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Maria Cimperman

United States
Institution Catholic Theological Union
Position Associate Professor of Theological Ethics
Email Address mcimperman@ctu.edu
University Profile Website URL
Prior Educational Background
  • BA Ursuline College
  • MDiv University of Notre Dame
  • STL Weston Jesuit School of Theology
  • PhD Boston College (Theological Ethics)
Research Interests
  • Consecrated Life
  • Ecclesiology and Church Leadership
  • Reconciliation and Ethics
  • Social Ethics
  • Virtue Ethics
  • War, Peace, and Peacebuilding
Past Events
  • Sarajevo 2018
  • Trent 2010
  • Padua 2006
Recent Publications
  • Religious Life For Our World: Creating Communities of Hope (Orbis, 2020)
  • Engaging Our Diversity: Interculturality and Consecrated Life Today (co-editor, with Roger Schroeder). (Orbis, 2020)
  • “Recuperar los lazos que no unen en hermandad,”(Recovering Our Ties To One Another) Rafael Luciani & Daniel Portillo (eds), Fraternidad abierta 2.0. Reflexiones sobre la Amistad social en un mundo fragmentado, Ediciones Khaf, Madrid, 2022.
  • “Prevenir Contra O Sexismo” (Prevention of Sexism) In Teologia Da Prevenção: Por Um Caminho De Humannização, edited by José Antonio Trasferetti, Mário Marcelo Coelho, Ronaldo Zacharias, 299-319. São Paulo, Brasil: Paulus, 2021.
  • “Bridging Building with Social Analysis and Theology: A Path Toward Reconciliation and Peacebuilding.” In Bridge Building: Pope Francis’ Practical Theological Approach, edited by Thomas M. Kelly and Bob Pennington, 60-73. New York, NY: Herder & Herder, 2020.
  • “What Is at Stake In This?” In Engaging Our Diversity: Interculturality and Consecrated Life, edited by Maria Cimperman, RSCJ and Roger Schroeder, SVD, 3-10. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis 2020.
Professional Activities and Affiliations
  • Founding Director, Center for the Study of Consecrated Life (at Catholic Theological Union - USA)
  • Society of Christian Ethics (member)
  • Catholic Theological Society of America (member)
  • Leadership Conference of Women Religious (Associate member)
  • Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Religious order - member)
  • Indigenous justice section of the Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) committee of Society of the Sacred Heart US- Canada province (member)