Stephen Happel was, at the time of his death in 2003, Dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. His books include Metaphors for God's Time in Science and Religion (2002) and A Catholic Vision (co-authored with David Tracy; Fortress Press, 1984). James J. Walter is the Austin and Ann O'Malley Professor of Bioethics and Chair of the Bioethics Institute at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. He is co-author of Contemporary Issues in Bioethics: A Catholic Perspective (2005) and co-editor of A Call to Fidelity: On the Moral Theology of Charles E. Curran (2002).

