Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope on March 13, 2013, taking the name Francis after St. Francis of Assisi. His priestly ordination was in 1969, and in 1992, he was consecrated auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and given the titular see of Auca. He became Buenos Aires’s coadjutor bishop in 1997, succeeded as the see’s archbishop the following year, and was elevated to cardinal in 2001. He is the author of The Power to Serve. Gustavo Larrázabal, CMF, is a Claretian missionary from Argentina. He is the former publisher of...

Phyllis Zagano is a founding cochair of the Roman Catholic Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion—the world’s largest society of scholars of religion—and author or editor of fifteen other books. She holds five academic degrees and has taught at major universities on the East Coast.

Raymond A. Lucker (1927-2001) was Bishop of New Ulm, Minnesota. Active in the post-conciliar renewal of catechesis and liturgy, he was also an advocate for expanded ministerial roles for women in the Church.

Raymond F. Collins, a Roman Catholic priest, is professor of the New Testament and former dean at The Catholic University of America. From 1970–1993, he was professor of the New Testament at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.

Raymund Schwager, S.J., was professor of dogmatics and ecumenical theology at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. His books focus on biblical issues and include Jesus of Nazareth: How He Understood His Life.

Rebecca Moore has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Marquette University (1996), where her specialty was Jewish and Christian dialogue. She served as Chair and Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at San Diego State University, where she was also Interim Chair of Classics and Humanities; she also taught Religious Studies at the University of North Dakota, Saint Norbert College, and other institutions. She has written and published on medieval Christian theologians and their debt to Jewish biblical commentary, most notably Jews and Christians in the Life and Thought of Hugh...