Peter Pavia

    Peter Pavia is the author of The Cuba Project and Dutch Uncle, a novel. His work has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, Diner Journal, and many other publications.
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Grace Maffucci

    Grace Maffucci is a young professional in Providence, RI who is passionate about the arts and furthering the prolife cause. An immigration paralegal by day and jazz singer by night, Grace spent last year in Puebla, Mexico as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, working as an...
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Maria McFadden Maffucci

  Maria McFadden Maffucci is editor in chief of the Human Life Review; she was editor (1998-2020) executive editor (1996-1998), and managing editor (1990-1996). Mrs. Maffucci was previously managing editor of the monthly journal First Things  (1989-1990); and of the...
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Clare McCallan

      Clare McCallan is a host on CatholicTV (“The Renaissance Room”, “This is the Day”) and author with Ave Maria Press (“Courage to Create”). She is currently serving as the Creative Director of St. Joseph’s Home for Artisans, a Catholic artist residency in...
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Diane Moriarty

    Diane Moriarty is a free-lance writer living in Manhattan.  She previously wrote an art review column for Able Newspaper as well as articles outside the column. At the close of the last century DISH!, an independent film she wrote, produced, and directed was given a...
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DAVID DI CERTO

    DAVID DI CERTO   Born and raised in New York City, David DiCerto has more than 20 years of experience working in the intersection of faith, media and the arts. After eight years, David recently departed the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Center for Thought &...
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Fr. Peter Martyr Yungwirth, O.P.

Fr. Peter Martyr Yungwirth, O.P. grew up in Maryland in a large family. He attended the University of Maryland and then the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. He was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 2014. He worked in the chaplain’s office at Providence...
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The Rev. Canon Victor Lee Austin, Ph.D.

    The Rev. Canon Victor Lee Austin, Ph.D., is theologian-in-residence for the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. Before moving to Dallas, he served at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, and before that he was a parish priest in New York’s Hudson Valley. He writes at...
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Pilgrimage of Hope

  Hope, together with faith and charity, makes up the triptych of the “theological virtues” that express the heart of the Christian life (cf. 1 Cor 13:13; 1 Thess 1:3). In their inseparable unity, hope is the virtue that, so to speak, gives inward direction and purpose to...
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