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.

Welcome to the First, June 2026 conta.cc/4u55Wsp

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...

My latest of AI and inevitability for @ctewc.bsky.social "An Ethicist’s Guide to Our Technological Dystopia" disq.us/t/53krpwg

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.

Welcome to the First, May 2026 conta.cc/48qfsyw

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.

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...

Writing from Jamaica, Anna Perkins laments attacks on civil society groups seeking accountability for human rights abuses. catholicethics.com/forum/the-re...

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...

Welcome to the First, April 2026 conta.cc/47vG8NU

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...

Welcome to the First, February 2026 conta.cc/4qIM0uD

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...

Welcome to the First, January 2026 conta.cc/4q3pRqs

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...