José Ignacio González Faus was born in Valencia, Spain, in 1935. He has a PhD in Theology from Innsbruck and is currently Professor of Theology and Director of the Centro de Estudios Cristianismo y Justicia in Barcelona. He is dedicated to the promotion and defense of freedom and justice within the framework of an integral vision of the human person. His numerous published works include La humanidad nueva. Ensayo de cristologia (1974), Acceso a Jesus (1979), El proyecto hermano. Visión creyente del hombre (1989), Ningun obispo impuesto (1992) and Where...

Fernanda Soza holds a Law degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, a Master of Laws degree from Boston College (2015) and has been admitted to the Bar in Chile (2002) and Massachusetts (June 2017). She was the Director of San Sebastian University Law School in the south of Chile (2012-2013) and a Judicial Intern-Law Clerk for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (2015- 2016). Fernanda is a Visiting Scholar at Boston College Law School since 2017, researching, organizing an international conference, and now publishing the edited translation on Hurtado s...

Raised in a mud-brick bungalow in Nigeria, Francis Arinze began his life in Eziowelle, in Anambra State, in Africa's most populous country. Arinze studied theology in Rome and in 1958 was ordained a priest. After ordination, Father Arinze remained in Rome where he earned a Master's degree in theology in 1959. The following year, he earned his Ph.D. in sacred theology, summa cum laude; his doctoral thesis on "Ibo Sacrifice as an Introduction to the Catechesis of Holy Mass" was the basis for his much-referenced, "Sacrifice in Ibo Religion," published...

Francis Cardinal George, OMI, is the president of the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops. He has served as vicar general of the Oblates; Bishop of Yakima, Washington; and archbishop of Chicago. He was elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pope John Paul II in 1998. He lives in Chicago.

Francis R. Smith, S.J., teaches in the Dept. of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California. He lives in Santa Clara, California.