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Emilce Cuda is an Argentine Roman Catholic social moral theologian, university professor and Roman Curia official.

Dubbed “the woman who knows how to read Pope Francis”, she is known for interpreting the teachings of Pope Francis through the Argentine Theology of the People,  political philosophers, and her own native exposure to Pope Francis’ cultural milieu.

She is the first Argentine lay woman to receive a pontifical PhD/STD in moral theology, her diploma signed by the future Pope Francis in his capacity as the Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina.

She is Office Head of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America since her appointment by Pope Francis on 19 July 2021, reporting to the Commission's president Cardinal Marc Ouellet.

Education
She obtained her BA (1990), MA (2005) and PhD/STD (2010) from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, UCA. She studied philosophy at Universidad de Buenos Aires, UBA. She received an MBA (2001) from the Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales.

Work
She collaborated closely with her two principal referents, Juan Carlos Scannone SJ and Ernesto Laclau. She traveled extensively in joint speaking tours with Scannone throughout Latin America, the United States, Europe and China. She joined Laclau at Northwestern University in 2016 to examine populism.

She is a research professor at Universidad Nacional Arturo Juaretche (UNAJ) as well as visiting professor at the UCA, the UBA and the University of St. Thomas (Texas). She was a visiting researcher professor in residence at Boston College (2016) and DePaul University (2019). She is an advisor and professor at the Episcopal Conference of Latin America (CELAM) for its social school CEBITPAL,  She collaborates with the Holy See's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the International Catholic Migration Commission of Geneva in el program "The Future of Work. Labor after Laudato Si y Post Covid 19, with the Economy of  Francis", with the Argentine Episcopal Conference, and with the Pastoral Juvenil de la Arquidiócesis de Los Angeles. She is a visible figure in academic, ecclesiastical and social organizations in Argentina and Latin America. She is a member of the international network Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church (CTEWC), having coordinated the Latin America and Caribbean section from 2016-2018.

She appears frequently at conferences and on-line panel discussions, speaking chiefly on labor issues and the economy of Francis. Her approach draws on the social Papal encyclicals, Catholic cultural and intellectual history in Latin America, and Argentine elements such as Peronism and tango lyrics.

Her formulation ‘pueblo-pobre-trabajador’ does not render directly into English, in which people and poor are not the connotative singular nouns that they are in Spanish. Resonating with Pope Francis’s phrase “God’s holy faithful people” and the preferential option for the poor of Catholic social teaching, Cuda’s phrase suggests that the poor, destitute as they may be, are the workers who make up the people on whom God’s favor rests.

On July 19, 2021 Pope Francis appointed her as Office Head of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.

Para Leer a Francisco - Reading Francis
Her book Reading Francis – Theology, Ethics and Politics (Spanish: Para Leer a Francisco – Teologia, Etica y Politica) was published in 2014. Prefaced by Scannone, it examines the theological and philosophical underpinnings of Pope Francis’ writings. Spanish newspaper ABC wrote, "It allows us to delve into the main lines of Theology of the People, covering the pastoral and ethical implications of the decisions approved by the Latin American episcopate held in Aparecida."

Books published

 * Democracia y Catolicismo en Estados Unidos: 1792-1945. Democracy and Catholicism in the United States.  (ISBN 978-9876401173) PhD thesis. 2010. In Spanish.
 * Democracia en el Magisterio Pontificio. Democracy in the Pontifical Magisterium. (ISBN 978-9876403139) Masters thesis. 2014. In Spanish.
 * Para leer a Francisco. Teología, ética y política. Reading Francis. (ISBN 978-9875002180) 2016. In Spanish.  Translated into Italian in 2018.
 * Nuevos Estilos Sindicales en América Latina y el Caribe. (Editor). New Styles of Labor Unions in Latin America. (ISBN 978-987-722-227-2). 2016. In Spanish.
 * Hacia una ética de la participación y la esperanza. (Editor) Toward an Ethic of Participation and Hope. Prologue by James Keenan SJ. (ISBN 978-958-781-056-1). 2017 In Spanish.