John P. Hittinger is a full professor in the department of philosophy and he is a member of the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of ST Thomas in Houston. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (1974). He has held faculty positions at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas (where he was the first faculty moderator of the pro-life club), the College of St Francis in Joliet, Illinois; the United States Air Force Academy, St. Mary’s College of Ave Maria University in Orchard Lake, Michigan, and Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit Michigan. John has published four books; he edited the recently published The Vocation of the Catholic Philosopher: from Maritain to Wojtyla, Washington, Catholic University of America Press, 2010, and he authored a collection of essays entitled Liberty, Wisdom and Grace: Thomism and Modern Democratic Theory. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Press, 2002. Dr Hittinger is the founder and director of the Pope John Paul II Forum for the Church in the Modern World (www.JP2Forum.org)
