Contributor Notes

Andrea Ciliotta-Rubery is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the State University of New York-Brockport. She has published articles on Machiavelli's impact on Christianity in the Journal of Political Science, and PS: Political Science and Politics among other publications.

Thomas F. Dailey, O.S.F.S., is Professor of Theology and founding director of the Salesian Center for Faith and Culture, DeSales University (Center Valley, Penn.), where he also is the faculty advisor to their nationally ranked baseball team. Author of Praying with Francis de Sales, his current work engages the tradition of Salesian spirituality, the teaching of John Paul II, and contemporary culture.

J. L. A. Garcia is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is also on the editorial board of Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture. His work on normative ethical theory, consequentialism, axiology, action theory, medical ethics, and the intersection of race and philosophy has appeared in dozens of philosophical journals, collections, and reference works.

Lawrence F. Hundersmarck is Edward J. Mortola Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Pace University in New York. He teaches religion and philosophy and is author of numerous articles and studies on the Renaissance and the Middle Ages, Eastern literature, and great thinkers of the Eastern and Western worlds.

Soo Yun Kang is Associate Professor of Art History at Chicago State University. She is author of several articles on Rouault and other artists. Her primary areas of research are Christian iconography and women artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

James Pereiro is a priest of the Opus Dei Prelature and holds degrees in history, theology, and education. He has written articles in history and theology and is author of a biography on Cardinal Manning. He is currently chaplain of Grandpont House in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Elizabeth Rapley obtained her doctorate at the University of Ottawa. She has studied church history and theology in Canada and abroad. She has published two books on religious women of ancien régime France: The Dévotes and A Social History of the Cloister.

George Weigel is John M. Olin Chair in Religion and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he is a senior fellow. The author or editor of fourteen books, he is one of the world's leading commentators on Catholic issues. His book, Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II, has been published in eight languages and is an international bestseller.

Joseph M. Zycinski is Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. He is also Archbishop of Lublin and Grand Chancellor of the Catholic University of Lublin. He serves as a member of the European Academy of Science and Art, the Pontifical Council for Culture, and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He is author of nearly forty books in philosophy of science, relativistic cosmology, and the history of the relationship between natural sciences and Christian faith.