CST Encounter Series: Kate Ward

Making a Life: Catholic Social Teaching’s Inclusive Definition of Work

Friday, Jan 30, 2026
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Geddes Hall, Andrews Auditorium

Inspired by Pope Francis’s exhortation to create a “culture of encounter,” the institute designed the lecture series Encounter. By bringing leading scholars to campus, the institute creates an opportunity for engaging conversations grounded in the Catholic social tradition, enriching faculty and students, and ensuring that the University is a locus for these ongoing conversations on matters of justice and the common good in our fragmented time.

Kate Ward, Ph.D., is a theological ethicist working in areas including economic ethics, virtue ethics, fundamental moral theology and Catholic social thought. She is the author of Wealth, Virtue and Moral Luck: Christian Ethics in an Age of Inequality (Georgetown, 2021) and has published articles in journals including Theological Studies, Journal of Religious Ethics, Heythrop Journal, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, and American Journal of Economics and Sociology. She serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Moral Theology, Journal of Catholic Social Thought and Asian Horizons.