Anders Cardinal Arborelius, O.C.D., S.T.D.
Anders Cardinal Arborelius, O.C.D., S.T.D. was born in 1949, became Catholic in 1969, and entered Carmel in 1971. He was ordained a priest in 1979, consecrated bishop of Stockholm in 1998, and created cardinal in 2017.
For his licentiate at the Teresianum (1978-1980) he wrote on the church in John of the Cross and Elizabeth of the Trinity, and he continues to have a special interest in the ecclesial dimension of Carmelite spirituality. He has translated works of Teresa of Avila, Thérèse of Lisieux, and Lawrence of the Resurrection, published biographies of Edith Stein, John of the Cross, and Marie-Antoinette de Geuser, and written some 15 other books on spiritual matters, while preaching numerous retreats internationally. In Sweden he has been active in ecumenical dialogue and co-published with a Pentecostal preacher and a female Lutheran bishop very interested in Carmelite spirituality.
Fernando Millan Romeral, Ph.D.
Fernando Millan Romeral, Ph.D. is a Professor of Systematics and Historical Theology at the Pontifical Comillas University in Madrid. He was born in 1962 in Madrid, where he later studied at the Colegio Santa Maria del Carmen. Following his first profession in 1981, he studied philosophy at Comillas and theology at the C.E.T. in Seville, the Milltown Institute in Dublin, and Comillas, where he obtained a licentiate in theology in 1990. From February 1995 he served as as Ordinary Professor of Sacraments in the Comillas Theology Faculty. He also taught as a guest professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University and has given courses in a number of other universities as well. He recently completed two terms as Prior General of the Carmelites (2007-2019).
Dianne M. Traflet, J.D., S.T.D.
Dianne M. Traflet, J.D., S.T.D., Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology, earned a J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law, an M.A. in Catholic Theology and Pastoral Ministry from The Institute of Advanced Studies of Catholic Doctrine, St. John's University, and an S.T.L. and an S.T.D. from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (The Angelicum), Rome. She is the author of Edith Stein: A Spiritual Portrait (2008). Her recent courses include Franciscan Spirituality, Women Mystics, Theology and Practice of Prayer, Marian Spirituality, and History of Christian Spirituality.
Leopold Glueckert, O.Carm., Ph.D.
Leopold Glueckert, O.Carm., Ph.D. is a member of the Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary based in Darien, Illinois. A noted Carmelite historian, Fr. Glueckert received his Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago. He taught Ecclesiastical History and courses on Carmelite Spirituality at the Washington Theological Union from 2005 until the Union closed in 2012. He is the author of Desert Springs in the City: A Concise History of the Carmelites, published in 2012. He has also written on Titus Brandsma, Thérèse of Lisieux, and other topics of interest to the Carmelite community. He is a member of the American Historical Association and the American Catholic Historical Association.
Donna Orsuto, S.T.D.
Donna Orsuto, S.T.D. is a professor of spirituality at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the Director of the Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas (www.laycentre.org).
Originally from the United States, she also lectures and gives retreats worldwide. She has authored two books and numerous articles in the area of spirituality. Dr. Orsuto is active in ecumenical and interreligious dialogue. Pope Benedict XVI named her a Dame of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of Saint Gregory the Great in 2011. In December 2015, the then Prior General, Fr. Fernando Millán Romeral, O.Carm., conferred upon her a spiritual affiliation with the Ancient Order of Carmel. For more than forty years, she has been studying Carmelite spirituality and has shared the fruit of that study through articles, retreats, and lectures.
Craig E. Morrison, O.Carm., D.S.S.
Craig E. Morrison, O.Carm., D.S.S. is currently dean of the Faculty of Ancient Near Eastern Languages at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome where he is professor of Aramaic and Syriac Languages. He also enjoys teaching courses on the Books of Samuel and is the director of several dissertations. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Biblia Hebraica Quinta, a critical edition of the Hebrew Bible. His academic publications include articles on Syriac grammar and Syriac biblical interpretation in Parole de l'Orient, Orientalia, Aramaic Studies and the Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies. His biblical articles have appeared in the Catholic Biblical Quarterly and Bible Today. His pastoral articles appear in Give Us This Day and The Word Among Us. He resides at the Carmelite community of San Martino in Rome, a parish served by the Carmelites since 1299.
Simon Nolan, O.Carm. Ph.D.
Simon Nolan, O.Carm. Ph.D., has a doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. He is currently Prior of Whitefriar Street Church and Priory, Dublin, Ireland. He lectures in the Department of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and specializes in the philosophical thought of fourteenth-century Carmelite thinkers Gerard of Bologna, John Baconthorpe, and Guido Terreni as well as the leading Irish thinker of the same period, Richard FitzRalph, who was Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Archbishop of Armagh. Simon has a masters degree in spirituality and is a graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. In addition to his university work, he writes and talks generally on Carmelite history, musicology, and spirituality.
Areas of Expertise: Fourteenth-century Carmelite thought; Richard FitzRalph; Carmelite history; Carmelite spirituality; Carmelite musicology.
Paul Chandler, O.Carm. Ph.D.
Paul Chandler, O.Carm. Ph.D. is a member of the Australian Carmelite Province since 1970. He studied theology and Latin in Rome, and has a Ph.D. in medieval studies from the University of Toronto. He taught church history and the history of spirituality in Melbourne for 20 years at the Yarra Theological Union, and since 2010 has been Spiritual Director at Holy Spirit Seminary in Brisbane. He is well known for retreat work in Australia and overseas and he has lectured and taught internationally.
Areas of Expertise: His main research interests are in patristics and medieval mysticism and especially the history and spirituality of the Carmelites.
