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Professor Gregory Baum is a theologian and expert in ecumenical and interreligious dialogue. He has taught theology and religious studies, as well as sociology, at St. Michael's College (University of Toronto) until 1995, subsequently becoming a professor at McGill University's Faculty of Religious Studies. Baum served as an expert to the Secretariat for the Promotion of Christian Unity through the Second Vatican Council; in 1962, he established The Ecumenist, an ecumenical review of theology, culture, and society. His most recent books include Frieden für Israel (Israeli Peace-and-Human Rights Groups in Israel) (2002), Amazing Church (2005), and The Theology of Tariq Ramadan: A Catholic Perspective (2009). Baum is a controversial figure in the Canadian Church as he supports same sex marriage and the use of contraception. He received his doctorate in theology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, later publishing his thesis as That They All May Be One: A Study of Papal Doctrine (Leo XIII – Pius XII) (1958).