Angela Franks, Ph.D., is a theologian, speaker, writer, and mother of six. She serves as Professor of Theology at St. John's Seminary in Boston and as a Senior Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge. She is a Life and Dignity Writing Fellow for Church Life Journal (University of Notre Dame).

Her areas of specialty include the theology of the body, the New Evangelization, the Trinity, Christology, and the thought of John Paul II and Hans Urs von Balthasar. She is currently focused on bringing key ideas in contemporary Continental philosophy into conversation with the Catholic intellectual tradition. She is finishing a book manuscript entitled "The Body and Identity: Theological and Philosophical Anthropology in a World of Liquid Bodies and Empty Selves."

Smith Gilson received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce in Rome, and she is currently an associate professor of philosophy at the University of the Holy Cross in New Orleans.

She is the author of four books, "The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World," "The Philosophical Question of Christ," "The Political Dialogue of Nature and Grace" and her most recent, "Immediacy and Meaning: J.K. Huysmans and the Immemorial Origin of Metaphysics" (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Professor Smith Gilson is a member of the UK Centre of Theology and Philosophy and the American Maritain Association.

Dr. Steven A. Long is full professor of theology at Ave Maria University and ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. In 2022 , he began his term as president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Dr. Long is author of the following books: "Analogia Entis: On the Analogy of Being;" "Metaphysics, and the Act of Faith;" "Natura Pura: On the Recovery of Nature in the Doctrine of Grace;" and "The Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act." He also co- edited "Reason and the Rule of Faith: Conversations in the Tradition with John Paul II" with Christopher J . Thompson.

He has published scholarly articles in "The Thomist," "Nova et Vetera," "Communio," "New Blackfriars," "Revue thomiste," "Studies in Christian Ethics," "National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly," "International Philosophic Quarterly," and "First Things," as well as in numerous book- length collections of essays.

Dr. Alessandro Rovati is Department Chair and Assistant Professor of Theology at Belmont Abbey College. A graduate of the Università Cattolica in Milan, Italy, Dr. Rovati’s scholarship focuses on Christian Ethics, Moral Theology, and Catholic Social Teaching. He has published his work in peer-reviewed journals and online publications, and he is a Board Member of New Wine New Wineskins, an association of early-career Catholic moral theologians.