Catherine Lemos (Duggan)
Teaching Scholar, Theology
Primary Area: Moral Theology/Christian Ethics
Biography
Catherine Lemos completed a B.A. at the University of Chicago, where she specialized in ancient and moral philosophy. Her dissertation constructs an account of the contribution of human-made law to moral growth, especially growth in the virtues, drawing on Aquinas and an interdisciplinary set of interlocutors. She is interested in research projects that employ historical retrieval of Christian theology to answer questions about the common good today.
Research Interests
Thomistic moral, political, and legal thought; virtue ethics; civic virtues; moral agency within social structures; history of Catholic moral theology
Teaching Interests: Introduction to Theology; virtue ethics
Representative Publications
“Revisiting Human Law’s Capacity to Cultivate Moral Virtue.” European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas (topical issue) (expected publication Summer 2025).
“Theology of Prayer after Auschwitz: Elie Wiesel and Johann Baptist Metz in Conversation.” Journal of Interreligious Studies No. 39 (Summer 2024).
Co-authored with Antonio Lemos. “A virtude da esperança como resistência política na teologia de Metz e Ratzinger.” In Neonazismo, Manipulação moral, e resistências: Um grito profético diante dos distintos rostos da violência na América Latina, eds. Mário M. Coelho, Alexandre A. Martins, André L. B. de Almeida, and Lúcia E. F. Albuquerque. Aparecida: Editora Santuário, 2024.
Dissertation
"Priming Us for Excellence: The Capacity of Human Law to Cultivate Acquired Moral Virtue”
Director: Jean Porter
Education
- B.A. in Philosophy, University of Chicago (2016)
- M.T.S. in Moral Theology & Christian Ethics, University of Notre Dame (2020)