Career
Massimo Faggioli received his B.A. & M.A. from the University of Bologna in Italy in 1994. [4] 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. [5]
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. [6] [7] During this time, Faggioli was the founding co-chair (2012–2017) of the study group "Vatican II Studies" for the American Academy of Religion. [8] 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. [9] [10] [11] From 2016 to 2025 he was a full professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University (Philadelphia). [12] [13] In 2025 he left [14] and joined the Loyola Institute at Trinity College Dublin. [15] He writes for newspapers and journals on the Church, religion and politics, has written, or (co-)edited numerous books, and gives public lectures on the Church and on Vatican II. [16]
His Annual Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Lecture was given at the University of South Carolina on 7 October 2013 and published in America on 24 February 2014 issue, focussing on the relationship between Catholics and politics. [17]
Since November 2014 he has been columnist for La Croix International (formerly Global Pulse Magazine), and since 2016 for Commonweal magazine. [18] 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 .
Faggioli is a member of the steering committee for the project “Vatican II: Event and Mandate” for a twelve-volume, intercontinental commentary of Vatican II.
He is co-editor with Bryan Froehle of the series "Studies in Global Catholicism" for Brill Publishers (first volume in 2024). [19]
Faggioli's research interests include extreme conservatism within American Catholicism [20] as wells as Integralism. [21]
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