Master in Public Policy and Management from the Technological Institute and Higher Studies of the West (ITESO) and a degree in Accounting from the Universidad Panamericana. Tenured professor in the Department of Human Training at ITESO, where he has taught, since 2004, the subjects of Philosophy of Art, Philosophical Anthropology, Faith and Culture, Contemporary Faith and Atheism, Business Ethics and Christology. He has been a columnist on issues of culture and music criticism in the newspapers Público, Milenio and Mural; he currently collaborates in the magazine Magis of ITESO and writes weekly the column Ars Cordis in the Archdiocesan Weekly of Guadalajara.

Publications
Chapters of the book
Padilla-Moreno, S. (2010) "" Ethics in politics: reasons for failure in the Mexican case "", in Juan Diego Ortiz and Arturo Navarro (coords.) Ethics and politics. Rupture or affinity in a troubled country. Guadalajara, Jalisco: University of Guadalajara-ITESO.

Padilla-Moreno, S. (2014). "" Pedro Casaldáliga, the bishop with the straw miter "", in Juan Diego Ortiz and Arturo Navarro (coords.), Voices against orthodoxy. Progressive theologians who dissent from tradition (second part), Guadalajara, Jalisco: Universidad de Guadalajara-ITESO.