Position Papers – Review of books
Rev C. John McCloskey III is a Catholic priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei and member of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross. He is the former director of the Catholic Information Centre of the Archdiocese of Washington. Website: www.frmccloskey.com.
Bishop-elect Robert Barron is an author, speaker, theologian, and founder of Word on Fire, a global media ministry.
Anthony Esolen is a professor of English at Providence College. He is the author of works such as Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity, Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child, The Beauty of the Word: A Running Commentary on the Roman Missal. He is a graduate of Princeton and the University of North Carolina. Anthony Esolen is on the advisory board of the Catholic Education Resource Center.
Bishop-elect Robert Barron is an author, speaker, theologian, and founder of Word on Fire, a global media ministry.
Fr Kevin O’Reilly OP, formerly taught at the Milltown Institute, Dublin, and holds doctorates in both philosophy and theology. In the forthcoming academic year he will teach moral theology at the Angelicum University, Rome.
Dr Helen Watt is Senior Research Fellow at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in the UK.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Senior Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at The Harvard Kennedy School, a Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ayaan was named one of TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” of 2005, one of the Glamour Heroes of 2005 and Reader’s Digest’s European of the Year for 2005. She is the best selling author of Infidel and Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now.