Robert RoyalRobert Royal is the founder and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C., and editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing (www.thecatholicthing.org), an online publication that appears daily and is translated into five foreign language. His most recent book is A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the 20th Century. Other books include Dante Alighieri, The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Comprehensive Global History, The Pope's Army, and The God That Did Not Fail. Royal holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the Catholic University of America and has received fellowships to study in Italy from the Renaissance Society of America and as a Fulbright scholar. Read More Read Less