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A new virtual table, Engaging Synodality: A Call to Higher Education and Theological Ethicists, will begin in May 2022. This table will determine interest and generate further involvement/strategic ways to contribute as theological ethicists to Pope Francis’ global consultation toward a synod on synodality and becoming a synodal church (see Synod on Synodality.) We begin as a listening-learning group. Participants will share current involvement with/interest in the synodal process. Attention will also be paid to how theological ethicists can contribute to the synodal process and how we might listen to the voices of others, particularly those outside of the academy. Discussion will move to how theological ethicists’ might further respond to the call to synodality in our locations, through our writing, presentations and through our institutions. This table will be co-chaired by Maria Cimperman, RSCJ (USA), Kevin Ahern (USA), Stephanie Ann Puen (Philippines) and Victor Carmona (USA).

Interested members should contact Maria Cimperman (mcimperman@ctu.edu) or Kevin Ahern (kevin.ahern@manhattan.edu) with your interest or question by April 28, 2022. If possible, please also fill out this informational Google form.

Sr. Anne Celestine Ondigo, FSJ preached for the Fourth Sunday of Lent for Catholic Women Preach on reconciliation and re-entry. Text and video of her reflection are available here.

Shinto Puthumattathil & Paulachan Kochappilly, Eds., Justice Incarnated: Theological and Pastoral Perspectives on St. Joseph (Bengaluru: Dharmaram Publications, 2022).

With the Apostolic Letter “Patriscorde,” Pope Francis recalled the 150^thanniversary of the declaration of Saint Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church and proclaimed a “Year of Saint Joseph” from 8 December 2020 to 8 December 2021. While scripture does not offer a detailed account of St. Joseph, the magisterial documents also to a greater extent continued the same patrimony. In contrast to various devotional forms evolved in history, amidst the pandemic crisis, as also Pope Francis accentuated in his Apostolic Letter, this book unravels the life, personality and the redemptive role of St. Joseph and thus investigates the theological, philosophical, spiritual and psychological dimensions thereof.

Asian Horizons, Dharmaram Journal of Theology calls for papers for its June 2022 on the theme Christian Witness in the 21st Century. Papers will offer explorations against the background of growing globalization and its underlying upsurgences, namely, modernism, atheism, materialism, secularization, relativism and pluralism, the ways in which Christian witness has been questioned in diverse ways.

Mary Yuen shares a comprehensive report on the proceedings of the February 2022 meeting of the Ecclesia of Women in Asia conference, entitled “Towards Life-Giving Communities in a Time of Pandemic: Asian Feminist Theological Perspectives.” Celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, the Ecclesia of Women in Asia brings together feminist Catholic women doing theology across the continent and around the world.

"The Bold Arcs of Salvation History": Faith and Reason in Jürgen Habermas’s Reconstruction of the Roots of European Thinking, Maureen Junker-Kenny (De Gruyter, 2022).

This book offers the first in-depth treatment in English language of Habermas’s long-awaited work on religion, Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie, published in 2019. Maureen Junker-Kenny complements Habermas' trajectory based on Paul and Augustine with different lines of continuity: the Gospels, other patristic sources, Duns Scotus and Schleiermacher, arguing for an internal connection of faith to autonomous freedom. 

Christliche Sozialethik. Grundlagen - Kontexte - Themen. Ein Lehr- und Studienbuch, von Heimbach-Steins, Marianne / Becka, Michelle / Frühbauer, Johannes J. / Kruip, Gerhard (Hg.), Regensburg 2022.

Conference on Amoris laetitia

From May 11-14, 2022, the international conference on Amoris laetitia organized by the Gregoriana University and the Pontifical John Paul Theological Institute Marriage and Family will take place in Rome. The program is now available and registration is open through April.

On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, the members of the Netzwerk Moraltheologie have dealt with the question of the “future of (theological) ethics”. From 4th to 6th of March, about 30 emerging scholars attended (physically or virtually), the annual meeting at Domschule Würzburg, Germany, and discussed their vision of the future of this discipline. During the first half of the meeting, the discussion was enriched by members of the network itself; namely, Dr. Johannes Ludwig (Fribourg), Dorian Winter (Fribourg), Anna Puzio (Münster), Nicolai Kleineidam (Münster) and Julia van der Linde (Bochum). In the second half of the meeting, two members of the national German Ethics Council, Prof. em. Julian Nida-Rümelin (München) and Prof. Kerstin Schlögl-Flierl (Augsburg) delivered their lectures and engaged with members of the network in further discussion on upcoming challenges and opportunities for (theological) ethics. The network meeting ended with a plenary discussion, to which all former members of the network who currently hold a professorship were invited. The next meeting of the network in March, 2023 will deal with the topic of experience, corporeality, and narrativity. Further information about the network can be found here.

Are you now or have you ever self-identified as a Catholic woman? In collaboration with the University of Newcastle in Australia and the Catholic Women’s Council, Catholic Women Speak is conducting an online survey—available in six languages—to gather feedback from women around the world for the upcoming Synod.

La Universidad Alberto Hurtado de Chile ha lanzado el Diplomado en Teología Contemporánea como una invitación a profundizar en la teología de nuestro tiempo: un pensamiento situado histórica y culturalmente que busca comprender la acción salvífica de Dios en la historia. Es una invitación a dialogar con libertad y recorrer un camino tanto intelectual como personal en torno a las preguntas actuales de la teología. IMPORTANTE: Se reciben postulaciones entre marzo y abril de 2022 y la duración del programa es de 9 meses, desde abril a diciembre de 2022. Para más información en este enlace.

El Instituto Mexicano de Doctrina Social Cristiana (IMDOSOC) invita a sus próximos cursos: 1)"La Construcción de la paz en perspectiva Latinoamericana" del 30 de abril al 28 de mayo. Más información.

2) “Economías incluyentes y construcción de la paz” del 27 de abril al 15 de junio. Más información .

3) “Qué es la justicia social” del 27 de abril al 1 de junio. Más información.

David DeCosse and Kevin Baxter, eds. Conscience and Catholic Education: Theology, Administration, & Teaching (Orbis, 2022).