Pope Leo XIV has named a trio of Catholic academics and the head of a church-based center for migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border to be among the new members of the Vatican’s office on Catholic social doctrine.
The Vatican announced the pope’s new appointments to the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development on March 30. The office, led by Cardinal Michael Czerny, is devoted to the social teachings of the church, including on justice and peace, human rights, migration and the environment.
Among the 11 new members are Holy Cross Fr. Daniel Groody, vice president and an associate provost for undergraduate education at the University of Notre Dame; Meghan Clark, a theologian and assistant chair of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies of St. John’s University in New York; Léocadie Wabo Lushombo, a professor of ethical theology at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley; and Dylan Corbett, executive director of the Hope Border Institute in El Paso, Texas.
Corbett brings to the role more than a decade of work at the intersection of migration, policy and Catholic social teaching, much of it grounded along the U.S.-Mexico border. As a founding executive director of the Hope Border Institute, he has focused on accompaniment of migrants and advocacy rooted in church teaching on human dignity.
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