Baltimore-based Matt Palmer has written about the Catholic Church since 2008 and led the U.S. Bishops social media efforts surrounding Pope Francis' 2015 visit to the U.S.
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Virginia Raguin is a distinguished professor of humanities emerita at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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David Ozar is emeritus professor in the Department of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, a member and consulting ethicist of the Institutional Ethics Committee at NorthShore University HealthSystem, and on the steering committee of the Unrepresented Patients Project for Illinois.