A collaborative effort initiated by the Migrants and Refugees section of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, Doing Theology from the Existential Peripheries “aims at deepening the teaching of Pope Francis and promoting a renewal of theology.” Please find the continental working group reports here and videos and guidebooks that continue to be updated here. Click here to subscribe to the Migrants and Refugees’ YouTube channel. I’ll continue to link below to resources about the project that may be helpful to theologians and colleagues in ministry.

Conferences and Panel Presentations

“Doing Theology from the Existential Peripheries” Pontifical Urban University, October 12, 2022
”Doing Theology from the Peripheries: Listening in North America,” St. John’s/Catholic Relief Services, November 2, 2022
”Doing Theology from the Peripheries: Roundtable Discussion and Analysis from North American Working Group for the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development Project,” Catholic Theological Society of America, June 8, 2023

Media Coverage

“Theology Professor Works with Vatican on Global Project” by Taylor Ha, October 21, 2022
“St. John’s Professor Appointed to Vatican Theology Project on Migrant Experience,” October 31, 2022
“Questions of faith: Vatican project sends theologians to ‘the margins,’” by Cindy Wooden for Catholic News Service, November 3, 2022

For a General Audience

”Doing Theology from the Existential Peripheries: Listening in North America” by Meghan Clark for Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church Forum, November 1, 2022
”What if the peripheries were really the center that defines the church today?” by Stan Chu Ilo for National Catholic Reporter, November 30, 2022
“‘Gaudium et Spes’ offers wisdom for a divided church,” by Meghan J. Clark for US Catholic, January 16, 2023
”Pope Francis asks theologians to remember the marginalized. Here’s how one global project is responding,” by Meghan J. Clark for America, January 19, 2023
Response to “Pope Francis asks theologians to remember the marginalized. Here’s how one global project is responding,” by John Gonzalez for Locus Theologicus, January 23, 2023