and the Faculty of Theology hold an annual public lecture in honour of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
2024
Proclaiming the Good News by a Church which 'Goes Forth'
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle (Dicastery for Evangelisation)
2023
The Mission of Young People in a Synodal Church
Sr Nathalie Becquart (General Secretariat of the Synod)
2022
Stories of a Belgian Jesuit Palliative Care Physician: Accompanying Persons requesting Euthanasia
Prof. Marc Desmet, SJ (Jesuit Province of the European Low Countries)
2021
Identity Reloaded: Philosophy, Religion and Politics Facing New Challenges
Prof. Dr Karlheinz Ruhstorfer (University of Freiburg)
2020: POSTPONED
2019
Making Patristics Pertinent: Theological Echoes and Anticipations from John Henry Newman's 1833 Mediterranean Tour
Rev. Prof. Joseph Carola (Pontifical Gregorian University)
2018
Humanae Vitae: The Long Way from Vatican II to Amoris Laetitia
Prof. Thomas Knieps (KU Leuven)
2017
Singing the Songs of Two Temples: An Introduction to the Psalms in their Ancient Settings
Prof. Susan Gillingham (University of Oxford)
2016
Laudato Si - Beyond Ecology: On Shoemakers, Climate Protection and the Need to Change Our Lives
Dr Michael Georg Kuhn (Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the EU)
2015
Thomas Aquinas, Yves Congar and Unity in Faith
Rev. Prof. William Henn OFMCap (Pontifical Gregorian University)
2014
Human Nature and the Transcendent
Prof. John Cottingham (University of Reading)
2013
Listening to Churchgoers: Who They Are and Why They Stay
Rev. Can. Prof. Leslie Francis (University of Warwick)
2012
Jesus on the Way to Galilee: The Movement of the Word in John 1-4
Rev. Prof. Johannes Beutler SJ (Pontifical Biblical Institute)
2011
Searching for Happiness
Prof. Sigrid Muller (University of Vienna)
2010
Reason in the Classic Experience and in St Thomas Aquinas
Rev. Prof. Thomas Norris (St Patrick's College, Maynooth)