On Thursday 9th December 2021 another JP2 Lecture — "Karol Wojtyła's Areopagus Meditations: Lessons for the 21st Century West" by prof. George Weigel — was held at the St. John Paul II Institute of Culture at the Angelicum in Rome. Prof. Weigel argued that European Catholicism had long been used by ecclesiastical establishment. Those days,...
On Friday, January 21st, another lecture of the Institute of Culture of St. John Paul II at the Angelicum in Rome was held, the fourth in this academic year. The lecture was entitled "John Paul II: exception or illusion?" and was delivered by Prof. Andrea Riccardi, Professor of Modern History at the University of La...
On Thursday 17th February 2022 another JP2 Lecture — "Virtue, Integralism and the Priority of the Social in Catholic Political Thought" by prof. John Milbank — was held at the St. John Paul II Instituet of Culture in Rome. For prof. Milbank, the fading of Christian sway caused a loss of solidarity, while the privatization...
On Thursday 17th March 2022 another JP2 Lecture — "Christianity and Culture: A Truly Christian Life Bears Witness to Christ" by prof. Carl A. Anderson — was held at the St. John Paul II Institute of Culture in Rome. Prof. Carl A. Anderson argued that we should face up to the attempts of both canceling...
On April 7, the seventh lecture within this year’s JP2 Lectures series was held at the Angelicum in Rome. Professor Ewa Thompson delivered the lecture entitled “Non-Germanic Central Europe – Can Christian Europe survive without it?” Dariusz Karłowicz, president of the Saint Nicholas Foundation and program director of the St. John Paul II Institute of...
On May 18, the eighth lecture within this year’s JP2 Lectures series was held at the Angelicum in Rome. The lecture titled "Reconsidering Vatican Ostpolitik: The Statecraft of a Saint" was delivered by the famous papal biographer prof. George Weigel on the day of the second anniversary of the establishment of the Institute of Culture...
On May 18, a performance of Karol Wojtyła's "Job" was given by students of the "JP2 Studies" program, directed by Jaroslaw Kilian. The event took place at the Church of St. Dominic and Sykstus at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, on the day of the second anniversary of the establishment of...
On June 9, at the Angelicum in Rome, a lecture by Professor Stanislaw Grygiel entitled: A person is reborn, a person is not reformed was held. Dariusz Karlowicz, president of the St. Nicholas Foundation and program director of the Cultural Institute of St. John Paul II in Rome at the Angelicum, introduced the audience gathered...
On Wednesday, October 19, the first JP2 Lecture in 2022/23 titled: “Non-Christian Europe – is it possible?” was given by prof. Joseph Weiler. Dariusz Karłowicz, president of the St. Nicholas Foundation and program director of the St. John Paul II Institute of Culture at the Angelicum in Rome introduced the audience to the issues of...
On November 16, the next “JP2 Lecture” in the 2022/23 academic year was given by prof. Vittorio Possenti at the Angelicum in Rome, titled: “The truth we owe to man is first and foremost the truth about himself.” Fr. Cezary Binkiewicz OP, director of the St. John Paul II Institute of Culture at the Angelicum,...
On Wednesday, November 30, 2022, another JP2 Lecture organized by the Angelicum’s St. John Paul II Institute of Culture was given by Professor Mirosława Grabowska (University of Warsaw/Public Opinion Research Center). The lecture was titled “Secularization in Europe: Theory and Reality”. Dariusz Karlowicz, president of the St. Nicholas Foundation and program director of the St....
On Wednesday, December 7 at the Angelicum in Rome, a special open lecture entitled: "To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II" was delivered by Professor George Weigel. The audience gathered in the hall and in front of computer screens was introduced to the subject by Fr. Cezary Binkiewicz OP, Director of the...
On Wednesday, December 21, 2022, the fifth JP2 Lecture in the 2022-23 academic year was given by Antoine Arjakovsky (Research Director at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris, president of the Association of Christian Philosophers). The lecture entitled “Religion and Politics, from Totalitarianism to Democracy - the Case of Ukraine” began at 4:30 p.m. in...
On Wednesday, January 18, 2023, the sixth “JP2 Lecture” in the 2022/23 academic year titled: “The Crisis of Europe in the Light of the Church’s Social Teaching,” was given by prof. Helen Alford OP. Fr. Cezary Binkiewicz OP, director of the St. John Paul II Institute of Culture at the Angelicum introduced the audience gathered...
On March 1, another JP2 Lecture in the 2022/23 academic year was held at the St. John Paul II Institute of Culture. The lecture, entitled "Reset or Revolution? Contemporary Problems of Political Stability and Some Ancient Solutions" was delivered by Dr. Dariusz Karlowicz, Program Director of the St. John Paul II Institute of Culture and...
An exhibition of contemporary paintings of the Divine Mercy Image was braught to Rome! The opening of the exhibition took place on 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟏𝟗 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝐚𝐭 𝟔.𝟑𝟎 𝐏𝐌 in 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐢 𝐝𝐢 𝐒𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐨 (Piazza di San Salvatore in Lauro, 15, 00186 Rome). The paintings were created as part of the “Let’s Paint Catholicism...
On Thursday, May 18, 2023, we invite you to the JP2 Lecture, which will be given by Rev. Franciszek Longchamps de Bérier, Professor of Law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The lecture entitled “Hominum causa: ‘All Law is Established for Men’s Sake’ and the Dispute on the Essence of Man” will begin at 4:30...
On 18 May, the 103rd anniversary of the birth of John Paul II, we cordially invite you to the premiere of Karol Wojtyła’s “Our God’s Brother”, directed by Jarosław Killian and performed by Angelicum students. “Our God’s Brother” is a play written by Karol Wojtyła in the years 1944-1950. The story depicts the life of the Polish insurgent,...
On October 20th at 4:30 PM Fr. Jarosław Kupczak OP gave a lecture entitled “Church and culture after the Second Vatican Council” inaugurating this years' JP2 Lectures series at the Angelicum.
How could we have access to the sacramentality of the mere things, to the sacramentality of the world ? The answer appears as the first and final condition to any attempt to achieve a sacramental poetics and, even higher, a sacramental liturgy, approaching God with respect to the divine and divinity, whatever we could concieve under...
We invite you to a conference about the Ulma family, beatified by Pope Francis on September 10th of this year, in their home village Markowa (Poland). The whole family of nine – the parents and seven children, including one unborn – was martyred on the morning of March 24th, 1944, during the war, for providing...
The lecture will explore John Paul II’s teaching on the priority of culture in the free and virtuous society of the future, as he outlined that notion in Centesimus Annus. This teaching will then be the prism through which to analyze today’s contemporary Western “culture wars” and the best means to engage those contests. George Weigel – American...
Twenty paintings depicting the Annunciation interpreted anew by contemporary painters will be presented for the first time in Rome on March 19, 2024. The vernissage will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Musei di San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome (Piazza di San Salvatore in Lauro, 15). The Annunciation paintings presented at the exhibition have been...
On 11 April, a conference commemorating the 25th anniversary of John Paul II's Letter to Artists will be held at the Angelicum. The conference discussion will focus on the past and present opportunities and challenges in the mutual relations between Christianity and culture, as well as on the meaning of beauty in Christianity. Among the...
