New Issue: Humanum Review
"All You Who Labor: The Vocation to Work" introduces the 2017 annual theme of work. Read More »
Our Mission
A longtime philosopher-friend of Karol Wojtyla once said that Wojtyla had always been occupied with understanding the human person in terms of love. The mission of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute, in a profound sense, begins here, in this abiding conviction of the late Holy Father that love reveals the meaning of the person and, through the person, of all "flesh," the whole of creation (cf. Familiaris consortio, 11; Redemptor hominis, 10; Dominum et vivificantem, 50). Read More »
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News
New Issue: Humanum Review
Issue 4 in 2016's exploration of theme of Ecology is entitled Human Ecology: Body and Home. Read More »
New Faculty Book: Torn Asunder
Margaret Harper McCarthy, Assistant Professor of Theological Anthropology has recently published a new edited collection: Torn Asunder: Children, the Myth... Read More »
Upcoming Events
2017-18 Orientation
New and returning students for the 2017-18 academic year will gather with Institute faculty and staff for Orientation on Friday,... Read More »
Opening Mass
The 2017-18 Opening Mass will be celebrated in the Redemptor Hominis Church at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine... Read More »
Meaning and Purpose in Medicine
With Saint Mary's University of Minnesota and the Catholic Medical Association (WInona Guild), the John Paul II Institute will co-sponsor... Read More »