligious Initiatives to President John J. DeGioia of Georgetown University and National Coordinator of Interreligious Relations and Dialogue for the U.S. Jesuit Conference. From 1997 to 2002, he served as Associate Director for the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Patrick W. Carey is the William J. Kelly Professor of Catholic Theology at Marquette University. Mark Clatterbuck teaches Humanities at Lancaster Country Day School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In September he will be Assistant Professor of Religion at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. Bishop John R. Cummins was the second Bishop of the Diocese of Oakland, 1977–2003. Brother Jeffrey Gros, F.S.C., is Distinguished Professor of Ecumenical and Historical Theology at Memphis Theological Seminary. He also serves as Dean of the Catholic Institute for Ecumenical leadership, a program for diocesan ecumenical officers. For ten years he was Director of Faith and Order for the National Council of Churches and for fourteen years he served as Associate Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the United States Catholic Conference. Monsignor John A. Radano was a staff member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity in Vatican City, 1984–2008, and was head of its Western Section. He is currently adjunct professor in the School of Theology at Seton Hall University. Ronald G. Roberson, C.S.P., holds a doctorate from The Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome and is currently Associate Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the international theological dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches.