Joshua Villanueva is a Master of Laws candidate in national security and U.S. foreign relations law at George Washington University Law School and serves as JURIST's Washington, D.C., correspondent, covering national security, foreign affairs and civil liberties issues. He earned his law degree from UC Law San Francisco, a master's in international studies from the University of Denver and a bachelor's from McGill University.
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Karen E. Park is a writer, professor, and historian of American Catholicism whose work explores religion and public life. She is co-editor of American Patroness: Marian Shrines and the Making of U.S. Catholicism (Fordham University Press, 2024). Her essays and reporting have appeared in National Catholic Reporter, Religion News Service, Religion Dispatches, America, Sojourners and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Elyse Maldonado writes for Today's Catholic, the news outlet of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana.
Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski leads the Archdiocese of St. Louis, Missouri.
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