Massimo Faggioli is an Italian academic, Church historian, professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University, columnist for La Croix International , and contributing writer to Commonweal . [1] [2]
He was on the faculty at the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, Minnesota) from 2009 to 2016, where he was the founding director of the Institute for Catholicism and Citizenship. [3] In 2017 and 2018 he was an adjunct professor at the Broken Bay Institute, part of the Australian Institute of Theological Education in Sydney, Australia. [4] [5] [6]
He worked in the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies in Bologna between 1996 and 2008 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Turin in 2002. [7]
Since 2016 he is full professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University (Philadelphia). He was the founding director (2014-2015) of the Institute for Catholicism and Citizenship and on the faculty in the Department of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul (Minnesota) between 2009 and 2016. He writes regularly for newspapers and journals on the Church, religion and politics, frequently gives public lectures on the Church and on Vatican II. Faggioli was the founding co-chair (2012-2017) of the study group “Vatican II Studies” for the “American Academy of Religion”. [8]
His "Annual Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Lecture" held at the University of South Carolina on October 7, 2013 and published in America on February 24, 2014 issue, focusing on the relationship between Catholics and politics. [9]
Since November 2014 he is columnist for La Croix International (formerly Global Pulse Magazine), and since 2016 for Commonweal magazine. [10] Since 2016 he is staff writer for the Italian Catholic magazine "Il Regno". In 2018 he received from Sacred Heart University (Connecticut, USA) an honorary doctorate in theology. In 2023 he was elected in the editorial board of "Concilium - International Journal of Theology". He is member of the steering committee for the project “Vatican II: Event and Mandate” for a multi-volume, intercontinental commentary of Vatican II. He is co-editor with Bryan Froehle of the new series “Studies in Global Catholicism” for Brill Publishers (first volume in 2024). https://brill.com/display/serial/SGC
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