Biography
Maria Cimperman joined theVon Hügel Institute as a Senior Research Associate in 2024, She is a Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, working at the intersection of moral theology, social ethics and spirituality. An ethicist and Professor at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, she is the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Consecrated Life. Her education includes a MDiv (University of Notre Dame), STL (Weston Jesuit School of Theology), and a PhD (Boston College).
An engaging speaker who enjoys engaging global perspectives with a reflective lens that looks at the realities and needs around us, Maria works with women and men in various stages of initial and ongoing formation, leadership groups and congregations discerning future directions. In addition to her writings on these topics, she presents both nationally and internationally with diverse groups on religious life issues.
Research
Current area of research incliude consecrated life, ecclesiology and Church leadership, social ethics, virtue ethics, war, peace, reconciliation and peace-building.
Publications
- Rafael Luciani & Daniel Portillo (eds), “Recuperar los lazos que no unen en hermandad,”(Recovering Our Ties To One Another) Fraternidad abierta 2.0. Reflexiones sobre la Amistad social en un mundo fragmentado, Ediciones Khaf, Madrid, 2022.
- Religious Life For Our World: Creating Communities of Hope, Orbis, 2020.
- co-editor, with Roger Schroeder, Engaging Our Diversity: Interculturality and Consecrated Life Today, Orbis, 2020.
- “Bridging Building with Social Analysis and Theology: A Path Toward Reconciliation and Peacebuilding”, in Thomas M. Kelly and Bob Pennington (eds), Bridge Building: Pope Francis’ Practical Theological Approach, New York, NY: Herder & Herder, 2020, pp. 60-73.
- “What Is at Stake In This?”, in Maria Cimperman, RSCJ and Roger Schroeder, SVD (eds), Engaging Our Diversity: Interculturality and Consecrated Life, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis 2020, pp. 3-10.
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