Dennis J. Billy, C.Ss.R.

Dennis J. Billy, C.Ss.R. is an American Redemptorist of the Baltimore Province. He holds an A.B. in English Literature from Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.), and M.R.E. and M. Div. degrees from Mt. St. Alphonsus Seminary (Esopus, N.Y.).   After his seminary training, he went on to earn a Th.D. in Church History from Harvard Divinity School (Cambridge, Mass.), an M.A. in Medieval Studies from at the University of Toronto in Canada, an M.M.R.Sc. in Moral Theology from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, an S.T.D. in Spirituality from The Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum, Rome), and a D. Min. in Spiritual Direction from the Graduate Theological Foundation (Mishawaka, Ind.).  From 1988-2008 he was Professor of the History of Moral Theology and Christian Spirituality at The Alphonsian Academy of The Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.  He is presently professor, scholar-in-residence, and holder of The John Cardinal Krol Chair of Moral Theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook in Wynnewood, PA.  He has authored or edited over 30 books , published over 300 articles in a variety of scholarly and popular journals, and is very active in retreat work and the ministry of spiritual direction.