Maurice Ashley Agbaw Ebai 🇨🇲

S.T.D., Ph.D., a native of Cameroon and on leave from his home Diocese of Mamfe to serve in the Archdiocese of Boston. The thought of Benedict XVI is a specialty of Fr. Agbaw-Ebai. [read more…]

Rudy Albino de Assunção 🇧🇷

Degree in Philosophy from the University Center of Brusque (UNIFEBE, 2005), Master and PhD in Political Sociology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina. He completed his doctoral internship at the Universidad de Navarra. His areas of interest are the theology of Joseph Ratzinger. [read more…]

Pablo Blanco 🇪🇸

Has worked on aesthetics and hermeneutics of art, the relationship between faith and reason, ecumenism, and sacraments. He teaches at the Universidad de Navarra, Spain. Ratzinger Price 2023. [read more…]

Eduardo Charpenel 🇲🇽

He received his B.A. in Philosophy from the Universidad Panamericana, and his B.A. in Modern English Literature and M.A. in Philosophy from the UNAM. He received his PhD magna cum laude from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. He has also been visiting professor and visiting scholar at his alma mater in Germany. He has specialized in ancient philosophy, German idealism, and selected topics in ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophy of religion and aesthetics. [read more…]

Davide De Caprio 🇫🇷

He is currently a research associate in Philosophy at Université de Strasbourg. He is the author of a monograph Théologie et philosophie dans la pensée de Joseph Ratzinger/Benoît XVI (2022) and has edited a proceeding book Joseph Ratzinger-Benoît XVI et la culture française (2022).  [read more…]

Mariano Crespo 🇪🇸

Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad de Navarra. He has taught at the Internationale Akademie für Philosophie of the Principality of Liechtenstein and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and has been Visiting Scholar at the Phenomenology Research Center of the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (USA) (2016) and at the Center for Subjectivity Research of the Københavns Universitet (2018). [read more…]

Emery de Gáal 🇺🇸 🇭🇺

Chairperson and Professor in the Departments of Dogmatic Theology and Pre-Theology. Ph.D. in Systematic Theology, Duquesne University. Associate Pastor, Instructor, Member of Catholic-Protestant Ecumenical Dialogue in Nuremberg, Germany, Author of The Art of Equanimity: A Study on the Theological Hermeneutics of Saint Anselm of Canterbury and The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI [read more…]

Euclides Eslava 🇨🇴

Doctor of Philosophy from the Universidad de Navarra (Spain), professor and Director of the Master of Theology Program at the University of La Sabana (Colombia). [read more…]

María-Elena García-Peláez Cruz 🇲🇽

She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from UP. Her Master’s thesis was awarded the Norman Sverdlin prize. She received her PhD in Philosophy from UNAM. She was Director of the Faculty of Philosophy at UP. She is a full professor of History of Ancient Philosophy. She has been co-director of SWIP-Analytic, Mexico. She has collaborated in several research projects and has published in books and journals. [read more…]

Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz 🇩🇪

She studied philosophy, German studies and political science in Munich and Heidelberg and received her doctorate under Ernesto Grassi. She habilitated on Italian Renaissance philosophy. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Philosophical-Theological University of Vallendar. And is involved in the forum “Women in ministries and offices in the church” of the Synodal Path. [read more…]

María Esther Gómez de Pedro 🇪🇸 🇨🇱

She has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona. Lecturer in Philosophy and Social Doctrine of the Church at San Pablo CEU University. Associate Professor at the Universidad de Santo Tomás. She is also National Director of Formation and Identity of the Santo Tomás institutions. She is a member of the New Circle of Disciples of Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI. She is Executive Director of the Catholic Congresses and Public Life in Chile, held in Chile since 2005. She has several publications such as Fundamentación tomista de la Ética Profesional, Libertad en Ratzinger: riesgo y tarea. [read more…]

Michaela C. Hastetter 🇩🇪 

PD is ordinary professor for pastoral theology and religious pedagogy at the Katholische Hochschule ITI, Trumau, Austria, extraordinary professor for pastoral theology and homiletics at the Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany and vice-rector and program-head at the Scientific Center St. Ephrem for theological studies of East and West (STEP). [read more…]

