is professor of theology and theologian in residence at Ave Maria University. He is founder and editor of Ignatius Press. He also founded both the St. Ignatius Institute of the University of San Francisco and Campion College before coming to Ave Maria University. He has taught philosophy and theology courses at several schools. Fr. Fessio wrote his dissertation on the ecclesiology of Hans Urs von Balthasar under the direction of Pope Benedict XVI (then Professor Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger). He holds the degrees of B.A. and M.A. from Gonzaga University; M.A. from the Fourvière Jesuit Faculty of Theology in Lyons, France; and Th.D. from the University of Regensburg in Germany.