Professor Stephen Pope is an expert on Roman Catholic social teaching; his areas of interest include Catholic ethics and social thought; forgiveness and reconciliation; evolution and ethics; science and theology; moral theology and social ethics; preferential option for the poor; marriage and family; social and economic justice; the Church and politics; human rights; war and peace. Professor Pope has published numerous articles and is the author or editor of ten books including: A Step Along the Way: Models of Christian Service (Orbis, 2015); The Evolution of Altruism and the Ordering of Love (Georgetown University Press); Common Calling: The Laity and the Governance of the Church, (Georgetown University Press) and Human Evolution and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press). He is currently working on Your Neighbor as Yourself: Relating Charity and Justice in Christian Ethics and Religion, Justice; and Reconciliation: The Struggle for Peace with Justice.