The Editor: Frank J. Coppa received his M.A. and his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and he is currently Professor of History and the Director of Doctoral Studies in Modern World History at St. John¿s University in New York. He has written and edited more than a dozen volumes on united Italy and the modern Papacy, including Dictionary of Modern Italian History (editor, 1985) and Encyclopedia of the Vatican and the Papacy (editor, 1999), among others.