Mary Beth Yount, PhD
Book Chapter Contributions
(Forthcoming Jun 2024) Yount, Mary Beth. “The Synods on the Family” in Catholic Family Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations, Georgetown University Press. Volume editors, Jacob M. Kohlhaas & Mary M. Doyle Roche, 2024.
Yount, Mary Beth. “The Undomesticated Church: Inspiration and the Mission of the Family” in The Survival of Dulles: Reflections on a Second Century of Influence. Edited by Michael Canaris. NY: Fordham University Press, 2021.
Yount, Mary Beth. “Hospitality and Disruption: The Church as Sanctuary” in Global Indifference? The Church and Migration, eds Darren Dias, Gerard Mannion, Michael Attridge, and Jerry Skira. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Yount, Mary Beth. “‘Shared Responsibility’: Practical Involvement of the Laity” in Full, Conscious and Active: Lay Participation in the Church’s Dialogue with the World. Edited by Donna L. Orsuto and Robert S. White, Preface by Seán Patrick Cardinal O’Malley. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2020.
Yount, Mary Beth. “Learning to Love,” the introduction for The Family, the Church, and the Real World. Liguori, MO: Liguori Publications, 2015. (Two-time Catholic Press Association awardee.)
Yount, Mary Beth. “Created for Joy” in Love is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive, A Preparatory Catechesis for the World Meeting of Families. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, 2014.
Yount, Mary Beth. “‘Crazy in Love’: The Nature of Romantic Love,” in Dating—Philosophy for Everyone: Flirting with Big Ideas, ed. Kristie Miller and Marlene Clark; series ed. Fritz Allhoff, San Francisco, CA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Academic Articles
Yount, Mary Beth. “Uplifting Voices for Transformation and Tilling the Church” Philosophy & Theology, ed. James B. South, 35, 1/2 (2023): 335-343 DOI: 10.5840/philtheol202448169
Yount, Mary Beth. “History and Horizons of Lay Ecclesial Ministry in the United States Catholic Church” in Theological Roundtable entitled “Claiming Voice: Ordained and Lay People Co-Creating the Church.” Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society, 49, 1 (2022): 174-227. DOI: 10.1017/hor.2022.5
Jobe, Sarah, and Nathaniel Grimes, Vincent Lloyd, Jason S. Sexton, Kathryn Getek Soltis, and Mary Beth Yount. “Top 10 Tips to De-Carcerate Your Theology, Ethics, or Religion Classroom.” Political Theology, 23, 3 (2022): 1-9. DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2079238
Yount, Mary Beth. “Fraternity, Human Community, and Migration: Pope Francis and the Grand Imam Ahmad Al-Tayyeb.” Critical Theology, 4, 3 (2022): 2-8.
Yount, Mary Beth. “Ruether, Rosemary.” American Religious History: Belief and Society through Time, vol 3 (ency. article), ed Gary S. Smith. California, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2020: 278-279.
Yount, Mary Beth. “Ryan, John A.” American Religious History: Belief and Society through Time, vol 2 (ency. article), ed Gary S. Smith. California, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2020: 243-245.
Yount, Mary Beth. “Privilege, Power Dynamics, and Radical Particularity” in collected essay entitled “Ethnography and Theology in the World-Church: Reflecting on Vocation, Liturgy and Ethics with Selva J. Raj.” Sixty-Fifth Annual Volume of the College Theology Society: All the Ends of the Earth: Challenge and Celebration of Global Catholicism, Orbis Books (Maryknoll, NY: 2020): 218-225.
Till, Robert and Mary Beth Yount. “Governance and Incentives: Is It Really All about the Money?” Journal of Business Ethics (Feb 2018): 28-42. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-018-3778-5, Print ISSN 0167-4544, Online ISSN 1573-0697.
Yount, Mary Beth. “Transmitting Religious Decision-Making through Interfaith Action,” Theoforum Vol. 45 No. 1 (2014): 175-186. DOI: 10.2143/T.45.1.3073540
Yount, Mary Beth. “Thinking Ethically with Lonergan: Foundations for Political and Religious Decision-Making,” guest editor’s Introduction to the Special Issue, Theoforum Vol. 45 No. 1 (2014): 5-10. DOI: 10.2143/TF.45.1.3073531
Public Theology
Yount, Mary Beth. “World Meeting of Families highlights importance of life's messiness,” National Catholic Reporter (Jul 22, 2022) [https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/world-meeting-families-highlights-importance-lifes-messiness]
Yount, Mary Beth and Michael Canaris. “Sharing the Dream: Higher Education Funding for the Undocumented,” America Magazine (March 23, 2021) [https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2021/03/23/undocumented-college-students-financial-aid-daca-240277]
Yount, Mary Beth. “The Secret to Pope Francis,” Crux at Boston Globe, Guest Essay (September 15, 2015) [http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/09/15/the-secret-to-pope-francis/]
Yount, Mary Beth. “The Pope, the World Meeting of Families, and Neumann University,” Accent Magazine Vol. 43 No. 2 (Summer 2015)
Yount, Mary Beth and Marie Milburn. “Angels’ Place: One Child at a Time,” Pittsburgh Catholic (December 28, 2009)
Yount, Mary Beth. “Brookline Kids: A Ministry of Love,” BrookLINES 1 (October 2005)
Yount, Mary Beth. “Stages of a Faith Journey,” Movements of Providence (Fall 2002)
Published Proceeding Summaries
Yount, Mary Beth “Freedom and Fundamental Theology” CTSA Proceedings, Catholic Theological Society of America 2023, Vol 77, 2023: 113-115.
Yount, Mary Beth “Fundamental Theology/Method” CTSA Proceedings, Catholic Theological Society of America 2022, Vol 76, 2022: 122 – 123.
Yount, Mary Beth “Social Media as Sacred Space: Public Millennial Theology and the Digital Age.” CTSA Proceedings, Catholic Theological Society of America 2019, Vol 74, 2019: 168-169.
Editorials
Yount, Mary Beth. “Centering Neuro-Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Professional Fields of Care,” Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling, Vol. 77 No. 2 (2023): 79-80. https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050231180788
Yount, Mary Beth. “Dimensions of Care,” Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling, Vol. 77 No. 1 (2023): 3. https://doi.org/10.1177/154230502311598
