Massimo Faggioli

Massimo Faggioli (born 1970) is a Church historian, Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Director of the Institute for Catholicism and Citizenship at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Early Work

His dissertation discussed the history of the appointment of bishops after the Council of Trent. He studied theology at the Karl-Eberhards-Universität Tübingen from 1999 to 2000 and was invited to work as a post-doctoral researcher in the Faculté de Théologie et Sciences Religieuses at the Université Laval, Québec in spring 2002.

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. He was visiting adjunct professor at the University of Bologna, the University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, and at the Free University of Bolzano.

He moved to the United States in 2008, where he was visiting fellow at the Jesuit Institute at Boston College between 2008 and 2009.

Today

He is an Associate professor of theology and director of the Institute for Catholicism and Citizenship at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul (Minnesota). He writes regularly for newspapers and journals on the Church, religion and politics, frequently gives public lectures on the Church and on Vatican II, and he is co-chair of the new study group “Vatican II Studies” for the “American Academy of Religion” (2012–2016). He has lectured in North America, Europe, and Asia. His publication record includes books (author and editor), articles and essays, book reviews, documentaries, and newspaper columns. His books and essays have been published in academic journals in Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia, in Italian, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

His "Annual Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Lecture" held at the University of South Carolina on October 7, 2013 and published in "America Magazine" on February 24, 2014 issue, focusing on the relationship between Catholics and politics,[1] sparked a debate with Catholic moral theologians such as William Cavanaugh and Michael Baxter.

Since November 2014 he is columnist for Global Pulse Magazine.

Relevant Publications

  1. Il vescovo e il concilio. Modello episcopale e aggiornamento al Vaticano II, Il Mulino, Bologna 2005, 476 pp.
  2. Breve storia dei movimenti cattolici, Carocci, Roma 2008, 146 pp. (Spanish translation: Historia y evolución de los movimientos católicos. De León XIII a Benedicto XVI, Madrid: PPC Editorial, 2011, pp. 224)
  3. Vatican II: The Battle for Meaning, New York/Mahwah, NJ, Paulist Press 2012, pp. 207 (Italian translation: Interpretare il Vaticano II. Storia di un dibattito, Bologna, EDB, 2013, 160 pp.; Portuguese translation: Vaticano II. A luta pelo sentido, translated by Jaime A. Clasen, São Paulo, Editora Paulinas Brasil, 2013, 216 pp.)
  4. True Reform. Liturgy and Ecclesiology in Sacrosanctum Concilium, Collegeville MN, Liturgical Press 2012, pp. 188 (Italian translation: Vera riforma. Liturgia ed ecclesiologia nel Vaticano II, Bologna, EDB, 2013, 192 pp.; German translation: Sacrosanctum Concilium. Der Schlüssel zum Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil, Freiburg i.B., Herder, 2015).
  5. Nello spirito del concilio. Movimenti ecclesiali e recezione del Vaticano II, Cinisello B.: San Paolo, 2013, 160 pp.
  6. Papa Francesco e la “chiesa-mondo”, Roma, Armando Editore, 2014, 96 pp.
  7. Pope John XXIII. The Medicine of Mercy, Collegeville MN, Liturgical Press, 2014, 160 pp.
  8. Sorting Out Catholicism. Brief History of the New Ecclesial Movements, Collegeville MN, Liturgical Press, 2014, 224 pp.
  9. Pope Francis. Tradition in Transition, New York, Paulist Press, 2015, 104 pp.
  10. A Council for the Global Church. Receiving Vatican II in History, Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2015, 350 pp.
  11. The Legacy of Vatican II, eds. Massimo Faggioli and Andrea Vicini SJ, New York, Paulist Press, 2015, 320 pp.

References

  1. ↑ http://americamagazine.org/issue/view-abroad

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