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Margaret Pfeil

Teaching Professor
Co-Director, Catholic Social Tradition Minor

Primary Area: Moral Theology/Christian Ethics

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Office
203 Geddes Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone
(574) 631-9378
Email
mpfeil1@nd.edu

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Biography

Margaret Pfeil is a theological ethicist who teaches courses in Catholic social teaching, nonviolence, and integral ecology. She also co-directs the Catholic Social Tradition Minor. She is a co-founder of the Saint Peter Claver Catholic Worker and its apostolate, Our Lady of the Road. With her husband, Biff Weidman, she is active in Bridgefolk, the Mennonite/Catholic ecumenical movement.

Research Interests

Catholic Social Tradition, Peace Studies, Spirituality and Ecological Ethics, Racial Justice, Ecumenical Dialogue

Selected Publications

Intercessory Prayer and the Communion of Saints: Mennonite and Catholic Perspectives, co-edited with Darrin W. Snyder Belousek. Ontario: Pandora Press, 2022.

Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly with your God: Vatican II, Pastoral Ministry, and Lay Formation for Mission, co-edited with Donald P. McNeill, C.S.C. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Universal, 2016.

The Scandal of White Complicity in U.S. Hyper-incarceration: A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance, co-authored with Laurie Cassidy and Alex Mikulich, with a foreword by Sr. Helen Prejean. Content and Context in Theological Ethics, Series Editor Mary Jo Iozzio. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, paperback edition, 2016.

Sharing Peace: Mennonites and Catholics in Conversation, co-edited with Gerald Schlabach, based on the Mennonite-Catholic Theological Conference, Notre Dame, 2007. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2013.

Violence, Transformation, and the Sacred: They Shall Be Called Children of God (Annual Volume of the College Theology Society), co-edited with Tobias Winright. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2012.

Education

  • Ph.D. (Moral Theology/Christian Ethics), University of Notre Dame, 2000
  • M.A. (Moral Theology/Christian Ethics), University of Notre Dame, 1997
  • M.T.S. (Moral Theology, with Distinction), Weston Jesuit School of Theology, 1994
  • B.A. (Government and International Studies, summa cum laude), University of Notre Dame, 1987