On Saturday, June 17, 2023, the Italian Promotion & Development Office hosted an evening fundraising event entitled, "Together...Under the Roman Sky," which will offer scholarships for the formation of seminarians and priests studying at our university.
The event began at 6:30 p.m. in the Aula Magna
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On Thursday, June 15, 2023, the School of Philosophy honored the academic contribution of Prof. Ignacio Yarza, current dean, as he becomes a professor emeritus.
The event was held in Álvaro del Portillo Lecture Hall, at 3:15 p.m., with several faculty members sharing anecdotes about the faculty over the years.
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On Monday, June 5, 2023, Rev. Prof. Philip Goyret, current Dean of the School of Theology, was elected President of the Committee of Deans and Principals of the Roman Theological Faculties. He took over Rev. Prof. Pietro Angelo Muroni’s position, who is the Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Full Professor at the Pontifical Urban University.
The committee, which is a part of the Conference of Rectors of Roman Pontifical Universities and Institutions (CRUIPRO), is made up of the deans (“decani”) of the faculties and the principals (“presidi”) of the institutes where theology or related subjects are taught. Currently, the committee is comprised of 19 academic institutions.
On Monday, June 5, 2023, (5 p.m. in the Aula Magna Giovanni Paolo II) the book My Years with John Paul II - Personal Notes by Joaquín Navarro-Valls, Director of the Holy See Press Office for more than two decades, was presented.
Written as a diary and published at the author's behest after his death, the volume offers not only an interesting glimpse into the behind-the-scenes work of the Holy See, but also reveals some of the great problems humanity has ever faced, which deeply concerned the Holy Father. The book, above all, provides valuable details of the pope's daily life.
Following a Call for Projects, launched in July 2022, to gather proposals related to the university’s academic development, the first research projects for the coming academic years have recently been selected.
Each proposal was analyzed and evaluated by a scientific committee, made up of our own professors and professors from other universities, according to qualitative and quantitative criteria. They were then approved by a steering committee and approved by the Rector’s Board.
PROJECTS SUBMITTED
A total of 13 projects were submitted, of which three projects were already selected for the 2023/2024 Academic Year. These projects, which involve
On Thursday, May 25, 2023, at Villa Bonaparte, headquarters of the French Embassy to the Holy See, the de Lubac Prize 2023 was presented to the winners.
Alumnus Père Yann Le Bras, who completed his Doctorate in Canon Law in 2021 at our university, with a thesis – in cooperation with the University of Clermont-Ferrand – on La démission et la révocation par le pape des évêques français
On Tuesday, May 30, 2023, (4:15 p.m., Álvaro del Portillo Lecture Hall), in light of the publication of the monographic notebook titled "Creativity: artificial, animal and human intelligence" (1/2023), the Acta Philosophica Review – in collaboration with the School of Philosophy and the DISF Research Center – organized an afternoon conference entitled Creativity, Culture, Imagination: At the Heart of the Human.
Rev. Prof. Rafael A. Martínez
On Thursday, May 25, 2023 (at 5 p.m., in the Aula Benedict XVI), Harambee Africa International, in celebration of the annual World Africa Day, has organized an event entitled African Voices in the Spotlight: Exploring Current Events.
On Saturday, May 27 and Sunday, May 28, 2023 (at the Centro Convegni Bonus Pastor, located at Via Aurelia 208, Rome), the 14th Workshop of the Scuola Internazionale Superiore per la Ricerca Interdisciplinare (SISRI) will be held, entitled "Ends of Research and the Search for Meaning. Interdisciplinary Reflections on Freedom."
The event will begin Saturday with a lecture by prof. Stefano Oliva (DISF Research Center) entitled “Freedom and Truth: The Personal Character of Research.” In the afternoon, prof. Elena Colombetti (Extraordinary Professor of Applied Ethics in the School of Philosophy) will give a lecture entitled “The Need for
