{"id":78196,"date":"2026-03-22T23:05:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=78196"},"modified":"2026-03-22T23:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:05:26","slug":"pope-appoints-catholic-harvard-professor-to-vatican-social-sciences-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/pope-appoints-catholic-harvard-professor-to-vatican-social-sciences-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"El Papa nombra a un profesor cat\u00f3lico de Harvard para la academia de ciencias sociales del Vaticano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Papa Le\u00f3n XIV ha nombrado a un profesor de epidemiolog\u00eda de la Universidad de Harvard y director del Programa de Florecimiento Humano para la Academia Pontificia de Ciencias Sociales.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler J. VanderWeele, cat\u00f3lico, es tambi\u00e9n codirector de la Iniciativa sobre Salud, Espiritualidad y Religi\u00f3n en la Universidad de Harvard y colaborador del Instituto de Estudios de la Familia, que promueve el matrimonio y las estructuras familiares tradicionales.<\/p>\n<p>VanderWeele se une a otros 35 miembros ordinarios \u2014acad\u00e9micos y profesionales en los campos del derecho, la ciencia pol\u00edtica, la econom\u00eda y la sociolog\u00eda\u2014 en la academia vaticana.<\/p>\n<p>VanderWeele dijo a EWTN News que est\u00e1 agradecido \u201cpor la oportunidad de participar y contribuir\u201d al trabajo de la Academia Pontificia de Ciencias Sociales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLa doctrina social cat\u00f3lica ha moldeado poderosamente la forma en que pienso sobre mi propio trabajo y sobre la b\u00fasqueda del florecimiento social\u201d, dijo.<\/p>\n<p>El acad\u00e9mico, que ingres\u00f3 en la Iglesia Cat\u00f3lica en 2012, dijo: \u201cLos principios de la dignidad de la persona humana, el bien com\u00fan, la subsidiariedad y la solidaridad proporcionan una poderosa hoja de ruta para nuestra vida en com\u00fan. Ciertamente necesitamos conservar lo que es distintivo de la fe cat\u00f3lica, pero tambi\u00e9n necesitamos encontrar puntos en com\u00fan con los dem\u00e1s, y estos principios de la doctrina social cat\u00f3lica pueden ayudarnos a hacerlo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>VanderWeele posee t\u00edtulos en matem\u00e1ticas, filosof\u00eda, teolog\u00eda, finanzas y bioestad\u00edstica de Harvard, la Universidad de Oxford y la Universidad de Pensilvania.<\/p>\n<p>La Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Am\u00e9rica otorg\u00f3 a VanderWeele un doctorado honoris causa en 2020.<\/p>\n<p>VanderWeele describi\u00f3 su trabajo en el Programa de Florecimiento Humano como un objetivo \u201cpara crear una \u2018epidemiolog\u00eda positiva\u2019, en la que estudiamos la distribuci\u00f3n y los determinantes del bienestar, y para ampliar el alcance de la salud p\u00fablica para incluir la promoci\u00f3n del florecimiento individual y social\u201d, seg\u00fan el sitio web de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pass.va\/en\/academicians\/ordinary\/vanderweele.html\">la academia de ciencias sociales<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>En 2015, el profesor se uni\u00f3 a un grupo de acad\u00e9micos para presentar un escrito amicus curiae en el caso Obergefell v. Hodges, argumentando que no existe un derecho constitucional al matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo.<\/p>\n<p>VanderWeele tambi\u00e9n ha escrito sobre el tema de la prevenci\u00f3n y sanaci\u00f3n del <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/human-flourishing\/202103\/preventing-and-healing-child-abuse-in-religious-communities\">abuso sexual infantil<\/a> en comunidades religiosas.<\/p>\n<p>Habl\u00f3 sobre la contribuci\u00f3n del cristianismo a la noci\u00f3n de florecimiento humano en una charla para el Veritas Forum en el Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico de Massachusetts en 2023.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/czSS5CoFjNk?si=TERUjQ2o_JX9o_H9\" title=\"Contenido incrustado\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Establecida por el Papa Juan Pablo II en 1994, la Academia Pontificia de Ciencias Sociales re\u00fane a acad\u00e9micos de una amplia gama de or\u00edgenes religiosos y no religiosos. Los miembros ordinarios actuales incluyen a la te\u00f3loga cat\u00f3lica <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtnnews.com\/vatican\/australian-professor-and-french-philosopher-win-ratzinger-prize\">Tracey Rowland<\/a> y al economista <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtnnews.com\/vatican\/pope-francis-names-jeffrey-sachs-to-pontifical-academy\">Jeffrey Sachs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>La academia est\u00e1 dirigida por la hermana Helen Alford, OP, presidenta, y el cardenal Peter Turkson, canciller.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtnnews.com\/vatican\/pope-appoints-catholic-harvard-professor-to-vatican-social-sciences-academy\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ewtnnews.com\/vatican\/pope-appoints-catholic-harvard-professor-to-vatican-social-sciences-academy<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV has appointed a Harvard University epidemiology professor and director of the Human Flourishing Program to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Tyler J. VanderWeele, a Catholic, is also co-director of the Initiative on Health, Spirituality, and Religion at Harvard University and a contributor to the Institute for Family Studies, which promotes traditional [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-78196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":78281,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/vatican-official-says-notre-dame-controversy-shows-need-for-dialogue-on-abortion\/","url_meta":{"origin":78196,"position":0},"title":"Vatican official says Notre Dame controversy shows need for dialogue on abortion","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"marzo 21, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life said Tuesday the Church needs to maintain a dialogue with universities on the issue of abortion.Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro was responding to a question about controversy over the leadership appointment of a pro-abortion professor at the University of Notre Dame \u2014 and whether\u2026","rel":"","context":"En \u00abChristian News\u00bb","block_context":{"text":"Christian News","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/category\/christian-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38035,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/leo-xiv-names-cardinal-reina-chancellor-of-john-paul-ii-marriage-and-family-institute-in-rome\/","url_meta":{"origin":78196,"position":1},"title":"Leo XIV names Cardinal Reina chancellor of John Paul II marriage and family institute in Rome","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"mayo 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Italian Cardinal Baldassare Reina was created a cardinal by Pope Francis during the consistory at St. Peter\u2019s Basilica on Dec. 7, 2024. \/ Credit: Daniel Iba\u00f1ez\/CNA Vatican City, May 20, 2025 \/ 10:43 am (CNA). 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