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
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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
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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...

And don't worry -- there has been enough time for some gelato!

CTEWC members from Ghana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Italy, Australia, and the U.S. were involved in the Synod on Synodality, and members currently consult on theological projects with Mons. Tighe in culture and education.

Our day two meetings were full of potential for collaboration and engagement! We started with Card. Grech, the Secretary General of the Synod, and continued with friends of CTEWC, Cardinal José Tolentino, prefect, and Paul Tighe of the Dicastery for Culture and Education.

Dicastery for Evangelization**

Our first two meetings included time with Card. Luis Antonio Tagle and the Dicastery for Education as well as Dott. Paolo Ruffini, representatives from Vatican News, and the Dicastery for Communication.

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
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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
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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...