Hans Roegele graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Science in History and Architecture. He received a Masters in Architecture from the University of Notre Dame, where he wrote his thesis on the development of town planning and ecclesiastical architecture in New England.
Rick Rojas writes for the LA Times.
Michael S. Rose is author of three books on church architecture: Ugly As Sin, The Renovation Manipulation, and In Tiers of Glory. He is editor of dellachiesa.com.
Cristiano Rosponi is an architect, director of the Agenzia per la Citta in Rome, Italy and co-editor of the catalog “Reconquering Sacred Space: the Church in the City of the Third Millennium” which accompanied an exhibition of new traditional churches exhibited in Rome during the Jubilee year.
Fr. Donald Rowe, SJ is presently an educational consultant to Catholic high schools and universities, mostly in the Chicago area. His work focuses on institutional planning, fund-raising, facility planning and program assessment.
Dr Janet Rutherford is an author in the fields of church history and patrology, specializing in the Eastern Fathers. She is Honorary Secretary of the Patristic Symposium in Maynooth, Ireland; Irish Correspondent to the International Association for Patristic Studies; and an editor of the Fota Liturgical Conference Series.
Reverend George Rutler is pastor of the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Manhattan. His latest books are He Spoke to Us and The Stories of Hymns.
Witold Rybczynski is emeritus professor of urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. His latest book is Charleston Fancy: Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City. This essay appeared in The American Interest, Vol. 15, No. 1, and is used with permission.
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Richard Sammons is a founding partner of Fairfax and Sammons Architecture, an award-winning architectural design firm with offices in both New York City and Palm Beach, Florida. He has taught at the
Prince of Wales’ Institute of Architecture in London, Pratt Institute in New York, and the University of Notre Dame in Rome.
The Most Reverend Alexander K. Sample was born in Montana in 1960, and studied at the Pontifical College Josephinum Seminary in Columbus, Ohio, before being ordained a priest for the Diocese of Marquette, Michigan, in 1990. His Excellency was ordained as Bishop of Marquette in 2006 and in 2013 was appointed the eleventh Archbishop of Portland, Oregon.
His Eminence Robert Cardinal Sarah is Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
Rev. John Saward is a Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, and priest-in-charge of the parish of Saints Gregory and Augustine in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, England.
Fr. Dan Scheidt is pastor of Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Mishawaka, IN, as well as Chaplain and theology instructor at Marian High School, Mishawaka.
Rev. Daniel Scheidt is the pastor of Saint Vincent de Paul Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Steven Schloeder, Ph.D., AIA, specializes in Catholic church architecture in projects across the country. He is preparing a revised and expanded edition of his Architecture in Communion (Ignatius Press, 1998). His work and writings can be seen at www.liturgicalenvirons.com.
Kathryn Schuth is a practicing architect in South Bend, Indiana.
John Beldon Scott is the Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor of the Arts, Emeritus, and former director of the School of Art & Art History at the University of Iowa. Expanded versions of this study have appeared in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and his book Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin.
Charles Scribner is the author of Bernini, Impresario of the Baroque and The Triumph of the Eucharist, on Rubens’ tapestries, among other books. His lecture, “The Real Bernini,” given at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, can be found on his website, www.charlesscribner.com.
Will Seath is a senior intern architect and project manager at McCrery Architects in Washington, D.C.
Heidemarie Seblatnig is an art historian and painter who lectures at the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria. She completed studies in the history of art and archeology at the University of Vienna.
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Steven W. Semes is Professor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame and author of The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and Historic Preservation (W. W. Norton & Co., 2009).
Melissa Shanks graduated from the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture and holds her architectural license in Indiana and Ohio. She currently focuses on accompanying pastors in thinking broadly to find creative solutions that bring more authentic beauty into their parishes.
John Sikorski, MTS, is a doctoral candidate in moral theology at the University of Notre Dame and a student of Wojtyła’s thought. His family is from Kraków and he has spent significant portions of his life there. Contact him at [email protected].
Randall Smith is Professor of Theology at the University of Saint Thomas in Houston, Texas. He is also a Research Fellow in the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas in Austin. He writes regularly for The Catholic Thing, and his latest book is From Here to Eternity: Reflections on Death, Immortality, and the Resurrection of the Body (Emmaus).
