For the first time in 400 years a new monument has been added to Saint Peter’s Square in Rome. Why this particular monument and at this particular moment? What is so centrally Christian about the questions this monument and its placement are asking us?
The current global situation around migration brings together two apparently irreconcilable poles: increasingly xenophobic, nationalist, and racist attitudes on the one hand, and extreme situations of hardship due to wars, climate change and economic upheaval on the other. How do people who embody a faith that does justice practically engage with our explosive and volatile current moment? When a problem is so enormous, how do we activate ourselves into action for love?
Theologian Dr. Cecilia González-Andrieu of Loyola Marymount University, invites us to consider how the questions of migration and the world’s most vulnerable people can become an opportunity for developing and expressing a truly prophetic faith.
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Theologian Cecilia González-Andrieu is a leading scholar of theological aesthetics, which she proposes as a way to bring communities together, respect and celebrate otherness, and lift the theological insights of those who know and express themselves from the peripheries. She is one of America’s contributing writers, penning a number of significant essays on political theology, Latinx theologies, women’s issues and theological aesthetics. Her book “Bridge to Wonder: Art as a Gospel of Beauty” has received international acclaim. González -Andrieu teaches in LMU’s Department of Theological Studies, co-chairs the LMU Latino Theology and Ministry Initiative, is an active supporter of the Ignatian Solidarity Network, an advisor for the Discerning Deacons Project.
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