J. Paul Rajashekar is dean and Luther D. Reed Professor of Systematic Theology at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.

Greg Tobin is senior adviser for communications at Seton Hall University in New Jersey and author of Holy Father: Pope Benedict XVI: Pontiff for a New Era.

Sang Hyun Lee, an ordained Presbyterian minister, is Kyung-Chik Han Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and directs the program for Asian-American theology and ministry.

Su Yon Pak, vice president for institutional advancement at Union Theological Seminary in New York, is co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Asian North American Religion, Culture and Society Group.

The Rev. Thomas G. Guarino is a professor of systematic theology at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. He has written on the theological vision of Joseph Ratzinger.

Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, is the son of Indian immigrants. He grew up Hindu but converted to Catholicism. Contact via Mike Reed, director of communications.

The National Catholic Reporter has a June 22, 2009, podcast and summary of a story, “Jesuit sees convergence of U.S., Vatican policies,” featuring an interview with the Rev. Thomas Reese about relations between the Vatican and the Obama administration.

Read a June 22, 2009, National Catholic Reporter story, “Progressive Catholics at home in Obama administration.”

Read a June 22, 2009, analysis of the encyclical’s themes, “Economic encyclical expands on church’s ‘best kept secret’,” by National Catholic Reporter columnist John L. Allen Jr.