Roman Globokar
Roman Globokar (born 1971) studied theology in Ljubljana and Rome, where he obtained his doctorate in moral theology from the Gregorian University in 2001. The title of his doctoral thesis is Verantwortung für alles, was lebt: von Albert Schweitzer und Hans Jonas zu einer theologischen Ethik des Lebens (Responsibility for Everything That Lives: From Albert Schweitzer and Hans Jonas to a Theological Ethics of Life). In 2000, he completed his specialization in bioethics at the Institute for Bioethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the Catholic University of Rome.
In the fall of 2001, he began working as an assistant at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Ljubljana (UL TEOF) and as a teacher of religion and culture at the Diocesan Classical Gymnasium in Ljubljana. In 2005, he began lecturing at UL TEOF. From 2006 to 2018, he was director of the St. Stanislav Institute. In 2009, he was elected assistant professor and in 2021 associate professor of moral theology at UL TEOF. Since 2025, he has also been lecturing at the Faculty of Biotechnology at the University of Ljubljana.
He has given guest lectures at the following foreign universities: University of Vienna, University of Graz, Palacký University in Olomouc, Charles University in Prague, University of Opole, University of Zagreb, and the Theological College in Pécs.
From January to March 2015, he was a visiting scholar at Boston College in the United States, from March to June 2018 at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and in June and July 2019 at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Erfurt in Germany.
Since 2005, he has been a member of the Slovenian Commission for Medical Ethics, and since 2023, he has also been a member of the Ethics Committee at COMECE in Brussels. From 2009 to 2011, he was a member of the expert group for the preparation of the White Paper on Education and Training in Slovenia. From 2011 to 2023, he was a member of the Expert Council for General Education of the Republic of Slovenia. In 2013, he was appointed advisor to the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the field of school education.
He is a member of international associations in the field of ethics and bioethics (Association of Bioethicists of Central Europe, Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, Societas Ethica, Internationale Vereinigung für Moraltheologie und Sozialethik, European Society for Catholic Theology).
He has organized several international symposia on ethical and pedagogical issues.
Since 2015, he has been active as a researcher in the UL TEOF program group "Religion, Ethics, Education, and Challenges of Contemporary Society." Since 2025, he has been the head of the program group. He participates in ARIS projects on theological and philosophical reflection on the process of digitalization. He was the head of the Slovenian research team in the international projects Integrity (2019-2022) and Educate to build resilience (2019-2021). He was the head of the European project BIOSEM on teaching bioethics in secondary schools (2022-2024). He participated in the European project LOOP on mentoring in education (2021-2024) and in the project AI-THOS on the role of AI in the pedagogical process (2024).
He participated in preparing the Lexicon of Christian Ethics (2004-2007). He is a co-author of the curriculum and textbooks for the subject Faith and Culture, which is taught at Catholic secondary schools in Slovenia. He published the first comprehensive monograph in Slovenian on fundamental moral theology (Christian Ethics between Universality and Particularity, 2013) and a monograph entitled Educational Challenges for Schools in the Digital Age (2019). In 2025, he published a university textbook on Bioethics. He writes scientific, professional, and popular articles, lectures at domestic and international symposia, and is involved in the media in the fields of ethics and education.
Address: Poljanska c. 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
In the fall of 2001, he began working as an assistant at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Ljubljana (UL TEOF) and as a teacher of religion and culture at the Diocesan Classical Gymnasium in Ljubljana. In 2005, he began lecturing at UL TEOF. From 2006 to 2018, he was director of the St. Stanislav Institute. In 2009, he was elected assistant professor and in 2021 associate professor of moral theology at UL TEOF. Since 2025, he has also been lecturing at the Faculty of Biotechnology at the University of Ljubljana.
He has given guest lectures at the following foreign universities: University of Vienna, University of Graz, Palacký University in Olomouc, Charles University in Prague, University of Opole, University of Zagreb, and the Theological College in Pécs.
From January to March 2015, he was a visiting scholar at Boston College in the United States, from March to June 2018 at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and in June and July 2019 at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Erfurt in Germany.
Since 2005, he has been a member of the Slovenian Commission for Medical Ethics, and since 2023, he has also been a member of the Ethics Committee at COMECE in Brussels. From 2009 to 2011, he was a member of the expert group for the preparation of the White Paper on Education and Training in Slovenia. From 2011 to 2023, he was a member of the Expert Council for General Education of the Republic of Slovenia. In 2013, he was appointed advisor to the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the field of school education.
He is a member of international associations in the field of ethics and bioethics (Association of Bioethicists of Central Europe, Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, Societas Ethica, Internationale Vereinigung für Moraltheologie und Sozialethik, European Society for Catholic Theology).
He has organized several international symposia on ethical and pedagogical issues.
Since 2015, he has been active as a researcher in the UL TEOF program group "Religion, Ethics, Education, and Challenges of Contemporary Society." Since 2025, he has been the head of the program group. He participates in ARIS projects on theological and philosophical reflection on the process of digitalization. He was the head of the Slovenian research team in the international projects Integrity (2019-2022) and Educate to build resilience (2019-2021). He was the head of the European project BIOSEM on teaching bioethics in secondary schools (2022-2024). He participated in the European project LOOP on mentoring in education (2021-2024) and in the project AI-THOS on the role of AI in the pedagogical process (2024).
He participated in preparing the Lexicon of Christian Ethics (2004-2007). He is a co-author of the curriculum and textbooks for the subject Faith and Culture, which is taught at Catholic secondary schools in Slovenia. He published the first comprehensive monograph in Slovenian on fundamental moral theology (Christian Ethics between Universality and Particularity, 2013) and a monograph entitled Educational Challenges for Schools in the Digital Age (2019). In 2025, he published a university textbook on Bioethics. He writes scientific, professional, and popular articles, lectures at domestic and international symposia, and is involved in the media in the fields of ethics and education.
Address: Poljanska c. 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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advocate the primacy of an intrinsic notion of dignity, which is the foundation for unconditional respect for every human person. In the dying phase, a person does not lose his or her dignity, but respect for his or her dignity obliges us to respect his or her autonomy, to listen to his or her wishes regarding the forms and methods of treatment, and to provide him or her with comprehensive support and care in the last stages of life.
moral sphere. He understands vulnerability in a broader, ontological sense,
which means that every human being is vulnerable because everyone is fragile and imperfect. It is this state of vulnerability that opens the individual up to relating with others, connecting, to an attitude of empathy, compassion and solidarity, to finding creative solutions. At the societal level, we have recently experienced vulnerability in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and in facing the war in Ukraine, which, on one hand, reveals our helplessness, but on the other hand, strengthens the search for common solutions and solidarity. Drawing on Hans Jonas, the author discusses the vulnerability of nature, which is being encroached upon by human beings to such an extent that it threatens the quality of the permanent existence of humanity on our planet. The author is convinced
that God is also essentially vulnerable because he is sentient and in solidarity with his people; moreover, in Jesus Christ, he becomes one of us and reveals himself to us in all his vulnerability. It is through his wounds that salvation and the possibility of new life come into the world. Faith in Jesus Christ enables us to accept our vulnerability, to be attentive to the vulnerability of other human beings and the whole creation, and to take responsibility and care of life.