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Larry Morgan, PE, is Client Services Manager and Senior Engineer at TKDA, Saint Paul, Minnesota. This article summarizes remarks made at a Centennial lecture earlier this year and presentations made throughout the Twin Cities.

Rev. Michael Morris, O.P., is professor of Art History at Berkeley and author of a monthly column on sacred art in Magnificat.

Ralph Muldrow is an architect and the Simons Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. His design and preservation work includes numerous churches.

Julian Murphy is a graduate architecture student at the University of Notre Dame.

Robert T. Murphy, a member of the Society of Architectural Historians, earned his M.A. at New York University. His proposed doctoral dissertation on the history of U.S. Catholic Church architecture included a chapter on Patrick Keely.

Stephen Murray, PhD, was educated at Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. He has been teaching Art History at Columbia University since 1986. His publications include books on the cathedrals at Amiens, Beauvais, and Troyes; his current work is on medieval sermons, story-telling in Gothic, and the Romanesque architecture of the Bourbonnais.

Reverend Aidan Nichols, O.P. is the prior of the Dominican Priory of Saint Michael the Archangel, Cambridge, and a prolific theologian. He is a scholar of the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar and of the Russian theological tradition, among other schools of thought.

Philip Nielsen has studied both theology and architecture at the graduate level at the University of Notre Dame. He has written on aesthetics for various journals, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and Ignatius Press.

Rev. Dr. Matthew Niermann serves as the Associate Dean of the College of Architecture, Visual Arts and Design at California Baptist University. Situated at the intersection of architectural empirical aesthetics and Christian missiology, Matthew’s research explores the contextual compatibility of Protestant church design in the United States.

Dom Benedict Nivakoff, O.S.B., has been prior of the Benedictine Abbey in Norcia since 2016.

Thomas F.X. Noble, Ph.D., is a professor of medieval history at the University of Notre Dame. He won the 2011 Otto Gründler Book Prize for his book Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. He currently serves as the President of the American Catholic Historical Association.

James O'Brien is a priest in Ireland.

Fr. Mark Francis O’Malley, a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark, received a licentiate and doctorate in ecclesiastical history from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. He serves as rector of the St. Andrew’s Hall College Seminary of Seton Hall University and is assistant professor of Church history at Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology of Seton Hall University.

Timothy O’Malley is managing director of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life and the author of Bored Again Catholic: How the Mass Could Save Your Life and other books.

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Eric R. Osth, AIA, LEED AP is a principal and the architecture studio director at Urban Design Associates in Pittsburgh, PA. He is a member of the Congress of New Urbanism and the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America and a member of the Board of Directors for the Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

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Andrea Pacciani practices architecture and urban design in Parma, Italy. www.andreapacciani.com

Timothy K. Parker, PhD, is an architect and an associate professor of architectural history and theory in the School of Architecture + Art at Norwich University.

Nicholas N. Patricios is Professor and Dean Emeritus in the School of Architecture at the University of Miami. He is the author of Sacred Architecture and Art of Four Byzantine Capitals and The Sacred Architecture of Byzantium: Art, Liturgy and Symbolism in Early Christian Churches.

Michael Patrick is an Architect at Barnes Vanze Architects in Washington, D.C., leading current and recent projects at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.; Saint Mary’s Catholic Church in Alexandria, Virginia; the Church of Our Saviour at Oatlands in Leesburg, Virginia; the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C.; and the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Columbia, Maryland, among others. He has been a licensed architect since 1996.

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George Cardinal Pell was the first prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy when it was created in 2014. He served in that role until 2019. This article is adapted from an address given in Rome at the “Real Estate and the New Evangelization” Conference in April 2022, co-hosted by the Global Institute for Church Management and the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate at the University of Notre Dame.

Peter Pennoyer is an architect, historian, and teacher, and the author, with Anne Walker, of Harrie T. Lindeberg and the American Country House (The Monacelli Press). This article is a shortened version of “The Past and Future of Notre Dame,” which appeared in the June 2019 issue of The New Criterion.

Julio Cesar Perez-Hernandez is an Associate Professor of the Practice at the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture who has developed a career as an academic and a practitioner. He is the author of the books Inside Cuba (2004) and Inside Havana (2011), both published by Taschen Editorial, and of two forthcoming books to be published by Andelani Press (Puerto Rico) in 2023 and 2024.

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William Pesson is an architect with the ARCAS agency and an architectural historian. He has published several essays and books on the themes of historic and sacred architecture. He is the founder of the ARCAS/Vieilles Maisons Françaises Prize for the safeguarding of twentieth-century heritage, which has contributed to the financing of church restorations in France.

Dianne Phillips is an art historian specializing in late medieval Italian art. She lectures on religious imagery to parish groups and college classes.

Joel Pidel is a native of Augusta, Georgia, and practices traditional architecture in New Canaan, Connecticut, residing nearby with his wife and children. He attended the University of Notre Dame where he studied architecture and philosophy, graduating in 2005, and practicing architecture in New York City for the next 11 years. His architectural and illustrative work has been published in books and magazines.

