Thomas J. Reese, S.J., entered the Jesuits in 1962 and was ordained in 1974. He was educated at St. Louis University, the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, and at the University of California Berkeley, where he received a Ph.D. in political science. He worked in Washington as a lobbyist for tax reform from 1975-1978. He was an associate editor of America magazine from 1978-1985 and editor in chief from 1998-2005, where he wrote on politics, economics and the Catholic church. He was a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center from 1985-1998 & 2006-2013. While at Woodstock, he wrote the trilogy on the organization and politics of the church: Archbishop: Inside the Power Structure of the American Catholic Church (1989), A Flock of Shepherds: The National Conference of Catholic Bishops (1992), and Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church (1996). He also edited The Universal Catechism Reader (1990), an analysis of the first draft of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and Episcopal Conferences: Historical, Canonical and Theological Studies (1989). You can follow him @ThomasReeseSJ