In the North American Forum, Megan McCabe calls for Catholic resistance to the hierarchical gender and family values promoted by Christian nationalism. catholicethics.com/forum/the-ch...

Emilce Cuda unpacks the meaning of its invitation to collaboratively rebuild according to a “new logic” in the Latin American and Caribbean Forum. catholicethics.com/forum/la-org...

From Australia, Carol Ong reflects on growing societal tendencies in terms of the Tower of Babel and Nehemiah’s rebuilding metaphors in Pope Leo’s recent encyclical. catholicethics.com/forum/living...

Guest contributor Anna Blackman traces Pope Leo’s persistent attention to peace, highlighting its foundations, forms, and functions in the European Forum. catholicethics.com/forum/an-una...

In the African Forum, Anne Celestine Achieng Ondigo outlines how Kenya’s data economy raises questions not only of regulation but the very type of human future being constructed. catholicethics.com/forum/beyond...

In this month’s Junior Scholars’ Forum, Federico Cinocca probes how Catholic educational institutions can respond to new challenges in ways that privilege solidarity over prestige and service over power. catholicethics.com/forum/servin...

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CTEWC congratulates Sister Alessandra Smerilli, F.M.A, appointed by Pope Leo as Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. We were energized by our meeting in March and look forward to future collaboration!

In the North American Forum, Kate Jackson-Meyer surveys the methods and findings of the recent Global Flourishing Study to reflect on possibilities for mutual engagement between theology and empirical sciences. catholicethics.com/forum/theolo...

In the European Forum, Dominik Opatrný reflects on emerging attention to male spirituality and LGBTQ+ Christians in the contemporary Czech Catholic landscape. catholicethics.com/forum/male-s...

From Brazil, Cesar Kuzma unpacks the unfolding social and pastoral implications of the Amazonian synod for the region and beyond. catholicethics.com/forum/provoc...

In the Asian and Oceanian Forum, Ý Lan Tran underscores the harms posed to Vietnamese youth by social media and multidimensional modes of response. catholicethics.com/forum/protec...

In the African Forum, guest contributor Amédée Fanomezantsoa Rarivoson reimagines traditional Malagasy healing practices in service of an inclusive model of health care. catholicethics.com/forum/reimag...

In the Junior Scholars’ Forum, Kiran Kumar places the Indian civilizational vision of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam into dialogue with integral ecological vision in Laudato Si’. catholicethics.com/forum/one-ea...

Ya está abierta la preinscripción para la primera conferencia regional de África, América Latina y el Caribe de CTEWC, que tendrá lugar en la Universidad de Ghana, Legon, en julio de 2027.

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In the North American Forum, John Slattery enlists our resistance to the inevitability of artificial intelligence in the humanities classroom and beyond. catholicethics.com/forum/my-cat...

In the Latin American and Caribbean Forum, Luis Gustavo Meléndez invites us to reflect upon the ethical dimensions of home, hospitality, and hostility through the film Sentimental Value. catholicethics.com/forum/el-res...

Marking the anniversary of Pope Francis’s death, Martin Lintner highlights generative themes from the “For the Care of Creation” Mass formula in the European Forum. catholicethics.com/forum/in-har...

Writing from the Philippines, Kristine Meneses suggests how the disposition and ethical-political practices of malasakit can resist entrenched economic injustice. catholicethics.com/forum/resili...

In the African Forum, Alfred Tumwesigye advances a change model to redress the harms wrought by low value care across the continent. catholicethics.com/forum/addres...

In this month’s Emerging Scholars’ Forum, Yohan Garcia underscores the need for reparative justice for undocumented migrants as the United States marks its 250th anniversary. catholicethics.com/forum/americ...

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CTEWC congratulates Most Rev. Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, who has been appointed by Pope Leo XIV as Bishop of Wheeling-Charlston, WV. We are grateful for your active engagement at our October conference in Tijuana and wish you all the best in your new role.

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In the European Forum, Gustáv Kovác invites us to reflect on the “theology-shaping” moments of our lives by looking back at Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s. catholicethics.com/forum/why-sh...

In the North American Forum, Jens Mueller reflects on shifts in the US bishops’ public witness on just immigration. catholicethics.com/forum/prophe...

Up next: the 9th vol. in our Global Theological Ethics series, "Ecclesia of Women as Synodal Third Space," co-editors Kochurani Abraham & Christine Burke--out of the work of the Ecclesia of Women in Asia. Download a chapter or the whole book. @ctewc.bsky.social jmt.scholasticahq.com/issue/14046-...

One year anniversary today, we remain grateful for Pope Francis’s legacy.

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CTEWC mourns the loss of Pope Francis. The church and world have been marked by his prophetic witness, summons to the peripheries, and exemplary leadership. We remain grateful for his support for our network, inc. at our 2017 audience and his 2018 message to our international conference in Sarajevo.

In the African Forum, Ademola Michael Odubela raises concerns about technological advances in ectogestational devices that threaten traditional understandings of motherhood. catholicethics.com/forum/an-afr...