Leo D. Lefebure

Leo Dennis Lefebure (born November 20, 1952) is an American Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, university professor, and author.

[3] Lefebure was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, where he attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary South, a Catholic high school, where he was associate editor of the Profile, its newspaper.

[6] In 1987 he completed his Ph.D. in Christian Theology with Distinction at The University of Chicago, Toward a Contemporary Wisdom Christology: A Study of Karl Rahner and Norman Pittenger.

To explore this hypothesis in relation to Mahayana Buddhism, he published a book of meditations on the Christian scriptures in dialogue with Buddhist perspectives: Life Transformed.

He also traveled to Kyoto Japan, through a junior scholars grant funded by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.