is an author, journalist, and Catholic priest of the Passionist congregation.
He is an on-air contributor for CNN on issues of faith, religion and ethics, and has written three books.
He co-hosted Focus on Faith with Chris Cuomo for ABC News from 2009 to 2014.
[3] Beck also wrote a play, Sweetened Water, which had a staged reading starring Vanessa Williams and Amy Brenneman at Playwrights Horizons theater in New York City in January 2015 and an Equity production in the summer of 2015 at Martha's Vineyard Playhouse in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.
Subsequent readings featured Laila Robins, Josh Lucas, Sean Cullen, Nathan Darrow, Tricia Paoluccio and Meghann Fahy.