Global Catholicism

Global Catholicism: Between Disruption and Encounter opens the Studies in Global Catholicism series with an examination of a worldwide religious institution that up to now has been more globally extensive than truly globalized. It explores the world historical and theological meaning of de-Europeanization with church data by world region. Readers get an in-depth look at the institutional and theological capacity and limits of the cosmopolitan reality of today’s Catholic Church. Its integrated perspective, grounded in cultural and political history together with an ecclesiology of post-Vatican II Catholicism, offers a new way to approach today’s emerging post-colonial, inter-cultural Global Catholicism as centuries-old trajectories are disrupted and pressing new realities demand original responses.

Massimo Faggioli is professor of historical theology at Villanova University. Among his most recent publications, The Liminal Papacy of Pope Francis. Moving Toward Global Catholicity (2020) and, co-edited with Catherine Clifford, The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II (2023).

Bryan Froehle is professor of sociology and religious studies at Palm Beach Atlantic University, where he also directs the Ph.D. in practical theology. Twenty years ago he co-authored Global Catholicism (2003), a precursor to this book.