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Luis Javier Cuesta Hernández
Luis Javier Cuesta Hernández is the director of the department of art at the Universidad Iberoamericana, a Jesuit university in Mexico City.
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John A. Abruzzese
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Rolf Achilles
Rolf Achilles (www.rolfachilles.com) is an independent art historian and consultant with a special interest in the decorative arts.
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Ian Agrell
In 1981, Ian Agrell was elected to the Master Carvers Association, the oldest and most prestigious association of wood and stone ornamentation in the United Kingdom. Ian directs all projects as the principal at Agrell Architectural Carving, and also teaches at his School of Classical Carving. Agrell Architectural Carving has done many restoration projects in English parish churches; the organ case carving for Our Lady of the Angels, Worcester, MA; and the construction and decoration of the organ case for the Cathedral of Saint Paul, MN. He also constructed and carved a ‘throne’ and two side chairs for Pope John Paul II.
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Dale Ahlquist
Dale Ahlquist is President of the American Chesterton Society, publisher of Gilbert magazine, and co-founder of Chesterton Academy. He has written and lectured on G.K. Chesterton for over twenty-five years.
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Roberta G. Ahmanson
Roberta Green Ahmanson is a writer, speaker, and philanthropist who focuses on art, culture, history, and Christianity. She lives in Southern California.
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Matthew Alderman
Matthew Alderman is an architect who lives and works in Concord, MA.
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John Alexander
John Alexander is an architectural historian (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2001) who concentrates on the architectural patronage of Carlo Borromeo, and the architecture of the post-Tridentine Catholic Church. Fellowships and teaching positions afforded him several years in Rome, and his research takes him back to Milan and northern Italy regularly; since 2006 he has been on the faculty in the Department of Architecture at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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Br. Philip Anderson
Br. Philip Anderson is the abbot of Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey.
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Gary A. Anderson
Gary A. Anderson is the Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Thought at the University of Notre Dame. Among his recent books are Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition and Christian Doctrine and the Old Testament, from which this article is adapted.
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Ethan Anthony
Ethan Anthony is the principal of Hoyle, Doran & Berry Architects in Boston, the successor firm to Ralph Adams Cram.
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Francis Cardinal Arinze
Francis Cardinal Arinze is the Prefect of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments for the Roman Curia.
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Lisa Austin
Artist Lisa Austin collaborates with landscape architects, and others engaged with urban space, on social sculpture projects, public art and memorials; she reached three-dimensional design and sculpture at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. lisa@lisaaustinpa.com
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Stephen J. Baker
Stephen J. Baker, AIA, PhD, is a registered architect who has served the Catholic Church for over seventeen years in architecture, preservation, and liturgical furnishings. He is also a full-time instructor at the University of Colorado Denver and is currently working towards his PhD in Design and Planning at the University of Colorado’s College of Architecture and Planning. His dissertation is on the history of Catholic sacred architecture of Colorado.
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Franz Bauer
Franz Alto Bauer and Michael Heinzelmann are scholars with the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, Italy.
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Jason Baxter
Dr. Jason Baxter is assistant professor of humanities and art history at Wyoming Catholic College. His research focuses on the platonic influence on Dante’s Divine Comedy, the twelfth-century Gothic worldview, and the medieval roots of Renaissance humanism.
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Lauren Beaupre
Lauren Beaupre is a Ph.D. student in the History Department at the University of Notre Dame. She is currently researching the relationship between religion and urban development in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Rev. Samuel Bellafiore
Rev. Samuel Bellafiore is a priest of the Diocese of Albany, New York, who trained classically as a singer before ordination.
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Kurt Belsole, O.S.B.
Rev. Kurt Belsole, O.S.B. is a monk of Saint Vincent Archabbey. He has taught at both Saint Vincent Seminary, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and the Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm in Rome. He is presently the Director of Liturgical Formation at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.
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Reverend Kurt Belsole, O.S.B.
Reverend Kurt Belsole, O.S.B. is a Benedictine monk of Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and Director of Liturgical Formation at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He studied at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute at Sant’Anselmo in Rome and has a website at www.liftupyourhearts.church.
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His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
His Holiness Benedict XVI was Pope from 2005 to 2013.
