Father Thomas Acklin, O.S.B., Senior Fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, is a spiritual director and theologian who serves as Director of Counseling at St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.  

Father Acklin is the author of The Passion of the Lamb: God's Love Poured Out in Jesus (Servant, 2006), and The Unchanging Heart of the Priesthood (Emmaus Road, 2006).

Father Acklin earned his S.T.D. degree in Systematic Theology from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, writing his dissertation on Religious Symbolic Transformations of Desire: A Psychoanalytic and Theological Study of Desire in Religion. He earned his Ph.D. in the Psychology of Religion from the Catholic University of Louvain.

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