Thomas Gordon Smith, AIA, is principal of the firm Thomas Gordon Smith Architects and is professor of architecture at the University of Notre Dame. His design work at a Benedictine monastery in Oklahoma, a seminary in Nebraska and other ecclesiastical and civic projects can be seen at www.tgsarchitect.com
Andrew Wilson Smith is an itinerant sculptor, stone carver, and teacher. His recently completed project, The Twelve Apostles, was carved into the grand portal at Our Lady of the Annunciation Abbey Church, Clear Creek, Oklahoma. Images may be found at www.AndrewWilsonSmith.com.
Oddbjørn Sørmoen, Magister Artium in Art History from the University of Oslo, studied Restoration at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. He is currently Director of the Department for Church Buildings and Heritage Management, KA, but has a career as Senior Adviser to the Directorate for Cultural Heritage, Norway, and Special Adviser to English Heritage. He has also played a central role in the European network Future for Religious Heritage.
John Stamper Ph.D is an architect and architectural historian in the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture and the author of several books including The Architecture of Roman Temples: The Republic to the Middle Empire and Chicago's North Michigan Avenue: Planning and Development 1900-1930.
Father Randy Stice is a priest of the Diocese of Knoxville, TN, where he serves as the Director of the Office of Worship and Liturgy, the Diocesan Master of Ceremonies, and Associate Pastor of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He holds an STL in Systematic Theology from the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary and an MA in Liturgy from The Liturgical Institute.
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Rev. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., holds doctorates in school administration and theology. He is the founding editor of The Catholic Response and publisher of Newman House Press. Most recently, he launched a graduate program in Catholic school administration through Pontifex University.
Duncan G. Stroik is editor of Sacred Architecture Journal.
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Thomas D. Stroka is an architectural designer in Indiana.
Jem Sullivan, Ph.D., Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America, contributes essays on art to Magnificat.
Cody Joseph Swanson is an artist and instructor who resides in Florence, Italy with his wife and five children. He holds a Masters in Liturgy, Sacred Art and Architecture from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, and is a graduate of the Florence Academy of Art, where he also taught for five years. Swanson’s numerous award-winning works can be found all over the United States and Italy. In addition to his professional vocation as a sculptor he is also a board and faculty member of the Sacred Art School of Florence.
Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs is an oil painter in the perennial Western tradition. She lives in Saint Louis, Missouri, with her husband and four children.
James M. Thunder is an environmental lawyer who reviewed two books about his ancestor, A.W. Pugin, for SACRED ARCHITECTURE (Summer 1999). He is writing a book on Faith-Based Land Use Planning and welcomes comments.
James M. Thunder’s great-grandfather George Thunder married Pugin’s seventh child, Margaret. A Life Member of the Pugin Society, Ramsgate, UK, he has, for twenty years, made illustrated presentations on Pugin throughout the United States and has authored several articles about Pugin.
James Thunder is A.W.N. Pugin’s great-great-grandson; the publisher of “The Young Catholics Collection;” and a consultant to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops on end-of-life issues.
Sean J. Tobin is a Registered Architect and Fellow of the Institute for Classical Architecture.
Deacon Patrick Toole was named Chancellor of the Diocese of Bridgeport in 2022, and has served as episcopal delegate for administration since 2018. He was ordained to the permanent diaconate in June 2011 and is assigned to Saint Catherine of Siena Parish in Trumbull, Connecticut.
Shawn Tribe writes from London, Canada, has a degree specialized in classical and mediaeval philosophy and is founder and editor of the liturgical weblog, The New Liturgical Movement.
William Tronzo is a teaching professor at the University of California, San Diego and author of Saint Peter's in the Vatican.
V. Rev. William J. Turner, a priest and pastor in the Diocese of Lansing, Michigan, holds two doctoral degrees in the field of cultural anthropology, including the study of Catholic identity and its relationship to the Catholic church building. Email: [email protected]
Father D. Vincent Twomey, S.V.D., is Professor Emeritus of Theology at Saint Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, Ireland. A former doctoral student of Joseph Ratzinger, Twomey is the author of several books and articles, including The Dynamics of Liturgy: Joseph Ratzinger’s Theology of Liturgy: An Interpretation (Ignatius Press, 2022), of which this article is Chapter Three, Sacred Art and Architecture.
Monsignor Laurent Ulrich was appointed Archbishop of Paris in 2022.
Anatole Upart is a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, specializing in Italian Renaissance architectural history. His current research examines effects of religious communities on the built environment in the Early Modern period as well as in the twentieth century.