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John Bergsma
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Julio Bermudez
Dr. Julio Bermudez is an Associate Professor who directs the Sacred Space and Cultural Studies graduate concentration at the Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning. He co-founded the Forum for Architecture, Culture and Spirituality in 2007 (www.acsforum.org ).
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Most Reverend Daniel Beuchlein, O.S.B.
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Christopher Olaf Blum
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Jelena Bogdanović
Jelena Bogdanović is the author of The Framing of Sacred Space: The Canopy and the Byzantine Church.
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Laura Bolondi
Laura Bolondi was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 1980. She has a degree in Architecture (Politecnico di Milano, 2005), a PhD in Technology and Management of Cultural Heritage (IMT Lucca, 2009) and a Master in Architecture, Sacred Art and Liturgy (Università Europea di Roma, 2010). Formerly post-doc researcher at TU Delft (the Netherlands, 2010-2012), she is co-founder of EcclesiaStudio Design for Sacred Architecture. www.ecclesiastudio.eu»
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Brian D. Boosel, O.S.B.
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Lex Bosman
Lex Bosman is Professor Emeritus of Architectural History at the University of Amsterdam, with a special interest in Early Christian and Medieval Architecture. He has been a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome and Scholar in Residence at the Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell’Arte in Florence. He is the author of many publications, including The Power of Tradition: Spolia in the Architecture of Saint Peter’s in the Vatican (2004).
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Thomas P. Boyle
Thomas P. Boyle is an architect at Ferguson & Shamamian Architects in New York. He studied architecture at the University of Notre Dame.
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Karla Britton
Karla Britton is a Professor of Art History at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona. She wrote Auguste Perret, the first monograph in English on the French architect, and edited Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture.
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Caroline Bruzelius
Caroline Bruzelius is Professor Emerita of Art and Art History at Duke University. Her most recent book is Preaching, Building and Burying: Friars in the Medieval City (Yale University Press, 2014), and she is working on a book entitled The Cathedral and the City.
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Gretchen Buggeln
Gretchen T. Buggeln holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christianity and the Arts at Valparaiso University. She is writing a book titled Faith in Place, defining a vernacular approach to the study of religious architecture.
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Duncan G. Stroik and John Burgee
Duncan G. Stroik is editor of Sacred Architecture Journal.
John Burgee worked for a number of decades with Philip Johnson. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture in 1956 and served as a trustee on the University’s Board of Trustees from 1988 to 2004, Emeritus Trustee to 2019, and Hesburgh Trustee 2019 to present.
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Christopher Burgwald
Chris Burgwald PhD is the Director of Evangelization and Catechesis for the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls in South Dakota. He earned his doctorate in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Email: chris.burgwald@gmail.com
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His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke
His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke is Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. He was bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse from 1995 to 2004.
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Anne Husted Burleigh
Anne Husted Burleigh is a free lance writer, the author of two books and numerous articles for a variety of journals. She lives on a farm in Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, overlooking the Ohio River, near Cincinnati. She is married to Bill Burleigh, a long-time journalist, and they have three children and seven grandchildren.
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John Burns
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Peter John Cameron, O.P.
Rev. Peter John Cameron, O.P., is chairman of the department of homiletics at Saint Joseph’s Seminary--Dunwoodie, New York, the artistic director of Blackfriars Repertory Theatre in New York City, and the editor-in-chief of Magnificat.
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Francis J. Caponi, O.S.A.
Rev. Francis J. Caponi, O.S.A. is a native of Philadelphia. He received his bachelor’s degree from Villanova University in 1983, his master’s degree from the Washington Theological Union in 1989, and his doctorate from Harvard University/School of Divinity in 2000. He has taught systematic theology at Villanova for the last decade. He has published essays in The Thomist, the International Journal of Systematic Theology, Dante Studies, and Horizons, and authored the chapter on Karl Rahner in Partakers of the Divine Nature: The History and Development of Theosis/Deification in the Christian Traditions [2007].
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Michael R. Carey
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Christopher Carstens
Christopher Carstens is the Assistant Director of the Office of Sacred Worship for the Diocese of Lacrosse, Wisconsin.
