December 15, 2015 (11:00am - 1:00pm)
S.T.D. candidate Fr. Tomasz Medrek will defend his dissertation Faith and Moral Reasoning: The Development of Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II's Ethical Theory in Light of Vatican II
November 13, 2015 — November 14, 2015
Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et spes, the Washington Session of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family will sponsor a conference on Nov. 13-14, 2015.
September 17, 2015 (6:00pm - 7:30pm)
Concluding the three-part series on marriage and family, Institute faculty members Dr. David Crawford and Dr. David L. Schindler
September 10, 2015 (6:00pm - 7:30pm)
Institute faculty members Dr. Margaret McCarthy and Dr. Michael Hanby will speak on the effects of artificial reproductive technologies and divorce on families
September 3, 2015 (6:00pm - 7:30pm)
Fr. Antonio López and Dr. Nicholas Healy will speak on the indissolubility of marriage in a panel entitled "Reconsidering Marriage" at the Catholic Information Center
May 11, 2015 (2:30pm - 4:00pm)
The Graduation Mass for the Class of 2015 will be celebrated at 2:30 p.m., on Monday, May 11, in the Crypt Church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
May 10, 2015 (7:30pm - 11:00pm)
The Institute's annual Graduation Ball will take place on Sunday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m., at St. Francis Hall (1340 Quincy Street NE, Washington, DC).
April 17, 2015
Medicine, by almost all accounts, faces an uncertain future. This symposium will discuss the profound questions surrounding the new possibilities not only for healing but also for so-called human "enhancement" by exploring the effect these have on our expectation of health and the practice of contemporary medicine.
April 17, 2015 — April 18, 2015
The Center for Cultural and Pastoral Research will host a symposium on April 17-18, 2015, under the title "Healing or Human Enhancement? The Future of Medicine."
April 16, 2015 (10:30am - 12:30pm)
Ph.D. candidate Carlos Gamundi will defend his dissertation The Nuptial and Liturgical Dimensions of the Body in the Theology of St. Paul: The Aptness of Sōma for Holiness, Love, and Worship on Thursday, April 16, at 10:30 a.m., in Room 214.
February 23, 2015 — February 26, 2015 (7:00pm - 8:30pm)
During the week of February 23, Prof. Giorgio Buccellati, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, will present the 2015 McGivney Lectures, "The Four Republics." Starting from his fifty years' expertise as a historian and field archaeologist of Ancient Near Eastern civilizations, his series of three lectures will discuss the origins and development of human community:
February 5, 2015 (4:00pm - 5:30pm)
Philosopher Phillip Sloan of the University of Notre Dame and theologian Simon Oliver of the University of Nottingham will join Michael Hanby to discuss and debate his latest book: No God, No Science? Theology, Cosmology, Biology.
January 14, 2015 — February 4, 2015 (6:30pm - 8:30pm)
The Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family announces the Spring 2015 Continuing Education course, "Called to Love: Theology of the Body."
January 12, 2015 — January 16, 2015 (9:30am - 3:30pm)
The 2015 Master Class Week lectures will take place January 12-16 in Room 006. Attendance is mandatory for all full-time M.T.S. and S.T.L. students and open to all other registered students.