Dr. Massimo Faggioli, a married lay Roman Catholic, is professor in ecclesiology at the Loyola Institute at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). He worked in the “John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies” in Bologna between 1996 and 2008.
He was founding co-chair of the study group “Vatican II Studies” for the American Academy of Religion between 2012 and 2017. He has a column in La Croix International, and is contributing writer for Commonweal magazine and for the Italian magazine Il Regno. He is member of the steering committee for the project “Vatican II: Legacy and Mandate” for a multi-volume, intercontinental commentary of Vatican II. He is co-editor with Bryan Froehle of the new series “Studies in Global Catholicism” for Brill Publishers (first volume scheduled 2024).
His books and articles have been published in more than ten languages. With Catherine Clifford he is the co-editor of "The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II" (Oxford University Press, 2023).
