Paul Catalanotto is a former school teacher who, after 14 years of teaching, moved to Australia in March of 2020, got married during a pandemic and returned to university to research the relationship between eros and agape in Dietrich von Hildebrand and Pope John Paul II. He has walked the Camino de Santiago twice, climbed the Breithorn in the Alps, and slept under the stars in many locations in the southern United States. He writes a reoccurring column, The Goods, in Sydney's The Catholic Weekly. He has one son.