Alphonso Lopez Pinto is a theologian who researches sacred art. He is passionate about bringing the richness of the Catholic heritage to the faithful.

His Holiness Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina. Elected in 2013, this was his third World Youth Day as Pope.

William L. Portier serves as the Mary Ann Spearin Chair of Catholic Theology in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Dayton. His most recent book is Divided Friends, Portraits of the Roman Catholic Modernist Crisis in the United States (CUA Press, 2013).

Paolo Portoghesi is an Italian architect, theorist, historian and professor of architecture at the University of La Sapienza in Rome, author of multiple books and frequent contributor to L'Osservatore Romano.

John Powers is president of the Bricks and Mortar Foundation based in Evanston, IL. The foundation supports the preservation of the Midwest’s historic religious architecture.

Robert F. Prevost, OSA, was elected Pope Leo XIV on May 8, 2025.

Elisabetta Procida is an Italian architectural historian specializing in the work of architects in interwar Rome, with particular focus on Armando Brasini (1879-1965). From 2000 to 2018, she was curator of Brasini’s private archive. Her publications include La sede storica dell’INAIL a Roma: il palazzo in via IV Novembre, a 2019 scholarly study of one of Brasini’s most important buildings in Rome.

Elisabetta Procida is an Italian architectural historian specializing in the work of architects in interwar Rome, with particular focus on Armando Brasini (1879-1965). From 2000 to 2018, she was curator of Brasini’s private archive. Her publications include La sede storica dell’INAIL a Roma: il palazzo in via IV Novembre, a 2019 scholarly study of one of Brasini’s most important buildings in Rome.

Steven W. Semes is Professor of Architecture and Director of the Michael Christopher Duda Center for Preservation, Resilience, and Sustainability at the University of Notre Dame. He is translator and co-editor of New Building in Old Cities: Writings by Gustavo Giovannoni on Architectural and Urban Conservation (2024) and author of The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and Historic Preservation (2009) and The Architecture of the Classical Interior (2004).

Joseph Prud’homme is Director of the Institute for Religion, Politics and Culture and Associate Professor of Political Science at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.

Virginia Chieffo Raguin is professor of art history and the John E. Brooks Chair in the Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross. She has published widely on stained glass and architecture, including Stained Glass from its Origins to the Present, 2003. Her exhibition “Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam,” will appear in Worcester, Chicago, Richmond, and New York from 2010 through 2011.

Virginia Raguin is Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the College of the Holy Cross. Among her many books is Stained Glass: From Its Origins to the Present and Stained Glass: Radiant Art.

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, regarded as one of the world’s foremost theologians, wrote numerous books and articles on theology and spirituality. He served as His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI from 2005-2013, and died on December 31, 2022.

Thomas Norman Rajkovich is the founder and Director of a highly respected practice in Evanston, Illinois undertaking commissions for classical architecture, formal landscape and urban design. He studied at the University of Notre Dame and the American Academy in Rome, has been recognized as one of the top forty architects of his generation in the United States and dedicates substantial time to academic pursuits, including university teaching.

Matthew Reeve is associate professor of art history at Queen’s University in Ontario. His Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole will be published next year.

Aaron M. Renn is an urban analyst whose writings appear at the Urbanophile (www.urbanophile.com») and elsewhere. He is also the founder of the urban data analytics service Telestrian (www.telestrian.com»). Special thanks to Todd J. Murphy and Dwight Gibson for their comments and contributions to this article.

The Most Rev. Kevin C. Rhoades was born in 1957 in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, and raised in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He studied at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia and at the Pontifical Gregorian University. Ordained a priest for the Diocese of Harrisburg in 1983, he did advanced studies in theology and canon law in Rome. After serving as rector of Mount Saint Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, he was ordained Bishop of Harrisburg in 2004 and appointed ninth Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend in 2009.

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Cardinal Rigali, former papal chamberlain to His Holiness Paul VI and Archbishop of St. Louis, currently serves as the Archbishop of Philadelphia. He is a member of the Committee on Diving Worship, the Ad Hoc Committee on the Review of Scripture Translations and is President of the Board of Directors of the Black and Indian Mission Office. His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI appointed Cardinal Rigali a member of the Vatican Congregation for Bishops in September 2007. The Cardinal is also member of the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. He is also a member of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See. The Cardinal is on the Board of Trustees of The Catholic University of America. He is also on the Board of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. and the Chair of the Iconography Committee.

Patrick James Riley holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and a Master's Degree in Architecture from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. He has practiced architecture in Milwaukee, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area. He currently works for the firm of Michael Ross-Charles Drulis Architects and Planners in Sonoma, CA.

John Martin Robinson is a British architectural historian. He has written twenty-eight books, including the definitive history of James Wyatt, architect to George III, published by Yale University Press in 2012. He is currently writing the official history of the Travellers Club, Charles Barry’s first Italianate masterpiece. He lives in London and Lancashire.

Sister Joan L. Roccasalvo, C.S.J., writes from New York City. Her scholarly research focuses on the relationship between the arts, faith, and culture. She holds PhDs in musicology and in liturgical studies.