Scott D. Moringiello is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University. At DePaul he teaches classes in Catholic theology and history as well as religion and literature. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Faith: Irenaeus and the Structure of the Adversus Haereses. He is also a scholar-in-residence at St Gregory Hall, a parish-based Catholic Cultural Center serving Mary, Mother of God Parish.