Ulrich Lehner is an associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. He knew Pope Benedict XVI personally and studied in his department at the University of Regensburg in Germany. His areas of expertise include the history of Christianity after 1500 and global Catholic studies, as well as gender and race in the […]

Eli Coleman is director of the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He is widely cited on issues related to sexual abuse by clergy.

Anna Salter is a consultant and author on sexual abuse, sex offenders and victimization. She also evaluates sex offenders for civil commitment proceedings and testifies as an expert witness in sexual abuse civil and criminal cases. Salter earned a doctorate in clinical psychology and public practice from Harvard University and served on the faculty of Dartmouth […]

Read a July 8, 2013, column published by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel about the effect the Catholic Church’s history of predacious clergymen has had on the faith of their congregations.

Derek S. Jeffreys is an associate professor of humanistic studies and religion at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He is the author of a 2009 book, Spirituality and the Ethics of Torture.

Dave Gorak is executive director of the Midwest Coalition to Reduce Immigration, which is based in LaValle, Wis. He is critical of the New Sanctuary Movement and its supporters.

John C. McAdams is a political scientist at Marquette University in Milwaukee whose research focuses on congressional politics, social class and elections and capital punishment. He has written that he favors capital punishment, even if it doesn’t work as a deterrent.

Michael K. Duffey is an associate professor of ethics at Marquette University in Milwaukee. He specializes in peace and justice issues, and his publications include Sowing Justice, Reaping Peace: Case Studies of Racial, Religious and Ethnic Healing Around the World.

Dr. Steven R. Leuthner is associate professor of pediatrics and bioethics at the Health Policy Institute of the Wisconsin College of Medicine in Milwaukee. He is the author of “Decisions Regarding Resuscitation of the Extremely Premature Infant and Models of Best Interest” in the April/May 2001 Journal of Perinatology and co-author of “End-of-Life Care for Neonates and Infants: The […]