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Rocco Buttiglione

A trusted collaborator of Pope St. John Paul II, and is an authority on his philosophical anthropology. His book Karol Wojtyla: The Thought of the Man who became Pope John Paul II is a fundamental work on the pope’s early philosophy. A member of the Italian Parliament for over two decades, he serves on the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and holds the John Paul II Chair for Philosophy and History of European Institutions at the Lateran University in Rome. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Hildebrand Project.

Martin Cajthaml

Martin Cajthaml is a full professor and the Head of the Department of Philosophy and Patrology at the Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology of Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic, and an Associated Scholar of the Hildebrand Project.

He is the author of The Moral Philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand (CUA Press, 2019) and editor of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s The Roots of Moral Evil (Hildebrand Press, 2023), the first posthumous publication of Hildebrand’s Nachlass.

Research Areas:

Philosophical Ethics; Intellectual and Spiritual Roots of European Culture; Value Theory

John Henry Crosby

John Henry Crosby is a translator, writer, critic, and cultural entrepreneur. 

Late in 2003, searching for a life’s work that could integrate the quest for truth, the existential need for beauty, and the service of a great good, and beginning to despair of ever finding such a mission, he called Alice von Hildebrand to propose that he spend one year translating her late husband’s Aesthetics. Would she help, he asked.

She did, and her blessing transformed his one-year plan into lifelong mission that soon attracted the collaboration of others. Thus, the life’s work he had sought found him. Established in February 2004, the Hildebrand Project’s mission to renew culture has grown to encompass publications, events, fellowships, and online resources that draw on the continuing vitality of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s thought and witness.

Under his leadership, the Hildebrand Project has become the world’s leading organization dedicated to Dietrich von Hildebrand’s legacy. The Project has been supported by many leading foundations and donors, including the Bradley Foundation, Chiaroscuro Foundation, Earhart Foundation, Fieldstead & Company, Henry Luce Foundation, Luddy Charitable Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Our Sunday Visitor Institute, Papal Foundation, and the Raskob Foundation. 

He was the editor of a new edition of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s The Heart (St. Augustine’s Press, 2007). He joined John F. Crosby as co-translator of Hildebrand’s major philosophical work, The Nature of Love (St. Augustine’s Press, 2009). He edited Selected Papers in the Philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand (2012), the first major volume of essays on von Hildebrand in two decades. Most recently he is the primary compiler, editor, and translator of Hildebrand’s anti-Nazi papers, My Battle Against Hitler (Random House, 2014). 

His work has been featured in both popular (e.g., The Daily Beast) and scholarly publications (Logos Journal). His numerous radio appearances have taken him from PRI’s The Takeaway to the Hugh Hewitt Show. He was host of He Dared Speak the Truth, a 14-part television series on the life of Dietrich von Hildebrand, which aired on EWTN (2014).

Son of an Austrian mother and an American father, his mother tongue was German. Both his undergraduate studies in philosophy, history, and literature (2000) as well as his graduate studies in philosophy (2001) were pursued at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. 

He was for many years a violinist. As a student of Daniel Heifetz, he was formed in the great violinistic traditions of Henryk Szeryng, David Oistrakh, and Ivan Galamian. 

He serves as a trustee of The Personalist Project. 

In 2010 he married Robin-Marie Bobak. Through their marriage—and all the more with the birth of their children Magdalene (2011), Robin (2013), John Henry, Jr. (2015), and Peter—he has found (or, again, been found by) an integration of the good, true, and beautiful far greater than any he has ever known.

Elisa Grimi

Elisa Grimi is the Director of the Hildebrand Chair for Christian Personalaism at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum University, the Executive Director of the European Society for Moral Philosophy, and the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Philosophical News.

On May 30, 2014, she received the Paolo Michele Erede Foundation First Prize with a work on “Politics and Network”. She has studied and worked at various universities throughout the world, in countries including Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, England, France, and the United States. She is the author of numerous publications.

Research Areas:

Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Analytic Philosophy

Christopher T. Haley

Christopher Haley is Vice President of the Hildebrand Project and Director of the Hildebrand Press. Over the past decade he has helped guide the organization’s growth from a specialist academic initiative into a vibrant cultural institution dedicated to the personalist philosophical tradition. Through publishing, communications, and program development, his work brings the thought of Dietrich von Hildebrand and kindred figures such as Karol Wojtyła, Edith Stein, and Max Scheler to new popular and scholarly audiences.

Originally drawn to philosophy by a love of beauty, Christopher studied philosophy and ancient languages at the University of Texas and later pursued graduate work at the University of Dallas, where a course on Edith Stein with philosopher Robert E. Wood introduced him to Christian personalism and helped shape the direction of his work. To this vocation he has brought both a deep grounding in the philosophical tradition and a range of professional experience—in teaching, writing, publishing, and communications—and in the Hildebrand Project these different strands of his intellectual and professional life have come together in service of a common mission.

His essays have appeared in First Things, America, and other publications. He lives in Texas with his wife and young children, and enjoys classical music, poetry, cycling, and woodworking.

Fr. Eamonn O’Higgins, LC

Philosophy Professor, Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Rome (Italy)

Fr. Eamonn is a full-time professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina
Apostolorum in Rome, where he currently teaches moral and political
philosophy as well as courses on contemporary political philosophers and the
political thought of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI.

He studied an Honours degree in Law at Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland) and philosophy and theology at the Gregorian University and at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina
Apostolorum in Rome.

He was ordained priest in 1994 and is also a spiritual Father at Mater Ecclesiae College and manager of the Vatican (St. Peter’s) Cricket Team. He has also lectured in India and the United States and was a contributor in the field of political philosophy at the World Congress of Philosophy (Rome, 2024). He has also participated in the World Congress of
Metaphysics (Rome, 2025). He is a member of the academic network of the International Ratzinger Foundation.

His most recent publication is Person-centered Politics: A Personalist Approach to Politics, Hamilton Books (Rowman & Littlefield), MD 2024. The book was presented at the American Political Science Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, in September 2025. A forthcoming publication is Living in Hope of Fulfilment: Rediscovering the Attraction of Goodness (2026).