Medical doctor (University of Bologna, Italy) – 1986.
Pediatrician (University of Bologna, Italy) – 1991.
Ph.D. in theological ethics (Boston College, USA) – 2000.
S.T.D. in moral theology (Pontifical Faculty of Theology of Southern Italy: S. Luigi, Naples, Italy) – 2007.
Research Interests
Bioethics/Medical Ethics
Biotechnologies
Environmental/Ecological Ethics
Fundamental Moral Theology
Global Public Health
HIV/AIDS
Virtue Ethics
Past Events
Sarajevo 2018
Bogotá 2016
Bangalore 2015
Krakow 2014
Berlin 2013
Nairobi 2012
Trent 2010
Padua 2006
Recent Publications
Books: Genetica umana e bene comune (Cinisello Balsamo: San Paolo, 2008).
Just Sustainability: Technology, Ecology, and Resource Extraction, C.Z. Peppard and A. Vicini, eds., Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church Series 3, (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2015).
The Legacy of Vatican II, M. Faggioli and A. Vicini, eds., (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2015).
Building Bridges in Sarajevo: The Plenary Papers of Sarajevo 2018, J.F. Keenan, K. Heyer, and A. Vicini, eds., Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church Series 7, (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2019).
Articles: “Solidarietà profetica per la nostra casa comune,” La Civiltà Cattolica III, nos. 4059-4060 (2019): 282-294.
“Social Justice and the Promotion of the Common Good in Medical Missions to Low-Resourced Countries,” Annals of Global Health 85, no. 1 (2019): 83-84.
“Cultivating the Inner Life of a Physician Through Written Reflection” (with A. Duggan, A. Shaughnessy), Annals of Family Medicine 15, no. 4 (2017): 379-381.
“The role of emotions at the end of human life,” Studia Moralia 55, no. 1 (2017): 99-119.
“L’astrobiologia e noi: Le implicazioni sociali e politiche di una scienza ‘nuova’,” La Civiltà Cattolica II, no. 4003 (2017): 3-15.
Book Chapters: “Environmental Ethics as Bioethics” (with T. Winright), in Catholic Bioethics and Social Justice: The Praxis of US Health Care in a Globalized World, M.T. Lysaught and M. McCarthy, eds. (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2018) 377-388.
“Empowered by the Holy Spirit,” in The Holy Spirit: Setting the World on Fire, R. Lennan and N. Pineda-Madrid, eds., (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2017) 162-172.
Professional Activities and Affiliations
Co-chair of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church.
Series co-editor of the Moral Traditions Series, Georgetown University Press.
Board of directors of the journal Theological Studies.
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
Associazione Teologica Italiana per lo Studio della Morale
Catholic Theological Society of America
European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare