Fox was named publisher of The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company by the NCR Board of Directors in January 1997 after 17 years as editor of the National Catholic Reporter, an independent, progressive, lay-edited newsweekly.

He is a graduate of Stanford University and holds a master's degree in Asian Studies from Yale University. He was a volunteer in the International Voluntary Services in South Vietnam from 1966-1968, and wrote for The New York Times, Time magazine, and the National Catholic Reporter during the Vietnam War. After leaving Vietnam, he settled in Detroit with his wife, Kim Hoa, a Vietnamese social worker. He worked at the Detroit Free Press as a staff writer from 1973-1978. He was an editor at the Washington Star before his appointment as editor of NCR.

Fox has written a number of books. He is co-author of Children of Vietnam (Athaneum). He is also the author of Iraq: Military Victory, Moral Defeat (Sheed & Ward), Sexuality and Catholicism (George Braziller), Catholicism on the Web (MIS:Press), and, most recently, Pentecost in Asia: A New Way of Being Church (Orbis).

This event is cosponsored by the Catholic Studies Lecture Series, IHC Catholic Studies Research Focus Group Lecture, IHC Chicano/Latino/Mexicano Studies Research Focus Group, Department of Religious Studies, Department of Chicano Studies, Office of the Chancellor.

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