Dr. Alessandro Rovati

Edited Volumes:

• Journal of Moral Theology 14, Special Issue no. 1 (2025), “Veritatis Splendor Three Decades On: Its Legacy for Our Times.” (edited with Jana Bennett)
• Journal of Moral Theology 11, Special Issue no. 2 (2022), “Vocation, Friendship, and the Catholic Moral Tradition,” (edited with Matthew Philipp Whelan)

Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Conference Proceedings:

• “Vocation, Friendship, and the Catholic Moral Tradition,” in Journal of Moral Theology 11, Special Issue no. 2 (2022). (co-authored with Matthew Philipp Whelan)
• “Moral Theology (1)” in Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America 75 (2021).
• “Moral Theology (2)” in Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America 75 (2021).
• “War Is America’s Altar: Violence in the American Imagination,” in Cultural Violence and Peace, ed. Fuat Gursozlu, Boston, MA: Brill. (2018)
• “Mercy Is a Person: Pope Francis and the Christological Turn in Moral Theology,” in Journal of Moral Theology 6, no. 2 (July 2017).
• “The Beauty that Pierces the Heart: Joseph Ratzinger’s Christological Understanding of Beauty,” Selected Papers on Beauty & Aesthetics, Quaestiones Disputatae 6, no. 2 (Spring 2016).
• “Interview with Stanley Hauerwas,” Philosophical News: Rivista di Filosofia 4 (2012).

Essays in Online Journals:

• “Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, and Living Christianity in a Secular Age,” Church Life Journal, August 3, 2023.
• “History and Person: Newman’s Approach and Contemporary Issue,” Newman Review, November 10, 2022.
• “The Uncomfortable Truths Face Masks Reveal,” Church Life Journal, April 8, 2021. (co-authored with Gina Maria Noia)
• “How To Do Moral Theology Today,” Church Life Journal, February 17, 2020.

Other Scholarly Work:

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte’s Synthesis Report for the Synod’s Interim Stage. (co-authored with Ibis Centeno, Shane Page, and Mary Selby)
• Synthesis Report on the Interim Stage’s Listening Sessions with Theologians. (co-authored with Peter Casarella and Kristin Colberg)
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte’s Diocesan Phase Synthesis Report for the 2021-24 Synod “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission.”
• Co-author of USCCB Pastoral Region XIV’s Synod Regional Synthesis for the 2021-24 Synod “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission.”
• Co-author of “Vivere Senza Paura nell’Età dell’Incertezza: Charles Taylor, Julián Carrón, Rowan Williams” [Living Without Fear in the Age of Uncertainty: Charles Taylor, Julián Carrón, Rowan Williams]. A 67-minute documentary movie that debuted at the 2021 edition of the Meeting of Rimini in Italy and is now translated into English.

Book Reviews:

• “Review of Kate Jackson-Meyer’s Tragic Dilemmas in Christian Ethics,” in Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, October 2, 2023.
• “Review of Jose Tolentino Mendonca’s Thirst: Our Desire for God, God’s Desire for Us,” in Catholic Books Review: An On-Line Journal, August 24, 2023.
• “Review of Luke Bretherton’s Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy,” in Catholic Books Review: An On-Line Journal, February 15, 2023.
• “Review of Augustine’s Enchiridion and Instructing Beginners in Faith,” in Catholic Books Review: An On-Line Journal, October 18, 2021.
• “Review of Samuel Wells and Stanley Hauerwas’ In Conversation,” in Englewood Review of Books, March 11, 2021.
• “Review of Charles C. Camosy’s Resisting the Throwaway Culture: How a Consistent Life Ethic Can Unite a Fractured People,” in Journal of Moral Theology 10, n. 1 (January 2021).
• “Review of Thomas G. Guarino’s The Disputed Teachings of Vatican II: Continuity and Reversal in Catholic Doctrine,” in Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, November 5, 2020.
• “Review of David B. Hunsicker’s The Making of Stanley Hauerwas: Bridging Barth and Postliberalism,” in Catholic Books Review: An On-Line Journal, July 6, 2020.
• “Review of Daniel Finn’s Empirical Foundations of the Common Good: What Theology Can Learn from Social Science,” in Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 39, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2019).
• “Review of Massimo Borghesi’s The Mind of Pope Francis: Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s Intellectual Journey,” in Catholic Books Review: An On-Line Journal, June 13, 2019.
• “Review of Alexander Lucie-Smith’s Narrative Theology and Moral Theology: The Infinite Horizon,” in the Journal of Moral Theology 8, no. 2 (June 2019).
• “Review of Alberto Savorana’s The Life of Luigi Giussani,” in Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, July 11, 2018.
• “Review of Julian Carron’s Disarming Beauty: Essays on Faith, Truth, and Freedom,” in Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, October 3, 2017.
• “Review of Luke Bretherton’s Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship, and the Politics of a Common Life,” in Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, October 15, 2016.

