Professor Massimo Faggioli

Biography

Dr. Massimo Faggioli is professor in ecclesiology at the Loyola Institute at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). He lived/studied/worked in Ferrara, Bologna, Turin, Rome, Tübingen, Quebec, Boston, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and Dublin (Ireland). He received his doctorate in 2002. He did research in the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies in Bologna between 1996 and 2008, when he moved to the USA. Between 2016 and 2025 he was professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University (Philadelphia, USA). He is member of the steering committee for the project "Vatican II: Event and Mandate" for a 12-volume intercontinental commentary of Vatican II. In 2023 he has been elected to the board of editors of the international journal of theology Concilium. He was founding co-chair of the unit "Vatican II Studies" for the American Academy of Religion between 2012 and 2017. He is contributing writer for Commonweal magazine and for the Italian magazine Il Regno. His books and essays have been published in more than ten languages. Among his recent publications: The Liminal Papacy of Pope Francis. Moving Toward Global Catholicity (2020); Joe Biden and Catholicism in the United States (Bayard 2021); The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II, co-edited with Catherine Clifford (2023); Theology and Catholic Higher Education: Beyond Our Identity Crisis (2024); Da Dio a Trump. Crisi cattolica e politica americana (2025). He is co-author of Global Catholicism: Between Disruption and Encounter (2024) with Bryan Froehle, with whom he co-founded and co-edits the series "Studies in Global Catholicism" for Brill Publishers https://brill.com/display/serial/SGC He is under contract with Oxford University Press for a book on the history of the Roman Curia.