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Catholic University of America
School of Architecture Catholic University of America Washington, D.C.
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Nancy Cavadini
Nancy Cavadini is the author, with Cecilia Davis Cunningham, of Stories in Light: A Guide to the Stained Glass of the Basilica at the University of Notre Dame.
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Joanna Diane Caytas
Joanna Diane Caytas holds a BA in Mathematics summa cum laude from Columbia University and, after graduate work at the University of Oxford, is a Juris Doctor candidate at Columbia Law School.
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Piotr Choynowski
Piotr Choynowski is an architect practicing in Oslo, Norway.
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Anthony E. Clark and Amanda C. Roth Clark
Dr. Anthony E. Clark is an Associate Professor of East Asian history at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA, and his research centers on the history of Western missionaries in China. He is an author of several academic and popular works, including books and articles on Chinese historiography, cultural interaction between China and the West, and the history of Sino-Western religious and cultural re-presentation during China’s late imperial to early modern era. Dr. Amanda C. Roth Clark received her Doctor of Philosophy from The University of Alabama, and additionally holds degrees from the University of Oregon in the fields of Western architectural history and Asian art. She is coauthor with her father, Leland M. Roth, of Understanding Architecture, and is currently the director of the library at Whitworth University.
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Anthony E. Clark
Dr. Anthony E. Clark is the Edward B. Lindaman Endowed Chair and Professor of Chinese History at Whitworth University. His most recent book is China Gothic: The Bishop of Beijing and His Cathedral.
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John Cluver
John Cluver practices archicture and historic preservation in Philadelphia, PA as a partner in the firm Voith & Mactavish Architects LLP.
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Michael Coates
Michael Coates is a New Jersey native who has been conducting capital campaigns and development studies for churches in all corners of the nation for the last fifteen years with Guidance in Giving, Inc. He lives in Newnan, GA with his wife Jessica and their two sons, Matthew and Daniel.
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Nathan Cochran
Brother Nathan Cochran, O.S.B., is a monk of Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He is the Curator of the Saint Vincent Art Collections, Director of the Saint Vincent Gallery, and Chair of the Department of Visual Arts at Saint Vincent College.
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Sir J. Ninian Comper
Sir J. Ninian Comper was born to an Anglican vicar and his wife in 1864. He first studied under the stained glass artist C. E. Kempe, who favored a late medieval/early Renaissance style. He then studied under the Gothic revival architect G. F. Bodley, one of the designers of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
One of the last of the Gothic revival architects, he both designed and restored churches. His first original design was Saint Cyprian’s, Clarence Gate, in London. It featured an altar separated from the nave by a gilded rood screen topped with a large crucifix. Later churches incorporated classical elements as well. He defined his style as “unity by inclusion.”
Among other works, he designed eight stained glass windows on the north side of the nave of Westminster Abbey. When he died in 1960, his ashes were interred beneath those windows.
This essay by architect Sir J. Ninian Comper (1864-1960), originally titled “Of the Atmosphere of a Church,” was published as a book by Sheldon Press in 1947. Part I appeared in Issue 39.
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Bishop James D. Conley, STL
Most Reverend James D. Conley, STL, is the bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska. Before his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI to the see of Lincoln in September 2012, he served as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Denver under Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. He earned his Master's of Divinity from Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., in 1985 and a licentiate in moral theology from the Accademia Alfonsiana, part of the Faculty of Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.
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The Most Reverend James D. Conley
The Most Reverend James D. Conley was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Wichita in 1985. He was ordained in 2008 to the episcopacy and served as auxiliary bishop of Denver until his appointment as bishop of the Diocese of Lincoln by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012.
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Joseph Connors
Joseph Connors is Professor Emeritus of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and Michael C. Duda Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture, 2020-2022. He is the author of Borromini and the Roman Oratory and is completing a comprehensive monograph on Borromini.
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William R. Cook
William R. Cook is a distinguished Teaching Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY Geneseo and author of The Catholic Church: A History in the Great Courses series.
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Jean Corbon
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Salvatore J. Cordileone
The Most Rev. Salvatore J. Cordileone is Archbishop of San Francisco and the founder of the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship.