Keynote Addresses:

• “‘Christ Who Lives in Me:’ Following Jesus in Veritatis Splendor and Beyond,” Human Action and the Drama of Accompaniment: The 30th Anniversary of Veritatis Splendor, Saint Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry, September 29 – October 1, 2023.

Conference Papers:

• “From Coercion to Fascination: Grades, Vulnerability, and Responsibility,” College Theology Society Annual Convention, Regis University, May 30-June 2, 2024. (co-authored with Jason A. Heron)
• Discussant on “The Reception of Revealed Truth Panel,” A Day of Reflection on the Life and Thought of Joseph Ratzinger, Belmont Abbey College, April 15, 2023.
• “Journeying Together: People Francis’ Vision for a Synodal Church,” Francis at Ten: A Papacy of Possibilities, St. Ambrose University, March 16-18, 2023.
• “Peter, Do You Love Me?” Communio, Giussani, and Catholic Moral Theology,” Catholicity as Gift and Task: The 50th Anniversary of Communio: International Catholic Review, Saint Bernard School of Theology and Ministry, September 30-October 2, 2022.
• “Growing in Solidarity While Masking and Physical Distancing: Christian Resources for the Pandemic,” AAR/SBL Southeast Region 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting, March 12-14, 2021.
• “History and Person: Newman’s Approach and Contemporary Issues,” Saint John Henry Newman Symposium, Regis College, October 23, 2020.
• “With Aristotle and Beyond: Hauerwas and Vanier on Friendship,” de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture Fall Conference, University of Notre Dame, November 7-9, 2019.
• “Building Bridges Through Community Organizing,” Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church Global Conference, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 26-30, 2018.
• “The Church of Joy: Ecclesiology and Mission in Paul VI and Francis,” Pope Francis Conference, Institute for Catholic Social Thought, Villanova University, April 13-15, 2018. (Selected)
• “Pope Francis’ 2017 World Day of Peace Message: Toward a Pacifist Church?,” Concerned Philosophers for Peace 30th Annual Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, November 16-18, 2017. (Selected)
• “Populorum Progressio, the Church, and Community Organizing,” New Wine, New Wineskins: Young Catholic Moral Theologians 13th Annual Symposium, University of Notre Dame, July 27-30, 2017.
• “‘Seek the Welfare of the City Where I Have Sent You:’ The Church and Community Organizing,” 72nd Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 8-11, 2017.
• “Artisans of Their Own Destiny:” Populorum Progressio and Grassroots Democracy,” 2017 Notre Dame Catholic Social Tradition Conference, University of Notre Dame, March 23-25, 2017.
• “‘Come and Follow Me:’ The Christology of the Second Vatican Council and Francis’ Contribution to Moral Theology,” Symposium on Pope Francis’s Vision for the Renewal of the Church, Franciscan University of Steubenville, November 10-12, 2016.
• “Learning the Gaze of Christ: Amoris Laetitia, Mercy, and Moral Theology,” New Wine, New Wineskins: Young Catholic Moral Theologians 12th Annual Symposium, Catholic University of America, July 28-31, 2016.
• “Mercy Is a Person: Pope Francis and the Christological Turn in Moral Theology,” 71st Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America, Caribe Hilton Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 9-12, 2016.
• “Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Nature: The Integral Ecology of Pope Francis,” 2016 Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 4-6, 2016.
• “Killing for the Telephone Company: War and Peace in the American Imaginary,” 28th Concerned Philosophers for Peace Conference, Loyola University, Maryland, October 22-24, 2015.
• “Language Communities and Moral Concepts: The Moral Life as a Life of Vision,” 2015 Annual American Catholic Philosophical Association Meeting, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Massachusetts, October 8-11, 2015.
• “‘Peter, Do You Love Me?’: The Christological Turn in Catholic Moral Theology,” New Wine, New Wineskins: Young Catholic Moral Theologians 12th Annual Symposium, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, July 30-August 2, 2015.
• “Is MacIntyre a Radical Democrat?,” 9th Annual Meeting of the International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry, Saint Louis University, Missouri, July 22-25, 2015.
• “Joseph Ratzinger’s Christological Understanding of Beauty,” The Power of Beauty Conference, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, 24-25 October 2014.
• “MacIntyre and Natural Law: An Alternative Narrative of Well-Being,” 6th Annual Meeting of the International Society of MacIntyrean Enquiry, Nottingham, United Kingdom, July 2012.
• “Alasdair MacIntyre and the ‘After Virtue Project’: A Narrative of Practical Rationality,” Conference of the University of Nottingham Centre of Theology and Philosophy, Krakow, Poland, June 2011.