Teresa Forcades

Sister Teresa Forcades is a catalan Benedictine nun born in Barcelona in 1966.

She studied medicine at the University of Barcelona. In 1992 she moved to USA where she completed a residency in medicine at the University of New York and earned the title of Specialist in Internal Medicine (1995). After obtaining a scholarship from the University of Harvard, she moved to Cambridge where she graduated as Master Divinitas in 1997.

She entered the Monastery of St. Benet in September 1997, and celebrated the greatest Benedictine Ora et Labora, joining the order working in different matters in religious study, theology and medicine. In 2004 she obtained a Ph.D. in Public Health from the University of Barcelona. In 2005 she obtained a degree in Theology. After four years, in 2009 she received a doctorate from the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia.

She has written three books: Els crims de les grans companyies farmacèutiques (The crimes of big pharmaceutical companies), La Trinitat avui (Trinity today), La teologia feminista en la història (Feminist theology in history).

Teresa Forcades understands feminism as a form of Liberation Theology. She agrees with the principle of defense of life as a gift from God that must be respected from conception until natural death. She has questioned weather can be morally right to violate the mother's right to self-determination in order to save the life of the child. She believes that the right to self-determination so-conceived is as substantial and absolute as the right to life; in fact, the right to self-determination is the right to spiritual life, it is what allows people to recognize human life as something more than biological life.

During the height of the Swine Flu/H1N1 pandemic, claimed that the flu vaccine was rushed into research and production, and lacked proper scientific basis for public use.

In 2007, Sister Forcades published a book titled Feminist Theology which places the feminist theology under the umbrella of Liberation Theology.