Faculty Directory

Mary Jo Iozzio

Professor of Moral Theology

Professora Ordinaria

SELECTED Courses

  • Introduction to Catholic Social Ethics
  • Theological Critiques from the Margins
  • Call and Response: An Introduction to the Moral Life
  • Social Sin, Responsibility, and Justice
  • Disability, Theology, and Ministry

SELECTED Publications

Monographs

Radical Dependence: A Theo-Anthropological Ethics in the Key of Disability.聽Baylor University Press, forthcoming 2025.聽

Disability Ethics/Preferential Justice: A Catholic Perspective. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2023.聽

Self-Determination and the Moral Act: A Study of the Contributions of Odon Lottin, O.S.B. Leuven, BE: Peeters Press, 1995.

Edited Works

Sex and Gender: Christian Ethical Reflections; Co-Editor with Patricia Beattie Jung. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2017.

Calling for Justice throughout the World: Catholic Women Theologians on the HIV/AIDS Pandemic; editor, with assistance from Mary M. Doyle Roche and Elsie Maria Miranda; Contributor, and translation of one article from French. New York, NY: The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc., 2009.

Brothers & Sisters All: the Pax Christi USA Anti-Racism Initiative, Workshop Teacher鈥檚 Manual; Principal Author and Editor. Erie, PA: Pax Christi USA, 2008.

Called to Something New: A Peoples鈥 Peace Initiative ... A Catholic Collaboration to Articulate the Challenges of Peacemaking in the 21st Century; Principal Author and Editor. Erie, PA: Pax Christi USA, 2006.

Considering Religious Traditions in Bioethics: Christian and Jewish Voices.; Editor and Contributor. Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press, 2001.

Engaging Disability, a thematic issue addressing Catholic concerns at the intersections of theological ethics and disability studies); Guest Editor and Contributor with Miguel J. Romero. Journal of Moral Theology 6. SI 2 (2017).

Content and Context in Theological Ethics, series of monographs and collections of essays with Palgrave MacMillan Publishers, New York, NY (March 2010-present); Series Editor.

The Other Casualties of War: Disabilities, a thematic issue of the Journal of Religion, Disability & Health 12.3 (2008) addressing rehabilitation concerns of soldiers wounded and disabled in war games past and present; Guest Editor and Contributor.

Recent Articles

"Mainstreaming Disability Theology," Journal of Religious Ethics (forthcoming 2024)

"Climate Change and People with Disability: Avoiding Catastrophe," submitted to The Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (2024).听

"Surgeon Gender-Related Differences in Operative Coding in Plastic Surgery," with Loree K. Kallianen, Alison B. Chambers, Heidi Conrad, Joan E. Lipa, Debra Johnson, and Juliana E. Hansen, Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery 10.1097 (September 2022).

"Radical Bioethics: Difference, Disability, and Desiderata." In Peter Clark, ed. Bioethical Issues in Healthcare, 80-108. London: IntechOpen, 2022.聽

鈥淏uilding Coalitions with NGOs: Religion Scholars and Disability Justice Activism,鈥 Religions 9.1 (2018): 1-18; doi:10.3390/rel9010028.

鈥淩adical Dependence and the Imago Dei: Bioethical Implications of Access to Healthcare for People with Disabilities.鈥 Christian Bioethics 23.3 (2017): 234-260.

鈥淓ngaging Disability,鈥 with Miguel J. Romero. Journal of Moral Theology 6. SI 2 (2017): 1-9.

鈥淕od Bends Over Backwards to Accommodate Humankind 鈥 While the US Civil Rights Acts and the Americans with Disabilities Act Require [Only] the Minimum.鈥 Journal of Moral Theology 6. SI 2 (2017): 10-31.

鈥淣orms Matter: A Hermeneutic of Disabilities/A Theological Anthropology of Radical Dependence.鈥 E.T. Studies 4.1 (2013): 89-106.

鈥淎utonomy and Independent Living Movements for People with Disabilities.鈥 E.T. Studies 4.1 (2013): 147-155.

聽鈥淟iturgical Anthropology of a Soulful Sister: Thea Bowman, FSPA,鈥 Journal of Religion, Disability & Health 17.3 (2013): 317-326.

Digital Media

"Disney Studios at 100," The First, newsletter of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, September 1, 2023,聽

"Let Freedom Ring: Since September 1, 1752, the Liberty Bell Tolls for All," The FIRST, newsletter of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, October 4, 2022,聽

"An Apology is the Beginning of Healing: Pope Francis and the Indigenous Peoples," The FIRST, newsletter of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church (September 1, 2922, addendum April 1, 2023,聽聽

鈥淟ost in Space: Mental Health and Self Care,鈥 The FIRST, newsletter of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, September 1, 2021, .

鈥淚f You Sow Lies, You will Reap Violence: America鈥檚 Original Sin is Anti-Black Racism,鈥 The FIRST, newsletter of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, September 1, 2020, .

鈥淐oncerns for People with Disability During COVID-19,鈥 Berkley Forum, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University, April 15, 2020, .

鈥淎dvent Anticipation in a Time of Endless War,鈥 The First, newsletter of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, December 1, 2019, .

鈥淎midst the Tragedies and Violence that Mark Human History, Peace to All,鈥 The FIRST, newsletter of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, January 1, 2019, .

Editorial Positions

  • Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
  • Catholic Social Ethics: Engaging Pressing Issues, Religions 2023