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Léocadie Lushombo, i.t., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics

Léocadie Lushombo is consecrated, a member of the Teresian Association. She earned her PhD in Theological Ethics from Boston College (USA), a Sacred Theology Licentiate Degree from the School of Theology and Ministry/Boston College and completed master’s degrees in Theological Ethics at the Catholic Theological Union/Chicago, in Sustainable Development at the Universidad Pontificio Comillas/Spain, and in Economics & Development at the Catholic University of Central Africa/Cameroon. Lushombo’s research area is Christian Ethics. Grounding in Moral Theology and Methods in Theological Ethics, she focuses on the intersection of Political Theology, Decolonial & liberation theology, Economics & Catholic Social Thought, African Theological Ethics, and Nonviolence and Just Peace Ethics.

She recently published, (1) Books: Globalization and The New Political Order, (Marquette University Press, 2026); African Women’s Liberating Philosophies, Theologies, and Ethics, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024); A  Christian and African Ethic of Women’s Political Participation: Living As  Risen Beings, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) and (2) Articles and books’ chapters: “This Economy kills”: Christian Moral Response in an Economically Globalized World,” (Marquette University Press, 2026); “Religious Women Teachers of Synodality: The “Abundant Catch” of the Peripheries,” (Orbis Press, 2025); “Ecological Sustainability for ‘Life on Land’: Wellspring of Indigenous Knowledge.” Religions (February 28, 2025); “Luke-Acts on the Primacy of Faith Over Evil Civil/Political Commands,” (Georgetown University Press, 2023), “African Women’s Theologies,” (Cascade Books, 2023), “Fratelli tutti: Toward a Community of Fraternity with the Wounded Women,” (Journal of Catholic Social Thought,  2022); “African Women Christology,” (Catholic Theological Ethic in the World Church, 2022), “The Politics of Forest Conservation: Ethical Dilemmas and Impact on Peacebuilding” (Concilium, 2021), “Ubuntu et les défis théopolitiques des proverbes sur la femme," (Cahiers des Religions Africaines presses, 2021), “Virtue-Based Just Peace Approach and the Challenges of Rape as a Weapon of War…”, (Georgetown University Press, 2020);  “Rape-Weapon of War: A Crime of War and A Crime Against Humanity Contemporary Challenges to Peace and Justice…,” (Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, 2019); “Rectifying Political Leadership through a Just Peace Ethic,” (Journal of Moral Theology, 2019), and “Christological Foundations for Political Participation: Women in the Global South Building Agency as Risen Beings,” (Political Theology, 2016). She has worked extensively as a researcher and Consultant-Trainer on justice, peace, and gender issues in the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa and Latin America. Her interdisciplinary experiences and studies inform her teachings and writings.

Courses
  • Methods in Ethics
  • Political Theology
  • Ethics of Nonviolence and Just Peacemaking
  • Theologies of Liberation: Global Perspectives
  • Fundamental Moral Theology
  • African Theological Ethics: Development and Issues
  • Christian Ethics and Migration
  • End of Life Ethics

 

Publications

Books

  • 2026. Globalization and The New Political Order. Co-Edited with Joseph Ogbonnaya, Associate Professor of Theology, Director of the Marquette Lonergan Project, (Marquette University Press, 2026)
  • 2024.  African Women’s Liberating Philosophies, Theologies, and Ethics. Edited with Beatrice Okyere-Manu, (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
  • 2023. A Christian and African Ethic of Women’s Political Participation: Living as Risen Beings. Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology. (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2023)

Articles and Books’ Chapters

  • 2026.   “This Economy kills”: Christian Moral Response in an Economically Globalized World,” in Globalization and the New World Order, The Lonergan Center, Marquette University Press. 2026.
  • 2025. “Ecological Sustainability for ‘Life on Land’: Wellspring of Indigenous Knowledge.” Religions 16, no. 3 (February 28, 2025): 311. .
  • 2025.    “Religious Women Teachers of Synodality: The “Abundant Catch” of the Peripheries,” in African Synodal Theology – A Tall Tree is as Strong as Its Roots, Orbis Press, 2025. ed. by Orobator. pp. 121-142
  • 2024. “Caritas in Veritate and Africae Munus,” in Modern Catholic Family Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations, Jacob M. Kohlhaas and Mary M. Doyle Roche, eds., (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024). pp. 210-219.
  • 2022. “Fratelli tutti: Toward a Community of Fraternity with the Wounded Women,”, Volume 19, Issue 1, (Winter, 2022) : Pages 141-157.
  • 2021. “The Politics of Forest Conservation: Ethical Dilemmas and Impact on Peacebuilding” In Amazonia: Gift and Tasks, edited by Geraldo L. de Mori, Michelle Becka y John Baptist Antony (eds.), Concilium, 2021/4; International Journal of Theology, (October, 2021): pages 49–60.
  • 2019. “Rectifying Political Leadership through a Just Peace Ethic.” Journal of Moral Theology, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2019): 122-139. Co-authored with Eli McCarthy (Georgetown University).
  • 2016. “Christological Foundations for Political Participation: Women in the Global South Building Agency as Risen Beings.” Political Theology, Vol. 18 no.5 (June, 2016): 399-422.