Stephen P. White

Stephen P. White is a fellow in the Catholic Studies Program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Mr. White currently serves as executive director of the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, DC.  

For more than two decades, Mr. White has been part of the faculty of the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society, a three-week seminar on Catholic social teaching with an emphasis on the thought of Pope John Paul II, which takes place every summer in Krakow, Poland. 

He previously served as the director of The Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America, where he led the groundbreaking “National Study of Catholic Priests” (2022 and 2025) and produced the award-winning podcast, “Crisis: Clergy Abuse in the Catholic Church,” among other accomplishments. 

Mr. White’s writing and speaking primarily deals with the intersection of Catholic social teaching and contemporary political, social, and cultural issues. In addition to a bi-weekly column for The Catholic Thing, his writing has been published in a wide variety of outlets and websites, including National Review, First Things, America Magazine, National Catholic Register, Our Sunday Visitor, and Human Life Review. 

He is sought out for interviews and commentary on Catholic issues by print and television media outlets, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, NBC News, Fox News, CNN, BBC, EWTN, and many others. 

He is the author of Red, White, Blue, and Catholic (Liguori Publications, 2016) and co-editor of Rebuilding Trust: Clergy Morale in the Wake of the Abuse Crisis (CUA Press, 2025). 

Mr. White holds a BA in politics from the University of Dallas and MA in philosophy from the Catholic University of America. He is a graduate of St. Patrick’s Evangelisation School in London, England. A native of the upper Midwest, he lives in northern Virginia with his wife and four children. 

https://www.jp2shrine.org/ 

X: @stephen_p_white 

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