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Communicating Transcendent Love: Interpersonal Encounter and Church–State Transitions in Fratelli tutti

Religions, 2022
This essay analyzes Pope Francis’ social teaching on relationality within his 2020 encyclical letter Fratelli tutti [Brothers all]. The relationship between the Church and modern nation-states is an important macro-level social dynamic, and Francis ...
Jon P. Radwan, Roger B. Alfani
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Community as Catalyst for Change: Factors Contributing to US Catholic Sisters Engaging in Environmental Activism

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much of the activism on environmental issues within the US Catholic Church is not coming from those with institutional power (like bishops and diocesan priests), but rather from sisters, who have no formal power. What factors facilitate sisters’ environmental activism?
Sabrina Danielsen, Ellie Simmons
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Widening the Circles of Dialogue: Paul VI and Interreligious Dialogue After 60 Years of Ecclesiam suam

Religions
On the 60th anniversary of the publication of Paul VI’s encyclical Ecclesiam suam, dedicated to the issue of dialogue, we propose an analysis of this document focused on interreligious dialogue.
Rafael Vázquez Jiménez
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Laudato si\u27 - establishing local approaches for global ecological conversion [PDF]

, 2018
In 2017 the Aotearoa Community Development Association (ACDA) and the International Association for Community Development (IACD) held a conference, Sustainably yours: Community development and a sustainably just future, in Auckland where I presented a ...
Jennings, Anne
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Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract AI enables forms of automation that threaten unemployment and deskilling, eliminating important opportunities for the development of virtue. The concomitant loss of virtue and meaningful employment makes it a theological problem from the perspective of Catholic social teaching and theological anthropology.
Paul Scherz
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A Ressourcement Encyclical: Veritatis Splendor and the Recovery of Christocentric Moral Theology

Journal of Moral Theology
This article proposes that Pope John Paul II’s _Veritatis Splendor_ is a ressourcement encyclical that creatively retrieves insights from a movement to renew moral theology in a Christo-centric mode which had flourished in the decades immediately ...
Michael A. Wahl
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Religion, politics, and climate‐protective behaviors: Insights on individual intentions in Italy

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Volume 26, Issue 1, April 2026.
Abstract Climate‐protective behaviors (CPBs) aim to reduce one's carbon footprint and to engage others in climate saving. Under the late Pope Francis's leadership (2013–2025), the Catholic Church, to which most Italians belong, paid increasing attention to the planetary crisis and advocated for lifestyle changes to protect the climate.
Martino Mazzoleni, Claudio Cozzi Fucile, Andrea Scavo   +2 more
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Brunia Lam., Encycl.

, 2019
6. Brunia Lam., Encycl. 1(2): 474. 1785, nom. cons. [McNeill & al., ICBN: 307. 2006], non L. (1754); Pillans in J. S. African Bot. 13: 178. 1947 p.p. ≡ Nebelia Neck. ex Sweet, Hort. Brit.: 116. 1830, nom. illeg. et rej. (ICBN Art. 14.4); Pillansin J. S. African Bot. 13: 178. 1947 – Type: Brunia paleacea P.J. Bergius ≡ Nebelia paleacea (P.J. Bergius)
Claßen-Bockhoff, Regine, Oliver, Edward G. H., Hall, Anthony V., Quint, Marcus   +3 more
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 686-697, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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The Scales Integral to Ecology: Hierarchies in Laudato Si’ and Christian Ecological Ethics

Religions, 2019
Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ advocates for an “ecological conversion” to the ideal of “integral ecology”. In so doing, it offers insights into different scales of moral attention, resonating with sophisticated thinking ...
Kevin J. O’Brien
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