Father Basil Cole, OP, earned his lectorate and licentiate degrees from Le Saulchoir (France). Later, he received his doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, where he taught from 1985 to 1997. Since 1998, he has taught moral, spiritual, and dogmatic theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, and has authored several books, including The Hidden Enemies of the Priesthood.