Constance FitzGerald, O.C.D.
Constance FitzGerald, O.C.D., a member of the Carmelite Community in Baltimore, Maryland, is a contemplative theologian. She has served her community as prioress, formation director, archivist, historian, and treasurer. She was one of the founders of the Association of Contemplative Sisters in the U.S. (1969), a founding member of the Carmelite Forum (1982-2013), and a key consultant to the early work of the Institute for Communal Contemplation and Dialogue. Constance has devoted her life to the explication and interpretation of the writings of the great Carmelite mystics, with special attention to the writings of Saint John of the Cross. In 2009, she became the first contemplative nun to address the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) and in 2017 the first contemplative nun to be honored by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) with their Outstanding Leadership Award in recognition of her spiritually creative and prophetic contributions to religious life. Theologians have reflected on her writings in Desire, Darkness and Hope, Theology in a Time of Impasse: Engaging the Thought of Constance FitzGerald (Liturgical Press, 2021).
Christof Betschart, O.C.D., Ph.D.
Christof Betschart, O.C.D., Ph.D. is a Swiss Carmelite who received his Ph.D. and Habilitation in Dogmatic Theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is now a professor of the Pontifical Theological Faculty Teresianum (Rome) where he serves as Faculty President (2020-2023). Betschart is known as an Edith Stein scholar with publications in several languages. He teaches and researches in Theological Anthropology as well as in Carmelite studies (e.g. directing a research group on the theology of love in the Carmelite tradition in dialogue with contemporary theology).
Expertise: Theological Anthropology, Edith Stein.
For further information: www.teresianum.net/persone/corpo-docente/christof-betschart
Mark O'Keefe, O.S.B. Ph.D.
Mark O'Keefe, O.S.B. Ph.D. is Professor of Moral Theology at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology and resident chaplain for the Carmel of St. Joseph in Terre Haute, IN. His books include: Love Awakened by Love: The Liberating Ascent of Saint John of the Cross (2014), The Way of Transformation: Saint Teresa of Avila on the Foundations and Fruit of Prayer (2016), In Context: Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, and Their World (2019), and Learned, Experienced, and Discerning: St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross on Spiritual Direction (2020).
Areas of Expertise: Moral Theology, Ethics and Spirituality, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross
John Sullivan, OCD, Ph.D.
John Sullivan, OCD, Ph.D., is priest of the Washington Province of Discalced Carmelites and has served as prior, provincial, and general definitor of the Order. He earned his licentiate in theology at the Teresianum in Rome and his doctorate at the Institut Catholique in Paris. Subsequently he taught liturgical courses for many years at Catholic University of America. He is currently the Chair of the Institute of Carmelite Studies and has previously worked as the publisher and editor-in-chief of ICS Publications. He has lectured and published widely on Carmelite topics, especially Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross). Volumes he has edited include Holiness Befits Your House: Documentation on the Canonization of Edith Stein (1999) and Edith Stein: Essential Writings (2002).
Areas of Expertise: St. Teresa Benedicta/Edith Stein, O.C.D., Wadi-ain-es-Siah (Mount Carmel), Carmelite Martyrs, Père Jacques de Jésus, O.C.D., Carmelite Doctors and liturgical questions.
Mary Frohlich, RSCJ, Ph.D.
Mary Frohlich, RSCJ, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of Spirituality at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, where she taught from 1993 to 2020. She recently moved to the East Coast and is now a Visiting Scholar at Boston College. She is a noted scholar of Carmelite spirituality, with numerous essays on Teresa of Avila, Thérèse of Lisieux, and John of the Cross as well as on broader issues in the tradition. Books include The Intersubjectivity of the Mystic: A Study of Teresa’s Interior Castle (Oxford 1994); Saint Thérèse of Lisieux: Essential Writings (Orbis 2003); Carmelite Wisdom and Prophetic Hope (ICS 2019); and Breathed into Wholeness: Catholicity and Life in the Spirit (Orbis 2019). She is currently researching the history of French spirituality and working on a book integrating Sacred Heart spirituality with ecospirituality.
Areas of expertise: Carmelite Spirituality, French Spirituality, Thérèse of Lisieux, Methodology for the Study of Spirituality, Ecospirituality.
André Brouillette, S.J., Ph.D./S.T.D.
André Brouillette, S.J., Ph.D./S.T.D. is a Jesuit priest from Québec, Canada, and Associate Professor of Systematic and Spiritual Theology at Boston College. He previously taught philosophy and church history in Haiti. An expert on St. Teresa of Avila, he specializes in 16th and 17th century spirituality and history, as well as the systematic theological issues of pneumatology and soteriology. He is the author of Teresa of Avila, the Holy Spirit, and the Place of Salvation (Paulist Press, 2021), and The Pilgrim Paradigm: Faith in Motion (Paulist Press, 2021), as well as the co-editor of Pilgrimage as Spiritual Practice (Fortress Press, upcoming 2022). Fr. Brouillette holds graduate degrees in philosophy (U. Montréal), history (U. of Toronto), theology (Weston Jesuit School of Theology and Boston College), a Ph.D. in theology from Université Laval (Quebec City, Canada) and an ecclesiastical doctorate, summa cum laude, from the Catholic University of Paris. He has been a visiting scholar at the Pontifical University Comillas in Madrid, Spain. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the journal Teresianum (Rome), and of the Centre d’Études Marie-de-l’Incarnation (U. Laval, Canada), a member of the International Relations Committee of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, and of the Steering Committee of the Christian Spirituality Unit of the American Academy of Religion. Since 2021, he is the general editor of the Classics of Western Spirituality (Paulist Press).