Theology Department Faculty

Kristin E. Heyer

Professor; Joseph Chair in Theology

Selected Publications

“‘Heart(s) of Flesh’: Structural Sin and Social Salvation,” Presidential Address,CTSAProceedings78 (2024) 59-88,.

The Moral Vision of Pope Francis:Expanding the US Reception of the First Jesuit Pope,ed. with Conor Kelly, Georgetown University Press: 2024.

“Enfleshing the Work of Social Production: Gender, Race and Agency.”Journal of Moral Theology12 (Special Issue 1): 82–107..

“Walls in the Heart: Social Sin inFratelli Tutti,”Journal of Catholic Social Thought19.1(Winter 2022) 25-40.DOI:

Christianity and the Law of Migration: An Introduction,ed. with Silas W. Allard and Raj Nadella. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021.

“RadicalSolidarity:MigrationintheUSAasa ChallengeforTheologicalEthics” in Charles E. Curran and Lisa A. Fullam, eds.,U.S. Moral Theology from the Margins: Readings in Moral Theology No. 19(Paulist Press, 2020).

“Becoming Islands of Mercy in a Sea of Indifference: Migration, Social Sin, and Conversion,” in Thomas Kelly and Robert Pennington eds.,An Ethic for Bridge Building: Pope Francis’ Practical Theological Approach(Herder & Herder, 2020) 77-91.

“,”Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society6.1 (July 2020) 158-170DOI:.

“Migration, Social Sin, and Solidarity,” in Peter Phan, ed.,Christian Theology in the Age of Migration:Implications for World Christianity(Lexington Books, 2020).

Building Bridges in Sarajevo: The Plenary Papers from CTEWC 2018,ed. with JamesF. Keenan and Andrea Vicini. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2019.

“Beyond the Northern Paradigm: Catholic Theological Ethics in Global Perspective,” with Linda Hogan,Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics39, 39.1 (Spring/Summer 2019).

“Internalized Borders: Immigration Ethics in the Age of Trump,”Theological Studies79.1 (March 2018) 146-164.

Public Theology and the Global Common Good: the Contribution of David Hollenbach,ed. with Kevin Ahern, Meghan Clark, and Laurie Johnston. Orbis Press, 2016.

Conscience and Catholicism: Rights, Responsibilities and Institutional Responses, ed. with David DeCosse. Orbis Press, 2015.

Kinship Across Borders: A Christian Ethic of Immigration.Georgetown University Press, Moral Traditions series, 2012.

Works in progess:

Moral Agency and the Promise of Freedom, under contract with Moral Traditions Series, Georgetown University Press: in progress.