September 10, 2019 (2:00pm - 3:00pm)
The 2019-2020 Opening Mass will be celebrated in the Redemptor Hominis Church at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine on September 10, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. Most Rev. Barry C. Knestout, Bishop of Richmond, will be the principal celebrant and homilist.
September 4, 2019 — December 4, 2019
This course will address questions at the intersection of medical technology and the human being.
August 23, 2019 (9:00am - 3:00pm)
New and returning students for the 2019-2010 academic year will gather with Institute faculty and staff for Orientation on Friday, August 23, at 9:00 a.m.
July 15, 2019 — July 19, 2019
Join us this summer for a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in John Paul II’s Theology of the Body! This short, one-week intensive course studies his “Wednesday catechesis”— through an in-depth examination of the text and a discussion of his scriptural, theological, and philosophical methodology. It shows how the dual unity of man and woman and their interpersonal communion, even in the body, image divine trinitarian life.
Please purchase a copy of the book before the course begins: Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body by John Paul II (Boston: Pauline Press, 2006. ISBN: 0819874213). Reading assignments will be distributed in advance to allow students to prepare for the course.
For more information, email: information@johnpaulii.edu or call 202.526.3799.
The class fee is $150.
April 29, 2019 (2:00pm - 4:00pm)
Ph.D. candidate Erik van Versendaal will defend his dissertation Letting Be: Ferdinand Ulrich on Freedom as the Fruitfulness of Being on Monday, April 29 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 214. His dissertation board includes David C. Schindler (director), David L. Schindler, and Fr. Antonio Lopez, from the Institute faculty, and Adrian Walker, Visiting Associate Professor of Theology at the Catholic University of America and editor of Communio: International Catholic Review.
This event is open to the public.
April 5, 2019 (3:30pm - 5:30pm)
Ph.D. candidate Rachel Coleman will defend her dissertation Matter as an Image of the Good: Ferdinand Ulrich’s Metaphysics of Creation on Friday, April 5 at 3:30 p.m. in Room 214. Her dissertation board includes David C. Schindler (director), Michael Hanby, and Fr. Antonio Lopez, from the Institute faculty, and William Desmond, Professor of Philosophy at Katholiecke Universiteit Leuven, Institute of Philosophy.
This event is open to the public.
April 5, 2019 — April 6, 2019
February 26, 2019 (9:15am - 11:45am)
Ph.D. candidate Carly Henderson will defend her dissertation Maternal Mediation and the Communio Personarum: John Paul II’s Theology of Mary on Tuesday, February 26, at 9:15 a.m.
January 24, 2019 (2:30pm - 5:00pm)
Ph.D. candidate Daniel Meola will defend his dissertation The Drama of Sexual Difference: A Catholic Critique of Judith Butler’s Theory of Gender as ‘Performativity’ on Thursday, January 24, at 2:30 p.m.
January 16, 2019 — April 17, 2019
This course studies John Paul II’s Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body — his “Wednesday catecheses”— through a reading of the text and a discussion of his scriptural, theological, and philosophical methodology.