In the Asian and Oceanian Forum, Osamu Takeuchi underscores the urgency of an expansive “true peace,” in the face of escalating global conflicts, including those impacting Japan. catholicethics.com/forum/toward...

In the Emerging Scholars’ Forum, Stefano Intropido illuminates the impact of structural peacebuilding in conflict-affected countries via case studies in Mozambique and East Timor/Timor-Leste. catholicethics.com/forum/health...

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From Hong Kong, Mary Yuen employs structural sin and solidarity to analyze the tragic Taipo fire there in December. catholicethics.com/wp-admin/pos...

In the North American Forum, Ramon Luzarraga retrieves an excommunication case from New Orleans in the 1960s regarding Catholic efforts to defeat racial integration efforts to consider what such a threshold should entail today. catholicethics.com/wp-admin/pos...

In the Latin American and Caribbean Forum, Luis Orlando Jiménez Rodriguez lifts up the significance of integral human development in the face of forces contaminating creation and dividing people. catholicethics.com/wp-admin/pos...

In the African Forum, SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai probes the promise of Christian hope for reshaping his continent’s unfolding future. catholicethics.com/wp-admin/pos...

In the European Forum, Kevin Hargaden builds from Pope Leo’s virtual appearance at the Archbishop of Košice’s birthday party to reflect on connections between communal dance, protest, and imagination. catholicethics.com/wp-admin/pos...

This week, the Planning Committee is in Rome, Italy to meet with heads of Vatican dicasteries, local university leaders, and other Church offices to identify ways to collaborate with the 600 ethicists and moral theologians and counting in our global network of over 80 countries across five regions.

In this month’s Emerging Scholars’ Forum, Thales Martins dos Santos draws on the Super Bowl performance by Bad Bunny to reinforce a decolonial Christian ethic of universal dignity across the Americas. catholicethics.com/wp-admin/pos...

Welcome to the First, March 2026 conta.cc/4tYTegk

In the Emerging Scholars’s Forum, guest contributor John Lemuel Lenon reflects on James Keenan's contributions in the area of university ethics. catholicethics.com/forum/ethics...

In the North American Forum, Hoon Choi forwards intimacy as a modern cardinal virtue for boys and men in a world marked by loneliness and isolating technologies. catholicethics.com/forum/intima...

In the European Forum Ellen Van Stichel offers us a New Year’s Letter from Belgium, urging us to listen before we speak amid overwhelming developments regarding Greenland and beyond. catholicethics.com/forum/a-new-...

In the African Forum, Elias Omondi Opongo analyzes the foundations and modes of Gen Z political resistance across Africa and Southeast Asia. catholicethics.com/forum/gen-z-...

Writing from Indonesia, Bambang Irawan frames the extreme weather phenomena impacting his region recently in terms of ecological disasters, stressing the need for public ethics discourse and policies to prevent future catastrophes. catholicethics.com/forum/urgenc...

In February’s Latin American Forum, Luz Elena Arozqueta traces a Catholic approach to AI that emphasizes persons’ primacy over technology along with understanding technical advances as fruits of human creativity and intelligence. catholicethics.com/forum/presen...

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In the North American Forum, Emily Reimer-Barry recounts her family’s pilgrimage to Selma, Montgomery, and Tuskegee, offering valuable resources for formation amid dangerous memories of racial injustice. catholicethics.com/forum/pilgri...

From Argentina, Aníbal Torres traces the dynamic development of the meaning of social justice. catholicethics.com/forum/la-pre...

From South Africa, Anthony Egan offers a performative window into the promise and perils of artificial intelligence for moral challenges facing the continent. catholicethics.com/forum/an-eth...

Marianne Heimbach-Steins associates essentializing the idea of “order” with susceptibility to authoritarianism in the European Forum. catholicethics.com/forum/fear-o...

Guest contributor Teofilo Giovan Pugeda questions the lack of Asian and African references in Dilexi Te in the Asian and Oceanian Forum. catholicethics.com/forum/an-asi...

In this month’s Emerging Scholars’ Forum, Cecilia Cofrancesco analyzes Pope Francis’s use of “peripheries” and its strategic and programmatic implications. catholicethics.com/forum/el-pap...

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Wishing all around the globe a Merry Christmas, from CTEWC!

