Contributors

RafaelLuciani. Venezuelan layman, Doctor of Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University. He received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at the Dominican Institute of Aquinas in the United States. He is a Professor Ordinarius at the Jesuit`s Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas, and has taught in several Universities in Latin America and North America. He currently teaches Ecclesiology, Latin American Theology, and the Second Vatican Council. He is an expert for CELAM (Latin American Episcopal Council) and a member of the theological advisory group to the presidency of CLAR (Latin American Confederation of Religious). He is co-coordinator of the intercontinental group of theologians and canonists Peter & Paul Seminar, serves as a member of the theological commission of the General Secretariat of the Synod for the synodal process (2021-2028) and was a Peritus at the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality.

Rebecca Malmquist lives in the Atlanta, GA area with her husband and daughter. She is a Definitively Promised Secular Carmelite, as well as a writer and retired teacher. She earned her B.A. and M.Ed. from Brenau University. She enjoys reading and studying Carmelite theology, and sharing spiritual theology with others through writing. Rebecca is also co-founder of the discussion group, Authentic Contemplative Prayer, now hosted on the Discord app. This group teaches about prayer in accordance with the Carmelite Doctors of the Church.

Robert Christian is the editor of Millennial, an online periodical on religion, politics, and culture by millennial Catholics.

Robert Fastiggi, Ph.D. is Professor of Systematic Theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, MI. He is a former president (2014–2016) of the Mariological Society of America; a member of the theological commission of the International Marian Association; and a corresponding member of the Pontifical Marian Academy International.