Joseph Carola Author

Father Joseph Carola, S.J., entered the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus in 1980. He was ordained a priest on July 24, 1993. He took his final vows in the Jesuit Order on May 24, 2007 at the Church of the Gesù in Rome. He completed a doctorate in theology and patristic sciences in 2001 at the Patristic Institute Augustinianum. In 1997, he began directing various seminars in the theology faculty at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. In February 2002, he began his full-time teaching at the same university where he is a professor of theology. Beginning in 2010, he served one five-year term as a consultor of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Sacraments. From 2011 until 2018, he moderated the first cycle of theology (S.T.B.) at the Gregorian University. His publications include the monograph Augustine of Hippo: The Role of the Laity in Ecclesial (2005), a study of non-Christians in patristic theology in Catholic Engagement with World Religions (2010), three volumes of meditations on the priesthood entitled Conformed to Christ Crucified (2010, 2015, and 2018), and various contributions to the Augustinus-Lexikon (2011) among other studies, articles, and reviews.