Meet the Speaker: Angela Franks

Angela Franks, Ph.D. is a theologian, speaker, writer, and mother of six. She serves as Professor of Theology at St. John’s Seminary in Boston and as a Senior Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge. She is the President-elect for the Academy of Catholic Theology for 2024-25, as well as a Life and Dignity Writing Fellow for Church Life Journal (University of Notre Dame). In August, she will be an Associate Professor of Theology at the Catholic University of America. Her areas of specialty include the body, identity, the Trinity, Christology, and the thought of John Paul II and Hans Urs von Balthasar. Her book Body and Identity: A History of the Empty Self comes out from the University of Notre Dame Press in the summer of 2025. She has written two other books on sexual ethics and the history of eugenics. An experienced speaker, she has spoken at numerous conferences and on EWTN, Catholic Answers Live, FOX News, and many other outlets. She has been published in America Magazine, First Things, Public Discourse, Church Life Journal, Catholic World Report, The Plough, and academic journals such as Theological Studies, Christian Bioethics, Nova et Vetera, Communio, and others.