Fr. John Paul Kimes

Senior Advisor on Moral Compass

Fr. John Paul Kimes is an Associate Professor of the Practice at Notre Dame Law School and the Raymond of Peñafort Fellow in Canon Law at the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. As Senior Advisor on ASF's flagship Moral Compass initiative,  he offers guidance on Vatican and multifaith engagement on the human implications of AI. Prior to joining Notre Dame Law School's faculty, he served for 11 years as a canon lawyer at the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In 2000, he was ordained as a priest of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles after having completed his first course of studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University.