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Massimo Faggioli is full professor in the department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University.
He studied in Ferrara, Bologna, Tuebingen, and Turin, where he got his PhD in 2002. He taught at the University of Bologna, at the Free University of Bolzano and at the University of Modena-Reggio Emilia. He moved to the USA in the 2008 and he had been on the faculty at the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul MN) between 2009 and 2016.
He is columnist for "Commonweal" and "La Croix International", and in Italy columnist for the magazine "Jesus" and staff writer for the independent Catholic magazine "Il Regno".
His primary specialization is history of Christianity and Council Vatican II, religion and politics, and the new Catholic movements.
His books and essays have been published in more than ten languages.
Among his publications:
- The Liminal Papacy of Pope Francis. Moving Toward Global Catholicity (Orbis Books, 2020)
- Catholicism and Citizenship: Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century (Liturgical Press, 2017).
- The Rising Laity. Ecclesial Movements since Vatican II (Paulist Press, 2016).
- Pope Francis. Tradition in Transition (Paulist Press, 2015).
- The Legacy of Vatican II, eds. Massimo Faggioli and Andrea Vicini (Paulist Press, 2015).
- A Council for the Global Church. Receiving Vatican II in History (Fortress Press, 2015).
- Sorting Out Catholicism. A Brief History of the New Ecclesial Movements (Liturgical Press, 2014).
- John XXIII. The Medicine of Mercy (Liturgical Press, 2014).
- Papa Francesco e la chiesa-mondo (Armando: Rome, 2014; English transl. forthcoming by Paulist Press).
- True Reform: Liturgy and Ecclesiology in Sacrosanctum Concilium (Liturgical Press, 2012: Italian translation 2013).
- Vatican II: The Battle for Meaning (Paulist, 2012; Italian and Portuguese translations, 2013).
- Historia y evolución de los movimientos católicos. De León XIII a Benedicto XVI, Madrid: PPC Editorial, 2011.
- Breve storia dei movimenti cattolici [Brief History of the Catholic Movements], Rome: Carocci, 2008
- Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli - Giovanni XXIII, Tener da conto: Le agende di Bulgaria (1925-1934) [Taking Care: The Private Journals of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli in Bulgaria, 1925-1934], ed. Massimo Faggioli, Bologna: Fondazione per le scienze religiose, 2008.
- Il vescovo e il concilio: Modello episcopale e aggiornamento al Vaticano II [The Bishop and the Council: Episcopal Model and Aggiornamento at Vatican II], Bologna: Il Mulino, 2005.
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