María Teresa (MT) Dávila is an associate professor of practice at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts. She was associate professor of Christian ethics at Andover Newton Theological School, a Protestant seminary located in Newton, Massachusetts, teaching at the intersection of Christian ethics and public theology. Her publications and courses focus on immigration, racism and racial justice, class and inequality, Catholic social teaching and the ethics of the use of force. She is co-editor of Living With(out) Borders: Catholic Theological Ethics and the Movement of Peoples (Orbis Books, 2016). Dávila is the president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS).
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Commentary
Being pro-life and feminist after Roe includes supporting access to contraception
Commentary: A possible post-Roe society asks pro-life Catholics that we reconsider how to engage perspectives that we have often avoided and attacked as contrary to Catholic teaching or scandalous to the faithful.
Column
4 ways the church can get ready for a post-Roe world
Theology en la Plaza: While "surrounding mothers with love" is certainly essential to addressing crisis pregnancies, there are national-level advocacy efforts that will impact the lives of women much more effectively.
Column
US military footprint in Afghanistan — and elsewhere — means we owe refugees
Theology en la Plaza: When we consider justice after war in situations where the U.S. has extended its military footprint, we are indebted to a much broader impacted population than only those who cooperated with our military.
Column
What Pope Francis can teach us about how to respond to migrants
Theology en la Plaza: In his encyclical Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis proposes that welcoming, protecting, promoting and integrating migrants are key markers of truly human fraternity and friendship.
