Philip E. Blosser is professor of philosophy at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit. Born in China and raised in Japan, he earned his BA from Sophia University in Tokyo, MA degrees from Westminster Theological Seminary and Villanova University, both in Philadelphia, and his PhD from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

He taught philosophy at Duquesne University, Lenoir-Rhyne University, and Harlaxton College (UK), and served a tutor in the Great Books program at the I. D. Blumenthal Foundation’s Wildacres Conference Center in Little Switzerland, NC, with George Anastaplo, John van Doren, and Eva Braun for many years.

He was a Fellow and Associate Director of the Center for Theology at Lenoir-Rhyne University and a founding member and Secretary of the Max Scheler Society of North America for many years.

He has published numerous articles and several books on philosophy and religion on subjects ranging from phenomenology, personalism, and ethics, to friendship, history, liturgy, and law.

His most recent publications include a translation of a German work by H. G. Stoker titled Conscience: Phenomena and Theories (Notre Dame, 2018), and a co-authored three-volume series titled Speaking in Tongues: A Critical Historical Examination, with a forthcoming third volume subtitled, “The Tongues of Corinth” (Pickwick, 2025). He is the paterfamilias of five children and sixteen grandchildren.

Andrew Likoudis is a Catholic scholar and entrepreneur with degrees in Communication from Towson University and Business Administration from the Community College of Baltimore County. He has served as a Fellow of Economic Development at Johns Hopkins University in collaboration with Bloomberg Philanthropy and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses, and afterwards as Fellow of Marketing Development at Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses, in collaboration with TargetGov.


His professional experience also includes a role as a business development administrative assistant at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. Additionally, he has nearly a decade of experience providing hospitality hosting with Airbnb. Currently, Andrew is serving as a full-time summer intern at EWTN, where he writes long-form commentary and analysis for the National Catholic Register, with a particular focus on the post-conclave Church and reform.


Andrew is the founder and president of the Likoudis Legacy Foundation, a research institute dedicated to ecumenism and interreligious dialogue, and serves as editor-in-chief of its journal, The Kydones Review. His writing has been featured in Catholic Review, Where Peter Is, Catholic World News, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Fellowship and Fairydust Magazine, and Philosophy Now. His academic interests focus on the sociological intersection of faith and culture, also hosting a column, Nature and Grace, at Patheos.com. He has edited six books on Catholic ecclesiology and the papacy, and has compiled and edited over ten volumes in total.


Andrew is a member of the International Marian Association, and an associate member of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, the Mariological Society of America, and the Society for Catholic Liturgy. He additionally serves young as a adult community representative on the Lay Pastoral Council of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and is a dedicated parishioner at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, America’s First Cathedral.


Outside of his professional endeavors, Andrew enjoys kayaking, cooking, basketball, dancing bachata, and playing chess.

“James Likoudis was a courageous defender of the faith and a gentle ‘man of the Church’. It is praiseworthy that this new Foundation has been established in his honor, and is working to preserve and build upon his remarkable legacy. I support its efforts in promoting his scholarly contributions…May this initiative enrich the Church’s pursuit of Christian unity.”

Joseph F. Naumann

Archbishop Emeritus of Kansas City

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