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Father Lope Lesigues is the associate pastor of the Church of the Presentation, Upper Saddle River, NJ. He earned his S.T.D. and Ph.D. in the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He is currently an affiliate professor at the Graduate School of Religion & Religious Studies in Fordham University, New York. He has recently been awarded a 3-month specialization scholarship for writing in Europe (2009). This paves the way for the publication of his two-volume book on theological and philosophical method.

Father Joseph R. Chapel, S.T.D., Associate Dean, Associate Professor, Christian Ethics, earned an M.A. in International Relations from the Paul S. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies [SAIS], The Johns Hopkins University. He also earned an S.T.L and S.T.D. from Accademia Alfonsiana (Lateran University) and an S.T.B. from The Gregorian University. His doctoral dissertation was titled: “Why Confess Our Sins Out Loud? An Analysis Based on the Dialogical Philosophy of Ferdinand Ebner in Light of the Philosophy of Language and the Symbolic Sacramentology of Louis-Marie Chauvet.” Ordained to the priesthood in 1992, Father Chapel teaches Christian Ethics and Preaching Practicum. Publications include “Why Confess Our Sins Out Loud? Some Possibilities Based on the Thought of Ferdinand Ebner and Louis-Marie Chauvet” (The Irish Theological Quarterly) and “Dialogical Personalisms Revisited” (Studia Moralia).