The 2024/2025 Academic Guide is available.
Enrollment will begin on Monday, September 2, 2024.
The inauguration of the 40th Academic Year will take place on Monday, October 7, 2024.
2024/2025 Academic Guide
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School of Theology
School of Canon Law
The Grand Chancellor of the University, Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, has appointed Reverend Professor Giovanni Zaccaria as Vice-Rector for the 2024-2028 term, replacing Reverend Professor Davide Cito.
Professor Cristina Reyes has been confirmed for an additional term (2024-2028) as Academic Vice-Rector.
Reverend Professor Giulio Maspero will assume the role of Dean of the School of Theology for the 2024-2028 term, succeeding Reverend Professor Philip Goyret.
Finally, Professor Carla Rossi
On Tuesday, July 30, 2024, the University hosted a group of journalism students and faculty from Brigham Young University, one of the largest private Christian universities in the United States, who are participating in a study abroad program titled "Global Faith, Identity and Media Study."
They were welcomed by prof. Daniel Arasa, Dean of the School of Communication, who gave an introductory lecture about our University and then explained some of the most important topics in communication within the Church.
The "Sustainability and Integral Ecology in Business and Law" conference will take place at the University of Piura in Lima, Peru on July 1-2, 2025.
In honor of the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’s ecological encyclical Laudato Si': On Care for the Common Home, we wish to study the implications of “integral ecology” on business and law. This encyclical introduced the term "integral ecology" into official Catholic social teaching, calling for an awareness of the interconnectedness between humans and nature.
Based on the belief in the Creator, integral ecology appeals to our sense of ecological justice and spirituality regarding creation beyond the duty to exercise stewardship for nature. Catholic social thought uses the term “integral ecology” for
Our University is participating again this year in the Joint Diploma on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, along with other pontifical universities. The theme for the academic year 2024-2025 is The pulchrum: the attractive face of being: thus, the transcendentals Verum, Bonum, and Pulchrum will be explored in depth.
Enrollment is open from September 16 to November 22, 2024, and can be completed by writing to the following address: segreteria [at] sitaroma.com
The University of the Holy Cross will host the session on November 26, 2024, at 3:00 PM, titled Beauty: Metaphysics and Narrative. Federica Bergamino, from the School of Communication, will
A new MOOC (free online course) offered by the School of Communication on Storytelling has been launched on the Discere platform. The course will be available until December 15, 2024.
Led by Professor Juan Narbona, who teaches Value Storytelling at the same School of Communication, the course is accessible in Spanish, English, and Italian. Through 12 video lessons, each lasting 3-4 minutes, the importance and power of stories and how to use them in communication are explained.
Concepts such as the power of stories, narrative structure, character creation, conflict, moral theme, and more are explored in depth. As
The web portal of the Interdisciplinary Documentation Center for Science and Faith (disf.org) celebrates its 25th anniversary. It was conceived, founded, and then directed by Prof. Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti, a professor of Fundamental Theology at Santa Croce.
The domain registration took place on July 21, 1999, initiated by Dr. Michele Crudele, who is now the Advisor for IT Services and was formerly the Director of the ELIS Center in Rome.
The acronym DISF, linked to the nascent Interdisciplinary Dictionary of Science and Faith, was registered. Crudele began designing it together with Alberto Strumia, a
In July, the summer courses in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew promoted by the Polis Institute of Jerusalem
From Monday, July 8th to Friday, July 26th, 2024, the Polis Institute of Jerusalem will organize intensive Language Courses in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew at our University, along with a 10-day Methodology Seminar for professors of classical languages who wish to learn teaching principles through the Polis method.
The lessons are conducted directly in Latin, Greek, or Hebrew, making the studied language the sole means of communication within the classroom.
For students of Santa Croce, the acquired credits can be recognized as credits towards their Licentiate degree upon request to their respective deans.
The academic community mourns the loss of Professor Robert Wielockx, our Theology professor from 1997 to 2018, who passed away on June 30, 2024, in Mol (Belgium), where he had moved in February 2022.
Born in Balen (Belgium) on December 15, 1942, he taught medieval theology at the University of Leuven and was a member of the Albertus-Magnus Institute in Bonn. During his years in Rome, he was a part of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas and the Leonine Commission.
Before his retirement from the University, Professor Wielockx donated several volumes of Theology to our Library.
The funeral will be held on Friday, July 5, 2024, at 10:00 AM at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Mol, followed by the burial at