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José Cornélio da Silva
José Cornélio da Silva has been a practicing architect since 1983, working in traditional and classical architecture, conservation and restoration, and garden design. As an academic, he has taught in several American and European universities, and presently lives in Portugal.
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John J. Coughlin, OFM
Rev. John J. Coughlin, OFM, serves as Professor of Law and Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He received his doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and his J.D. from Harvard University. His latest book, Law, Person and Community will be published by Oxford University Press in late 2011.
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Norman Crowe
Norman Crowe is Professor Emeritus at the the University of Notre Dame's School of Architecture. He is the author of Nature and the Idea of a Man-Made World (MIT Press, 1995).
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Jaap Dawson
Jaap Dawson is an architect in Delft, The Netherlands, where he teaches architectural design at the Technische Universiteit. He grew up in Miami and in Holland, Michigan, studied literature at Cornell, depth psychology and theology at Union Theological Seminary, and received his doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Daniel P. DeGreve
Daniel P. DeGreve is an architect in Columbus, Ohio holding a Master of Architectural Design & Urbanism degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Cincinnati. Email: ddegreve@alumni.nd.edu
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Daniel P. DeGreve
Daniel P. DeGreve, R.A., practices traditional architecture in Columbus, Ohio. He has worked for Classical architects in Washington, D.C. and Columbus, earning his Master of Architectural Design & Urbanism from the University of Notre Dame and Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Cincinnati.
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Camilian Demetrescu
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Nathan Dennis
Nathan S. Dennis is Assistant Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at the University of San Francisco. He specializes in late-antique and early-medieval art, architecture, and theology in the Mediterranean and Levantine world.
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Michael E. DeSanctis
Michael E. DeSanctis, Ph.D. is Professor of Fine Arts and Director of the Honors Program at Gannon University in Erie, PA. He writes widely on Catholic church architecture and serves as a liturgical designer and consultant. He can be reached at desancti001@gannon.edu.
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Victor Deupi
Victor Deupi is a Lecturer at the University of Miami School of Architecture in Coral Gables, Florida. His book, Architectural Temperance: Spain and Rome 1700-1759, was published by Routledge in 2015.
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Hendrik Dey
Hendrik Dey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at Hunter College, CUNY. He is the author of The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, A.D. 271-855, with Cambridge University Press.
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Helen Dietz
Helen Dietz, PhD, who lives in the Chicago area, is currently completing a book on fifteenth-century Flemish liturgical painting.
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Thomas M. Dietz
A Minnesota native, Thomas M. Dietz received his education in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture and art at MIT. He is currently an architect in Chicago.
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Giles R. Dimock
Fr. Giles Dimock, OP, studied Liturgy at Notre Dame and at Sant' Anselmo, and theology at the Angelicum in Rome, earning a licentiate and doctorate respectively. He has taught at Providence College, Franciscan University in Steubenville, the Angelicum and the Dominican House of studies in Washington, DC. He has written many articles for liturgical and theological journals. He now serves as a parochial vicar at Saint Thomas Aquinas University Parish in Charlottesville, VA.
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Giles Dimock
Reverend Giles Dimock, O.P., S.T.D., studied liturgy at Notre Dame and at Sant’ Anselmo, and theology at the Angelicum in Rome. He has taught at Providence College, Franciscan University in Steubenville, the Angelicum and the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.
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Peter Dobrowski
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Moyra Doorly
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William Dowdy
William Dowdy is an associate with Anderson | Kim Architecture + Urban Design. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Chico, California.
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Jean Duchesne
Jean Duchesne is Emeritus Professor of English at Condorcet College in Paris. A founder of the French edition of Communio, he was Cardinal Lustiger’s Special Adviser and is now his literary executor.
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Kyle Dugdale
Kyle Dugdale is an architect, critic, and historian. He teaches history, theory, and design at Yale School of Architecture and at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
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Rev. Irenaeus Dunlevy, OP
Rev. Irenaeus Dunlevy, OP is an adjunct professor and assistant chaplain at Providence College. Before entering religious life, he was a practicing architect in Arlington, ,Virginia.
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Richard Economakis
Richard Economakis is associate professor of architecture at the University of Notre Dame. The author of several books, he is also a practicing architect.
