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Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD, is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC, and an American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics, and neuroscience and the import of these for theology.
Ilia currently holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University and is the author of twenty books, including "Care for Creation" (coauthored with Keith Warner and Pamela Woods), which won two Catholic Press Book Awards in 2009: first place for social concerns and second place in spirituality.
Her book "The Emergent Christ" won a third-place Catholic Press Book Award in 2011 for the area of Science and Religion. Her recent books include "The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love" (Orbis, 2013), which received the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a third-place Catholic Press Association Award for Faith and Science. Ilia holds two honorary doctorates, one from St. Francis University in 2015, and one from Sacred Heart University in 2020.
A Lenten Invitation
God of Love, open our hearts on this Lenten journey to know that death is part of life, that life seeks more life, and that the fullness of life is…
God can emerge in new ways through Teilhard’s ‘troubled worship’
It is almost five years since the inception of Pope Francis’s encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home” and, unfortunately, nothing has changed with regard to global warming.…
Praying in Teilhard’s Universe
Thomas of Celano, the first biographer of Saint Francis of Assisi, wrote that Francis did not so much pray as he became a “living prayer.” I think the same could…
New Year 2020
Dear friends, Today, on the penultimate day of 2019, I saw a rainbow stretched across the sky in a spectrum of light. A rainbow symbolizes a bridge between the present…