The current editor-in-chief is the Reverend John Cush, professor of theology at Saint Joseph's Seminary (Dunwoodie) in Yonkers, New York.

[2] It has featured noted contributors such as James V. Schall, S.J., Alice von Hildebrand, Paul Vitz, Kenneth Whitehead, Donald DeMarco, Regis Scanlon, and John F. Harvey.

The format was always simple: each issue included a sample sermon for each Sunday and Feast Day along with some aids for teaching catechism to children.

They changed the name of the periodical to The Homiletic and Pastoral Review (HPR) because they wanted to offer more than sermons.

They expanded the scope of HPR, adding articles, official church documents, a "Questions Answered" section and book reviews.

Carr wrote editorials that appear on the last page of every issues; this tradition has remained in place until today.

In addition to their editorial work, Callan and McHugh founded a parish in Hawthorne, N.Y. and taught at the Maryknoll Seminary in Ossining, N.Y.

David Vincent Meconi, S.J., became editor of HPR and served as such for a dozen years until leaving the priesthood after credible allegations of sexual abuse of a minor.

Meconi announced in October 2011 that the print version of the Homiletic and Pastoral Review would be discontinued at the end of the year.