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Terrence Ehrman, C.S.C.
Reverend Terrence Ehrman, C.S.C., teaches theology at Notre Dame and was previously assistant director of the university’s Center for Theology, Science, and Human Flourishing.
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Breda Ennis
Breda Catherine Ennis is Professor of Fine Arts at the American University of Rome, where she also hosts "Art on the Air" — a weekly art program on the secrets of Sacred Rome. Vatican Radio One-O-Five Live (Inspiration).
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Fr. Michael Enright
Fr. Michael Enright is pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in Chicago, Illinois.
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Michael Enright
Rev. Michael Enright is a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago and serves as pastor at Saint Paul Church in Chicago. Father Enright has written books and articles for publication, and enjoys stone carving.
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Anthony Esolen
Anthony Esolen is professor of classical literature at Thomas More College. His latest books are Real Music: A Guide to the Timeless Hymns of the Church and Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture. This article is adapted from chapter two of the second.
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Daniel Estivill
Rev. Daniel Estivill was born in 1950 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has been an architect since 1974 and served on the faculty of architecture at the National University of Buenos Aires. He was ordained a priest in 1982 and was Professor of Iconography and Iconology in the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome from 1997 to 2014.
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David W. Fagerberg
David W. Fagerberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, and director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy.
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Dennis Fleisher
A native of Rochester, NY, Dennis Fleisher has served as an acoustics consultant and a designer of spaces for worship, music performance, and education since 1981. The majority of his work has been in liturgical spaces including over 250 churches and chapels and 30 cathedrals. Dennis@musonics.org
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Cassian Folsom, OSB
Born in 1955 in Massachusetts, The Very Rev. Cassian Folsom, O.S.B. has been a monk since 1979 and a priest since 1984. He served as the pro-President of the Pontificio Istituto Liturgico at the Athenaeum of Sant' Anselmo from 1997 to 2000, and is the founding prior of the Monastery of San Benedetto, located in Norcia, Italy, the birthplace of St. Benedict. Father Cassian is also a member of the Society for Catholic Liturgy, and is the author of numerous studies on Roman Catholic liturgy. In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI named Father Cassian as a consulter to the Congregation on Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
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Scott Ford
Scott Ford, LEED-AP, is Executive Director of Community Investment in South Bend, IN. He has worked in urban planning and architecture, including with Moule & Polyzoides Architects, Duany Plater-Zyberk Associates, and McCrery Architects, and in economic development with Brailsford & Dunlavey and Detroit’s Greater Downtown Partnership. Scott holds an M.Arch from the University of Notre Dame and a M.Phil in Land Economics from the University of Cambridge.
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Domiane Forte
Dom Forte is an architect in Santa Barbara, California.
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His Holiness Pope Francis
This homily was given by His Holiness Pope Francis on January 1, 2016, the Solemnity of the Mother of God in the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy.
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Jack Freiberg
Jack Freiberg is professor of art history at Florida State University and the author of Bramante’s Tempietto, the Roman Renaissance, and the Spanish Crown.
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Pablo Alvarez Funes
Pablo Alvarez Funes practices architecture in Madrid, Spain, and has written and lectured on the history and theory of Spanish Architecture.
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Peter Funk, O.S.B.
Rev. Peter Funk, O.S.B. has been Prior of the Monastery of the Holy Cross, a contemplative Benedictine monastery in the Archdiocese of Chicago, since 2004.
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Edward H. Furey
Edward H. Furey represents the Keely Society of Enfield, Connecticut. keelysociety@yahoo.com
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Daniel Gallagher
Father Daniel Gallagher is currently stationed at the english desk at the Vatican Secretariat of State. A priest of the Diocese of Gaylord, he taught philosophy and theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary.
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Matthew Gallegos
Matthew E. Gallegos, PhD., is professor of architectural history in the College of Architecture at Texas Tech University and a registered architect.
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Bernardo Aparicio Garcia
President of Dappled Things
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Diana Garnett
Originally from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Diana Garnett received her Bachelor’s from the University of Virginia and Master of Arts in Public History from the University of South Carolina. She is an architectural historian at HDR, Inc. in Englewood, Colorado.
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