The Rev. Johannes L. Jacobse is president of and John Couretas is executive director of the American Orthodox Institute, which promotes the voice of American Orthodox Christians in public life. They are based in Naples, Fla.

Gilberto Cardenas is director of the Institute for Latino Studies, which includes the Center for the Study of Latino Religions at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Ind.

He is professor emeritus of religious studies at Santa Clara University in California and author of Broken Bread and Broken Bodies: The Lord’s Supper and World Hunger.

The Rev. Alexia Salvatierra is a minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and executive director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice-California. She has been active in the New Sanctuary Movement and can discuss its organization on the national and local level.

Justice for Immigrants is a project of the Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform, a part of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. It is a coalition of many Catholic groups.

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life has a roundup of its resources on Catholicism and the pope to mark the milestones.

An April 1, 2010, Catholic News Service story assessing Benedict, five years in.

A lengthy analysis in the April 6, 2010, edition of the German magazine Spiegel.

An April 7, 2010, analysis defending the pope, “The Passion of Pope Benedict. Six Accusations, One Question,” from the Italian Vaticanista, Sandro Magister.