Sr. Caterina Cirielleo

is a Religious of the Missionary Congregation of the Daughters of Jesus (Salamanca) and lives and works in Rome. She is Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology and History of Spirituality in the Faculty of Missiology (ISCSM) and a visiting  professor of Church History at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum). For many years she has dedicated herself to ecumenical spirituality, especially in the "feminine" dimension. She is part of the ISACEM Executive Committee (Rome) and is a member of the Association of Teachers of Ecumenism.  She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal "Notes et Documents” and is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal "CVII. Studies and research,” and of the scientific committee of the series of Theological and History Studies of the Church" Thesaurus (Aracne publishing house).   Lately she has been appointed a member of the Editorial Board of the UUJ, at the Pontifical Urbaniana University. 

She has written many articles in various scientific and even popular journals, including Vita Pastorale. Among her book publications are Dorothy Day: The choices of love (2011); The Gospel in Life: A spirituality for everyday (2011); Pietro Pavan: The metamorphoses of Social Doctrine in the Pontificate of Pius XII (2012); The Contribution of Religious sisters to "Perfectae Caritatis”- Remembering to Look to the Future (2015). Her latest book is “Women and the Christianization of Europe - from Gregory the Great to Boniface of Fulda" (2017).

Sr. Caterina is a founding member of the Round Table on the Feminine Dimension.