Father C. John McCloskey, a priest of the prelature of Opus Dei and member of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, is a writer and spiritual director based in Menlo Park, Calif. A former Wall Street broker, he holds a B.A. in economics from Columbia University and an S.T.D. in theology from the University of Navarra in Spain. He is also a research fellow at the Faith and Reason Institute in Washington, D.C.
As head of the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C., from 1998 to 2004, Father McCloskey became known as the “convert maker” among Beltway political figures. Catholic converts instructed by him at that time included Republican Senator Sam Brownback, publisher Alfred Regnery, former abortion specialist Dr. Bernard Nathanson and the late journalist Robert Novak. He is also a writer specializing in the work of Hilaire Belloc, the 20th-century English Catholic writer. He is co-editor of The Essential Belloc –A Prophet for Our Times.
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