Mathew N. Schmalz is a professor of religious studies at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He specializes in global Catholicism, the papacy and Catholicism/culture issues in the U.S. He is the founder of the Journal of Global Catholicism and author of Mercy Matters (2015).

Rachel A.R. Bundang, a Bannan Fellow and lecturer in religious studies at Santa Clara University, can discuss Filipinas and Asian-American Catholics.

Anselm Kyongsuk Min is a professor of the philosophy of religion and theology at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, Calif.

Kirsten Oh is a doctoral student at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, Calif., who can discuss Asian-American evangelicals.

Marion S. Grau is assistant professor of theology at Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, Calif. Her interests include how Asian American religious people interact with Western ideas, and Asian American contributions to Christian theology.

Tat-siong Benny Liew, who is ordained in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), is associate professor of New Testament at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Calif. His interests include Asian-American history and literature.

Read a Nov. 1, 2007, CNN story about two Christian pastors embracing elements of Scientology for their congregations.

Adherents.com provides a list of the numbers of people who self-identify as members of major world religions.

Read a June 29, 2009, report on the pope’s comments about the encyclical, “In preview of new encyclical, Benedict reprises ‘dictatorship of relativism’ speech,” by National Catholic Reporter columnist John L. Allen Jr.