Senior Fellows

Father Thomas Acklin, O.S.B., Senior Fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, is a spiritual director and theologian who serves as Director of Counseling at St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Father Acklin is the author of The Passion of the Lamb: God’s Love Poured Out in Jesus (Servant, 2006), and The Unchanging Heart […]

Dr. Joseph C. Atkinson is the Associate Professor of Sacred Scripture at the John Paul II Institute at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. and is a leading expert in the theology of the domestic church. He has done extensive and ground-breaking research in the Biblical and theological foundations of the family’s role

Dr. William Bales, a Senior Fellow of The St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, is a Professor of Sacred Scripture at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from The Catholic University of America and a Master’s degree in Theology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he concentrated in

Lawrence is Assistant Professor of Theology at Ave Maria University’s Institute for Pastoral Theology.  He converted to Catholicism in 1989 together with his wife, while engaged in realist marble sculpture in Pietrasanta, Italy. He then studied philosophy and theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome from 1990 to 1999, earning a

Associate Professor, Department of Theology (B.A., Augsburg College; M.Div., Luther Northwestern Seminary; M.A., St. John’s University (Collegeville); S.T.M., Yale Divinity School; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University) Profile Fagerberg’s area is liturgical theology: its definition and methodology, sacramental theology, and liturgiology. His work has explored how the Church’s lex credendi (law of belief) is grounded on

Bishop Robert Barron is an acclaimed author, speaker, and theologian. He is the Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at Mundelein Seminary near Chicago and also is the founder of Word On Fire (http://www.WordOnFire.org). Bishop Barron is the creator and host of CATHOLICISM, a groundbreaking ten-part documentary series and study program about the

Richard H. Bulzacchelli, S.T.D. is Associate Professor of Theology at Aquinas College, in Nashville, Tennessee.  Bulzacchelli took his B.A. in philosophy at Saint Vincent College, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, before moving on to an M.A. in Christian philosophy at Marquette University, and an M.A. in religious studies at Providence College. He then continued his academic formation

Dr. Matthew Bunson, Senior Fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, is one of the United States’ leading authorities on the papacy and the Church. His books include: The Encyclopedia of Catholic History; The Encyclopedia of Saints; Papal Wisdom; All Shall Be Well; Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire; and The Angelic Doctor: The

Dr. Aaron Canty is Professor of Religious Studies and Theology at Saint Xavier University. He is author of Light and Glory: The Transfiguration of Christ in Early Franciscan and Dominican Theology (The Catholic University of America Press, 2011), co-editor, with Franklin T. Harkins, of A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages (Brill, 2017) and

Rev. Sebastian Carnazzo, PhD, is a priest in the Melkite Catholic Church of America and pastor of the St. Elias Melkite Parish in San Jose (steliasmelkite.org).  He received his BS from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, in Animal Science with a concentration in veterinary medicine.  He then went on to receive his MA in Theology