forthcoming issues
The following topics have been specif ed for future CetV issues and the editorial board will welcome contributions on these topics, in the form of scholarly studies and popular articles. Popular articles will be published based on the editorial board’s decision, while scholarly stu- dies are subject to the editorial board’s assessment and double anonymous reviewing. The editorial board can also reject texts for capacity reasons or because they are not in accord with the journal prof le and the focus of a topical issue.
1/2027 Responsibility of helping professions for democracy
Submissions are accepted in English only.
Deadline: 1st January 2027
The issue 1/2027 of Caritas et Veritas focuses on an interdisciplinary exploration of the social, ethical, and theological challenges emerging in an age marked by populism, polarisation, and rapid technological transformation. In our time, religion and various ideological worldviews play a crucial role in defining different kinds of boundaries — between social classes, nations, the rich and the poor, also between the poor and the poorest, and between native populations and incoming migrants and refugees in and from several parts of the world, respectively. Populist politicians are forming new alliances with churches and religious movements, and new religious communities are being established in the pursuit of greater power.
The social sciences and humanities — and especially theology, ethics, and social work — must confront these waves of populism and the misuse of religion and spirituality, as well as the fear and anxiety they generate, through rigorous analysis of the current situation, its roots, and possible future developments.
Together, the sub-themes of this issue aim to foster a rich academic conversation on how faith, ethics, and social responsibility can respond to and help towards resolving contemporary cultural and political upheavals. We especially welcome submissions addressing the following topics:
• The Language of Populism: Rhetoric of Exclusion, Moral Panic, and Responsibility for Speech.
• Unexpected and/or Innocent Victims of Populism: Family, Marriage, Conservative Politics, the vulnerable/underprivileged, and Individual Responsibility.
• Caritas as Service to the Marginalised/Overlooked and Its Response to Polarisation and Ideological Conflict.
• New Alliances Against Populism: Social Work and Pastoral Care, Civic and Religious Education.
• Truth Telling as Prophetic Witness: Philosophical Foundations of Truth in a Relativistic Culture.
• The Ethics of Belonging: Refugees, Migration, Borders, and the Idol of National Identity.
• Theological Perspectives on Truth in the Digital Age: Ethics of AI, Deepfakes, and Synthetic Media.
• Social Ethics / Catholic Social Thought, Democracy and Autocracy.
• The Crisis of Trust in Institutions.