We invite you to the eighth lecture of the 2021-22 “JP2 Lectures” series, which was held at the Angelicum on May 18, 2022 - the 102nd anniversary of Karol Wojtyła’s birth.
The lecture by Professor George Weigel (Ethics and Public Policy Centre, Washington D.C.) is titled “Reconsidering Vatican Ostpolitik: The Statecraft of a Saint”.
The lecture explores the theory behind the Vatican Ostpolitik of the 1960s and 1970s, the Ostpolitik’s effects on the Church in east central Europe and in the Vatican, and the distinctive statecraft of Pope John Paul II.
George Weigel - born 1951 in Baltimore, USA. American Catholic philosopher and theologian, author of over twenty books, among them the biography of St. John Paul II in two volumes: Witness to Hope and The End and the Beginning. He is Distinguished Senior Fellow and Chair of Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. George Weigel has received 19 honorary doctorate degrees, as well as the papal cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.
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The monthly open “JP2 Lectures” given by scholars from around the world are offered by the St. John Paul II Institute of Culture at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas - the Angelicum, the Roman Alma Mater of fr. Karol Wojtyła. The guest speakers in the 2021-22 "JP2 Lectures" series are: John, Lord Alderdice, Jean-Luc Marion, George Weigel, Andrea Riccardi, John Milbank, Carl A. Anderson, Ewa Thompson, and Stanisław Grygiel.
The lecturers in 2020-21 were: Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, John Finnis, Bp Rowan Williams, Marek A. Cichocki, John Cavadini, Francois Daguet O.P., Chantal Delsol, Rémi Brague, Renato Cristin, and Dariusz Gawin.
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17 май 2022
