Authors

Rolf Achilles (www.rolfachilles.com) is an independent art historian and consultant with a special interest in the decorative arts.

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.

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.

Roberta Green Ahmanson is a writer, speaker, and philanthropist who focuses on art, culture, history, and Christianity. She lives in Southern California.

Matthew Alderman is an architect who lives and works in Concord, MA.

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.

Br. Philip Anderson is the abbot of Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey.

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.

Ethan Anthony is the principal of Hoyle, Doran & Berry Architects in Boston, the successor firm to Ralph Adams Cram.

Francis Cardinal Arinze is the Prefect of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments for the Roman Curia.

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. [email protected]

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.

Franz Alto Bauer and Michael Heinzelmann are scholars with the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, Italy.

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.

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.

Rev. Samuel Bellafiore is a priest of the Diocese of Albany, New York, who trained classically as a singer before ordination.

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.

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.

His Holiness Benedict XVI was Pope from 2005 to 2013.

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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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Jelena Bogdanović is the author of The Framing of Sacred Space: The Canopy and the Byzantine Church.

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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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).

Thomas P. Boyle is an architect at Ferguson & Shamamian Architects in New York. He studied architecture at the University of Notre Dame.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: [email protected]

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.

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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Michael Bursch is an architect in Washington, D.C.

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.

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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Rev. Joseph Carola, S.J. entered the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus in 1980 and was ordained priest in 1993. He is Ordinarius in the theology faculty at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and director of the department of patristic theology and the tradition of the Fathers. His historical novel about nineteenth-century Jesuits at the Roman College entitled Dragons: A Roman Requiem is due to be published in 2026.

Christopher Carstens is the Assistant Director of the Office of Sacred Worship for the Diocese of Lacrosse, Wisconsin.

School of Architecture Catholic University of America Washington, D.C.

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.

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.

Rev. Romanus Cessario, O.P., is a Dominican priest and theologian.

Piotr Choynowski is an architect practicing in Oslo, Norway.

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.

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.