Anne-Marie Kirmse, O.P., Ph.D., served as Avery Dulles's Research Associate and Executive Assistant for his twenty years at Fordham University. Since the Cardinal's death in 2008, she continues at Fordham as Research Associate for the McGinley Chair and as Associate Professor of Theology in the College of Liberal Studies.

Michael M. Canaris works as an administrator at Fairfield University's Center for Faith and Public Life and teaches on the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut.