Fr. Stefanus Hendrianto, S.J. is a member of the Society of Jesus USA West Province (Jesuit West). In recent years, he served as a lecturer at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle, an LLM from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and an LLB degree from Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia. Additionally, he earned both an MDiv and a ThM from Boston College. Fr. Hendrianto was born and raised in Indonesia, where he was actively involved in the student movement against the military dictatorship during his college years. After the fall of the military regime in 1998, he began a period of soul-searching that led him to leave the country to pursue graduate studies. During his time at the University of Washington Catholic Newman Center, he experienced a profound conversion of faith and met Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J. This encounter prompted him to discern his calling to join the Society of Jesus. He entered the Jesuit Novitiate in 2009 and was ordained as a priest in 2019. As part of his regency assignment, he spent two years at Santa Clara University, where he taught at the law school and in the political science department. During his time there, he formed a friendship with Father James V. Schall, S.J., which became a significant part of the story in this book.