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Thursday 13 April
Thursday 13 April
9.30am - Welcome & Introduction - Professor Rev. D. Vincent Twomey, doctoral student of Professor Joseph Ratzinger
9.50am - Session 1: Logos
Prof. Rev. Pablo Blanco Sarto, Profesor titular Facultad de Teología, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
“The Meaning of Logos as Used by Joseph Ratzinger”
Prof. Alejandro Sada, Research Professor at the Institute of Humanities of the Panamerican University, México
“The Philosophical Strength of Ratzinger’s Logocentrism”
11.30am - Break
12pm - Session 2: The Reformation & Luther
Dr Emil Anton, Catholic religion teacher at the English School of Helsinki. Finnish language collaborator of Vatican News
“Ratzinger and the Reformation”
12.50pm - Lunch
2pm - Session 3: Ecumenism
Dr Stephen G. Brown, Editor of The Ecumenical Review, the quarterly theological journal of the World Council of Churches (WCC), France
“The Ecumenical Theology of Joseph Ratzinger”
Rev Dr Tim Perry, Professor of Theology and Church Ministries at Providence Theological Seminary in Otterburne, Manitoba, Canada.
“Joseph Ratzinger: Evangelical Ecumenist”
3.40 - Break
4.10pm - Session 4: Priesthood
Prof. Michaela C. Hastetter, Catholic University ITI, Trumau, Austria.
“The Idea of a Priest in the Light of Joseph Ratzinger’s Interpretation of John 7:37-38”
6pm - Mass of Thanksgiving for Benedict XVI
Friday 14 April
Friday 14 April
9am - Session 5: Emerging Scholars
Emmet O’Regan, Loyola Institute, Trinity College Dublin
“The Eschatological Thought of Pope Benedict XVI”
Nikolaos Garagouni, University of the Angelicum, Rome
“Joseph Ratzinger’s unnoted new impulse to ecumenism: The omission of the Filioque from the Latin Creed in the declaration of ‘Domimis Iesus’”
10am - Break
10.15am - Session 6: Faith & the Church
Dr Shannon Wylie, University of Toronto
“Ratzinger’s Existential Ecclesiology and Interreligious Dialogue”
Rev Dr Martin Onuoha, Maryvale and Parish Priest, UK
“Marian Aspects of Joseph Ratzinger's Ecclesiology”
11.35am - Break
11.50am - Session 7: Democracy
Dr James M. Carr, author of the CUA Press published, Catholicism and Liberal Democracy. Forgotten Roots and Future Prospects (2023) (based in Ireland)
“Catholicism in the public discourse of modern liberal democracy”
12.40 - Lunch
2pm - Session 8: The Human Being
Dr Mary Frances McKenna, Fellow of the Centre for Marian Studies, UK (based in Ireland)
“Ratzinger on the Truly Human”
Dr Gaven Kerr, Lecturer in Philosophy, Pontifical University Maynooth, Ireland
“A Thomist Consideration of Ratzinger’s Theological Notion of Person”
3.20pm - Break
3.50pm - Session 9: Personalism
Dr Andrew Meszaros, Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Faculty of Theology, Maynooth Pontifical University Ireland
“Personalism and Doctrine in Joseph Ratzinger”
4.40pm - Close & Wrap Up
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