Lisa Sowle Cahill is the J. Donald Monan, S.J., Professor of Theology at Boston College. She has advised U.S. bishops on issues surrounding AIDS, presented at the Vatican about women’s healthcare, and was an advisor to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The recipient of the 2008 John Courtney Murray Award from the Catholic Theological Society of America for her “outstanding and influential contributions in diverse areas of Christian ethics,” Cahill is the author of eight books and editor of five others. She is a former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America as well as of the Society of Christian Ethics.
Cahill will also explore Catholic notions of feminism, politics, peacemaking and ethics in an evening presentation Jan. 15 for the President's Speaker Series.
