Simone Caleffi was born in Parma on 30 September 1979 and has been a priest in the diocese of Rome since 2006. After graduating from the ‘Macedonio Melloni’ State Technical and Commercial Institute in Parma on 13 July 1998, with a score of 60/60, he attended the first year of the degree course in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Parma. He mainly studied English and French; to a lesser extent Portuguese and Turkish. During his preparation for the ministry, he attended the Pontifical Lateran University, obtaining a Baccalaureate in Philosophy in 2002, a Baccalaureate in Theology in 2005, and a Licentiate in Ecclesiology, History section, in 2007 with a magna cum laude grade, discussing a thesis entitled ‘Relations between the Pope and the Patriarch of Constantinople (1964-1995) as seen by Civiltà Cattolica’, with Professor Philippe Chenaux as moderator. In 2009 he obtained a Licentiate in Moral Theology, fundamental moral address, at the Alphonsian Academy with a summa cum laude grade, writing his thesis entitled ‘Hope in the recent Magisterium of the Church’, under the guidance of Professor Mauro Cozzoli. In 2016, he obtained a Doctorate in Moral Theology at the above-mentioned Academy, with a summa cum laude grade, with a thesis entitled ‘Hope and the Moral Life in the Recent Magisterium of the Church’, under the guidance of the aforementioned Mons. Cozzoli, with Prof. Jacques Mimeault as second moderator. For the academic years 2006-07, 2007-08 he was entrusted with the teaching of ‘Ethics and Charity’ in the Pathway for Charity Workers at the Ecclesia Mater Institute in collaboration with Professor Mauro Cozzoli, and for the academic year 2009-10 he taught it on his own. In the academic years 2008-22 he was entrusted with the teaching of ‘Moral Theology 1’, ‘Moral Theology 2’, ‘Moral Theology 3’ and ‘Church History 2’ in the North, West, Centre and East sectors by the Department of Basic Theological Formation (Centre of Theology for the Laity) of the Ecclesia Mater Higher Institute of Religious Sciences. His research activity focuses on the virtues, particularly the theological virtues, starting with hope. Since 2008 he has been the Diocesan Assistant of the Marian Ardent Youth and since 2018 spiritual assistant of a Team Notre-Dame. From 2006 to 2014 he was parochial vicar of Sant'Enrico in Casal Monastero; from 2014 to 2015 of San Crispino in Labaro; from 2015 to 2018 of San Gregorio Magno in Magliana Nuova; from 2018 to 2021 parish priest and then parochial administrator of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Acilia Nord; from 2021 to the present, vicar cooperator of Sant'Emerenziana. After teaching Catholic religion in secondary schools in the districts where he exercised the ministry of parish vicar, in the 2018-2019 academic year he was lecturer in dogmatic theology and specific topics in the GEPLI department of LUMSA; from the 2019-2020 to 2021-2022 academic year in specific topics in the aforementioned department; in the 2022-2023 academic year of dogmatic theology and specific topics theology in the GEPLI department and of moral theology in the Human Sciences department; in the 2023-2024 academic year of dogmatic theology, moral theology and specific topics theology in the GEPLI department. Since 8 August 2022 he has been employed at the Dicastery for Communication where he is editor of the Religion editorial staff of L'Osservatore Romano and since 24 May 2023 he has been a member of the Observatory of Mariology Person, Art, Culture, City, Health of the Pontifical Marian Academy International for a three-year term. He also coordinates the ‘sapiential face’ of the Pontifical Academy of Theology.