Massimo Faggioli is full professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University (Philadelphia). His books and articles have been published in more than ten languages. He is member of the steering committee for the project “Vatican II: Event and Mandate” for a multi-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 has a column in La Croix International, is contributing writer for Commonweal magazine and for the Italian magazine Il Regno. 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); and Global Catholicism: Between Disruption and Encounter, co-authored with Bryan Froehle, with whom he co-founded and co-edits the series “Studies in Global Catholicism” for Brill Publishers. He is under contract with Oxford University Press for a book on the history of the Roman Curia. He lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife and their two children.
