Dr. John P. Joy

Dr. Joy serves as Senior Theologian to the Bishop and Coordinator of Marriage and Family Ministries for the Diocese of Madison. Before coming to Madison, he taught ethics at La Lumiere School in La Porte, Indiana, where he was appointed chair of theology and philosophy in 2016. He holds degrees in theology from Ave Maria College in Michigan (B.Phil.), the International Theological Institute in Austria (M.Theol, S.T.L.), and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland (S.T.D.). He is the co-founder and president of the Albertus Magnus Center for Scholastic Studies, the managing editor for The Aquinas Institute for the Study of Sacred Doctrine, and a fellow of the Dialogos Institute. His publications have appeared in Nova et Vetera,  Antiphon, New Blackfriars, and Seminary Journal; and he is the author of On the Ordinary and Extraordinary Magisterium from Joseph Kleutgen to the Second Vatican Council, Studia Oecumenica Friburgensia, 54 (Münster: Aschendorff, 2017).