As is now customary, the University Feast Day was held on March, 10 2022 in memory of Blessed Álvaro del Portillo, our founder and first Grand Chancellor, on the anniversary of his birth.
It took place from 3 pm in the Aula Magna "Giovanni Paolo II", with the performance Travelling with Dante.
The initiative was aimed at students, teachers and administrative staff.
On March 2, 2022, Ash Wednesday, the university community joined the Fasting Day for Peace, as requested by Pope Francis.
During the Mass at 12:45 pm in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare, presided by the Rector of the University Luis Navarro, there was a particular prayer for peace in Ukraine, in union with the whole Church.
In the morning, again in the Basilica, another celebration saw the participation of first-year students from the School of Church Communications, including some from Ukraine.
From February 16 to May 25, 2022, every Wednesday (except April 13 and 20), from 3 to 4.40 pm, the Schools of Theology and Canon Law organize the Optional Course (4 ECTS) Ecclesial Movements: a reality on the way. The service of ecclesial law.
For information and registration: teologia [at] pusc.it (School of Theology) | canonico [at] pusc.it (School of Canon Law)
Dal 31 gennaio al 4 febbraio 2022 si è svolta la VII Settimana di Studio per Formatori di Seminari, con il titolo «Se il Figlio vi farà liberi, sarete liberi davvero». La formazione nella e per la libertà nel cammino sacerdotale.
L'attività è indirizzata a sacerdoti con incarichi nei seminari, e tenterà di avviare una riflessione comune e un proficuo confronto fra i diversi protagonisti nella formazione dei candidati al sacerdozio.
È prevista la modalità di partecipazione mista, presenziale e telematica (in streaming o in differita).
English Course "Lectures on Science and Theology", from February 16 to May 25, 2022, organized by the Interdisciplinary Center for Religion and Science (disf.org - inters.org).
The course intends:
a) to examine those contemporary scientific results and perspectives that seem to challenge our religious and theological worldview
b) to show the significance of the discourse on God in scientific culture.
The faith in God the creator of heaven and earth and the Christian proclamation of the Incarnation of the Word are assessed against the background of our knowledge of the physical cosmos, and of the evolutionary history of life and
On the occasion of the Academic feast of the School of Philosophy onferred the International Philosophy Award "Antonio Jannone" to Professor Rémi Brague (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
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As part of the activities for the 25th anniversary of the School of Church Communications and in the year dedicated to the "Famiglia Amoris Laetitia", on October 29, 2021 there was a Day of Study on the theme Communicating the beauty of the family: the proposals of the Italian Church.
There was, in streaming the participation of Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Archbishop of Perugia and President of the Italian Episcopal Conference.
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From Thursday 28 to Saturday 30, October 2021, in the Aula Álvaro del Portillo, on the initiative of the School of Theology and the Research Group of Relational Ontology (ROR), the Conference From Alexandria to Nyssa: Clement and Gregory in Conversation was held both in presence and online.
The organizers write about it: "While Gregory of Nyssa’s relation to Origen has been subject to much discussion, there has been little attention to the direct or indirect influence of Clement of Alexandria. This colloquium aims to explore the extent to which it is
