On Thursday, May 25, 2017, on the World Africa Day, the University hosted a meeting on Africa, migrants and media.
The speakers were journalist Carlos Laorden, Planeta Future-El País, and Antoine Tiabondou, from the School of Church Communications, author of a study on the issue of migrants in the European media.
The meeting was organized in collaboration with Harambee Africa International.
From May 22 to 26, 2017, a Seminar on Economics and Catholic Social Thought took place, on the iniciative of Markets, Culture & Ethics Research Center and in collaboration with the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture and the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization.
Participants covered foundational principles in Catholic social thought starting with the human person, dignity, freedom, subsidiarity, solidarity, and the common good, and moving toward applications of these principles to conceptual
Meeting "Education and support to break free from pornography: the experience of Integrity Restored"
On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 (11:30 am, Aula Álvaro del Portillo), the University hosted the Meeting "Education and support to break free from pornography: the experience of Integrity Restored".
Speakers: Peter C. Kleponis, Clinic Comprehensive Counseling Services (Pennsilvania, USA) and Sean KilCawley, Director of the Family Office of the Diocese of
Lincoln (Nebraska, USA).
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In recent weeks, the Department of Church History University has signed a bilateral agreement on scientific cooperation with the Institute of History of the University Los Andes in Santiago, Chile.
The agreement will allow, among other races, an exchange of students for periods of study or research, exchange of professors for lectures and research periods, and the joint development of specialized diplomas on the History of Christianity.
On Monday, May 15th (3:30 pm, Basilica of Sant'Apollinare), the Apollinaris de Victoria Ensemble leaded a Musical Meditation for the Easter.
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On Thursday, May 11, 2017, starting at 4 pm in the Aula Magna "Giovanni Paolo II", was held the second edition of the Feast of the University, in the memory of Blessed Álvaro del Portillo, our first Grand Chancellor.
The following day, May 12, at 7 pm in the Basilica of Sant'Eugenio in Rome (VIale delle Belle Arti, 10), the Prelate of Opus Dei celebrated the Holy Mass in the liturgical memory of Blessed Álvaro del Portillo.
"The Encyclical Laudato Si' and the Ecological Conversion. Human being as Subject and Object of Progress" is the title of the Round Table that the University hosted on Friday, May 12, 2017 (8:45 am, Aula A101).
Interventions: Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences; the rev. Arturo Bellocq, professor of Fundamental Moral Theology at the Holy Cross; and Maria Luisa Di Pietro, professor of Bioethics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome.
The event is part of the 7th Specialization Course in Religious Information, which is taking place from 3 March to 9 June 2017.
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Dostoevsky: Live the Mystery was the theme of the Seventh International Conference of "Poetics and Christianity," promoted by the Faculty of Institutional Communication on April 27 and 28 2017.
The aim was to deepen the relationship between the Christianity of the great Russian writer and the contemporary man's sense of emptiness. Participants analyzed his work in an interdisciplinary perspective (from theology to anthropology to cinematography) and so highlight the versatility of his writings and his thought, the way Dostoevsky allows you to enter
On the occasion of the 90th birthday of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (on April, 16), the Research Center for Interdisciplinary Documentation on Science and Faith (DISF) posted on its webpage a collection of "readings about faith and reason," relating to speeches and homilies delivered overed the years by Joseph Ratzinger.
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