Dennis J. Billy, C.Ss.R. is a teacher, writer, and poet. Ordained a
Redemptorist priest in 1980, he is currently ordinary professor of the
history of moral theology and Christian spirituality at the Alphonsian
Academy of Rome's Pontifical Lateran University and the Karl Rahner
Professor of Catholic Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation in
South Bend, Indiana.  He is the author of numerous books and articles,
both popular and scholarly. Raised in Staten Island, New York and
educated there through high school in local Catholic schools, he graduated
from Dartmouth College and went on to receive four master degrees, as well
as doctorates from Harvard University, The Pontifical University of St.
Thomas, and The Graduate Theological Foundation.