Dr. Pat McCormick received his doctorate in Moral Theology from the Gregorian University in Rome in 1984 and did a post-doctoral fellowship in Bioethics at the Cleveland Clinic. Since 1994 he has been teaching Christian Ethics at Gonzaga University, and has written five texts, dozens of articles and hundreds of columns on ethics and social justice, and given talks and retreats for various groups in the US, Canada, England, Italy and Australia.

Since 2018 he has been a member of the board of 350 Spokane and worked with its Interfaith Committee addressing environmental issues from a religious perspective.