The Joan & Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought & the Ignatian Tradition

Author Erin Brigham, Kimberly Rae Connor and Vicki Rosen

Erin Brigham is the executive director of the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition at the University of San Francisco. She earned her PhD in systematic and philosophical theology at the Graduate Theological Union in 2010 and continues to research in the areas of Catholic public theology and social thought as well as post-conciliar ecclesiology and ecumenism. Her books include Sustaining the Hope for Unity: Ecumenical Dialogue in a Postmodern World (Liturgical Press, 2012), See, Judge, Act: Catholic Social Teaching and Service Learning (Anselm Academic Press, 2013. Revised Edition, 2018), Church as Field Hospital: Toward an Ecclesiology of Sanctuary (Liturgical Press, forthcoming 2022), and co-edited with Mary Johnson, Solidarity Toward the Common Good: Women Engaging the Catholic Social Tradition (Paulist Press, forthcoming 2022).

Introduction to the Issue

This issue of Pierless Bridges, emerging after pandemic restrictions began lifting, appropriately celebrates the wide world we re-entered, with an emphasis on nature in many aspects — from human nature to our common home on planet earth. We were inspired… Continue Reading →

Journeying Together through a Pandemic

On March 19th, 2020, governor Gavin Newsom asked California residents to shelter in  place. Daily headlines reminded us of widespread illness, death, and loss as the COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly across the globe. Schools and businesses closed their doors. Students… Continue Reading →

Contributors | Volume 3

Editors: Erin Brigham Kimberly Rae Connor Vicki Rosen Contributors: Camille Angel Chad Baron Erin Brigham Kimberly Rae Connor Sergio De La Torre Julia de Prinz, VDMF Stephanie Felton Nora Fisher-Onar Jonathan Greenberg Kouslaa Kessler-Mata Leigh Meredith Carol Miller, SND Mark… Continue Reading →

Encounter, Discern, Respond: Enacting Catholic Social Thought Amidst COVID-19

The storm exposes our vulnerability and uncovers those false and superfluous certainties around which we have constructed our daily schedules, our projects, our habits and priorities.

Contributors | Volume 2

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Bridging Church, Society, and the Academy

A perspective on the mission and work of the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition.

Contributors | Volume 1

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