Interested in a copy of vol. 8 in the JMT/ @ctewc.bsky.social hybrid book series, entitled "Intercultural Theological Ethics: Fundamentals, Frameworks, Processes," ed by Sigrid Müller, Mirijam Salfinger, & Andrea Vicini? If so, click below to download the entire book. doi.org/10.55476/001...

Don’t miss Conversation with an Author with professor of Theological Ethics @kristinheyer.bsky.social and alum Conor Kelly, editors of ‘The Moral Vision of Pope Francis: Expanding the US Reception of the First Jesuit Pope’ (Georgetown University Press) @ctewc.bsky.social @sofcethics.bsky.social

In the North American Forum, Dawn Nothwehr meditates on the theological roots and significance of mutual love at the heart of Pope Leo’s Dilexi te. catholicethics.com/forum/aposto...

In the African Forum, Peter Knox reports with disappointment on hoped-for progress on fossil fuels at COP30 in Brazil. catholicethics.com/forum/unfcc-...

From the Philippines, Agnes Brazal draws on Catholic social teaching to support a multilateral, anti-colonial foreign policy amid the South China/West Philippine Sea Conflict. catholicethics.com/forum/trappe...

In the European Forum, Diego Lasheras turns to Jacques Maritain for insights on responding to polarizing tensions today. catholicethics.com/forum/back-t...

In the Latin American and Caribbean Forum, Consuelo Vélez retrieves insights from Bernard Lonergan to grapple with the ethical challenges of transhumanism. catholicethics.com/forum/transh...

In this month’s Emerging Scholars’ Forum, Simeiqi He traces roots of eco-technological ethics in Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Christo-cosmic vision borne from his collaborative fieldwork in China. catholicethics.com/forum/an-eco...

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In the North American Forum, Victor Carmona reflects on the pastoral and ethical challenges he foresees in light of his experiences accompanying immigrants in court at the US-Mexico border. catholicethics.com/forum/theolo...

In the European Forum, Martin Lintner sets his hope for sustainable forms of tourism against a backdrop of more compromising and shallow forms dominating in parts of the continent. catholicethics.com/forum/an-ess...

From India, Stan Alla highlights a “new springtime” Pope Leo is ushering in, focusing our attention on ministering to those who are poor. catholicethics.com/forum/the-po...

In the Latin American and Caribbean Forum, MT Dávila continues her series of analytical reflections on the moral tragedy of the war in Gaza at the juncture of a “fragile ceasefire”. catholicethics.com/forum/un-dia...

In the African Forum, Anthony Egan shares from his experiences exploring the moral challenges of populism in our related Virtual Table. catholicethics.com/forum/the-da...

In this month’s Emerging Scholars’ Forum, Federico Cinocca cautions about the cooptation of gender ideology for far-right populist aims through an Italian case study.

Welcome to the First, November 2025 conta.cc/49q1IoE

"El coloquio... se configuró en un espacio de verdadero diálogo... teniendo presente que «la frontera no es un límite, sino un espacio de encuentro, compasión y misión» " -- Luz Elena Arozqueta Villeda christus.jesuitasmexico.org/fronteras-qu...

In the North American Forum, Christina McRorie highlights the potential of maternal humanism to sensitize our gaze in the face of political violence and cultural hostilities. catholicethics.com/forum/where-...

In the Latin American and Caribbean Forum, Cleusa Caldeira denounces the violent and colonizing forces harming Afro-diasporic and Indigenous religious cultures in Brazil.

Read coverage of the recent event, created by the CTEWC Migrations and Borders virtual table, by member Luis Donaldo González in Vatican News: www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

We are delighted that the print version of "Plastic Pollution, Theological Ethics, and the Call of Laudato Si'" is now available from Wipf and Stock! @ctewc.bsky.social wipfandstock.com/979838525533...

In the European Forum, Gregor Buss continues his reflections on the Israel-Hamas war in light of insights from prominent scholars of Jewish military ethics.

In the African Forum, Reginald Nalugala takes up Gen Z riots in Kenya and Nepal to probe the concerns and values of the next generation. catholicethics.com/forum/the-ge...

From Indonesia, Dionius Bismoko Mahamboro frames recent nationwide riots there in terms of structural sins that lead to despair. catholicethics.com/forum/anatom...