Staff & Personnel:
Kenneth J. Howell
Academic Director, President, and Translator
Kenneth J Howell is a retired professor who taught in American universities and seminaries for thirty years. His work covered a wide range of subjects including linguistics, history of science, philosophy, and classical languages. He has written over eight books, the latest being John Chrysostom, Theologian of the Eucharist. He is co-author with Thomas Kronholz (aka Joseph Crownwood) of The Mystery of the Altar – Daily Meditations on the Eucharist. He is married with three children and twelve grandchildren. He reads Greek, Latin, Hebrew, German, French, and Italian.
Thomas J. Kronholz
Associate Director and Translator
Thomas Kronholz is a systematic theologian, author, and classical pianist. He holds advanced degrees in theology from Notre Dame Graduate School at Christendom College and in music from Johns Hopkins University. He is co-author of The Mystery of the Altar: Daily Meditations on the Eucharist and writes on Catholic spirituality. He has translated Latin, French, Spanish, and Italian eucharistic texts for the Eucharist Project.
Anthony Coleman, Translator
Anthony P. Coleman is Professor of Theology and Director of the M.A.M. & M.T.S. degree programs Saint John’s Seminary in Boston, MA. He holds a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology (with a minor in Historical Theology) from Boston College, and has served as professor and administrator at several Catholic institutions of higher learning before coming to St. John’s
Seminary. While he is interested in the scope and depth of Catholic intellectual tradition as a whole, his scholarly area is Latin Patristics. He is the author of Lactantius the Theologian (2017) and editor of Leisure and Labor: The Liberal Arts in Catholic Higher Education (2020). He reads Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, and German.
Matthew J. Ramage, Translator
Matthew Ramage is Professor of Theology at Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas. He holds a Ph.D. from Ave Maria University and has authored four scholarly tomes as well numerous chapters and articles. His research and writing concentrates on the theology of Joseph Ratzinger, the wedding of ancient and modern methods of biblical exegesis, and the dialogue between faith and science. He reads Greek, Hebrew, Latin, German, French, Spanish, and Italian and has translated both Greek and Latin texts for this website.
Sergio Yona, Translator
Sergio Yona is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He holds a Ph.D. in classics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His work encompasses a wide range of ancient authors and he is author of Epicurean Ethics in Horace: The Psychology of Satire (2018) as well as Noctes Cenaeque Deum: Religion and Superstition in Early Vergil and Horace, both published by Oxford University Press. He has also done considerable work in the Christian poet Prudentius, whose writings he translated for this website. He reads Greek, Latin and ???
Benjamin Zakhary, Translator
Ben Zakhary holds a Master’s degree in Theological Studies and is currently finishing a second Master’s in theology with a focus on Liturgical Studies and History of Christianity at the University of Notre Dame. He conducts research in early patristic theology, eastern liturgies, and medieval Coptic-Arabic thought. He is well acquainted with Arabic, Coptic, Greek, and Hebrew. Recently he began studying Syriac and Latin. So far, he has translated Greek texts for the Eucharist Project.
Advisory Board:
David Morris is Director of the Souvay Memorial Library at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, the major seminary of the Archdiocese of St. Louis. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in medieval church history and a master’s degree in library science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A fellow of the American Academy in Rome and an elected member of the MOBIUS Board of Directors, which governs a consortium of 80 libraries across the central United States, he offers technical advice to the Eucharist Project.
Monsignor Stuart W. Swetland is President of Donnelly College in Kansas City, Kansas and has been a Catholic priest for thirty years. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University after graduating from the United State Naval Academy. He a served as a naval officer for six years. He holds a Doctor of Sacred Theology from the John Paul II Institute. An excellent teacher and an extraordinary administrator, he has authored many articles and given numerous spiritual conferences across the nation. With his finger on the pulse of the Church, he advises the Project especially in how to make its work more widely known.