Marcela Jiménez 🇪🇸

She holds a PhD in Law and Society. D. thesis entitled The thought of Joseph Ratzinger in the light of the Regensburg Speech: Die Horizonte der Vernunft ausweiten. She holds a postgraduate degree in Philosophy, Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso. He also holds a Master’s degree in Religious Sciences. Degree in Economics and Business Studies, UNED. And a Master’s Degree in Economic-Financial Management, CEF. [read more…]

Matthew Levering 🇺🇸

B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.T.S., Duke University; Ph.D., Boston College. Currently at work on a multi-volume (quasi-)dogmatics, whose first five volumes have appeared (most recently Engaging the Doctrine of Israel). Director of the Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine; past president of the Academy of Catholic Theology; and longtime member of Evangelicals and Catholics Together. [read more…]

Julián López Amozurrutia  🇲🇽

D. in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University. Graduate in Theology from the Higher Institute of Ecclesiastical Studies. Academic at the Universidad Pontificia de México and the Universidad Católica Lumen Gentium. He was Rector of the Conciliar Seminary of Mexico (2007-2014) and Director General of the Higher Institute of Ecclesiastical Studies (2003-2007). Founding President of the Mexican Academy of Theology. [read more…]

Mary Frances McKenna 🇮🇪

PhD, is a Fellow at the Centre for Marian Studies, UK. She hold a PhD in Humanities in Theology (2012) from All Hallows College, Dublin City University, Ireland, and a MA (1996) and a BA (1994) in History from University College Dublin, Ireland. Dr McKenna’s research interests focus on Mary in Christian faith and theology, and the thought of Joseph Ratzinger. Dr McKenna’s book Innovation within Tradition. Joseph Ratzinger and Reading the Women of Scripture was published by Fortress press in 2015. [read more…]

Stephan Kampowski 🇩🇪

He is Full Professor of Philosophical Anthropology at the Pontifical Theological John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences in Rome. He has been teaching there and at its predecessor institute in various capacities since 2005, the year in which he defended his doctoral dissertation, which was eventually published by Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, under the title: Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning. The Action Theory and Moral Thought of Hannah Arendt in the Light of Her Dissertation on Saint Augustine. [read more…]

Jacob Phillips 🇬🇧

“Professor of Systematic Theology at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK. He translated Benedict XVI’s Last Testament into English, and published numerous papers on the theology of Joseph Ratzinger. He has also authored monographs on St John Henry Newman and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the book Obedience is Freedom. He writes across various areas of systematic theology, with a particular interest in theologies of culture and the German intellectual tradition, and themes like obedience, conscience, and human subjectivity in Christ.” [read more…]

Tracey Rowland 🇦🇺

Theologian and professor at the University of Notre Dame Australia. She was appointed to Pope Francis’ International Theological Commission in 2014 and in 2020 became the first Australian to be awarded the Ratzinger Prize for theology. [read more…]

Alejandro Sada 🇲🇽

He received his PhD in Philosophy from the Universidad de Navarra. He is a Research Professor at the UP, where he has taught various undergraduate and postgraduate courses. He has published: Asentimiento y certeza en el pensamiento de John Henry Newman. Una defensa de la creencia religiosa and Sentido y verdad. Hacia una renovación de la filosofía desde el pensamiento de Joseph Ratzinger. He is interested in the relationship between faith and reason, and in the metaphysical and anthropological implications of the Christian faith. He has specialised in the study of the thought of John Henry Newman and Joseph Ratzinger. [read more…]

Michael Dominic Taylor 🇺🇸

Teaching Fellow and Dean of Students at the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts. He holds degrees Biology and Environmental Studies, Philosophy, and Bioethics. He earned his doctorate in Philosophy in 2019. He is the author of The Foundations of Nature: Metaphysics of Gift for an Integral Ecological Ethic (Cascade, 2020), which, in 2021, was a recipient of the Expanded Reason Award given by the Joseph Ratzinger Foundation (the Vatican) and the Francisco de Vitoria University (Madrid). [read more…]

Donald Wallenfang 🇺🇸

PhD in Systematic Theology. Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Sacred Heart Major Seminary. Specializes in Catholic theology and philosophy, Carmelite spirituality, phenomenology, and metaphysics. Also hosts two podcasts as part of his online apostolate: The Catholic Fragments Podcast, where he features expert commentary on Catholic excerpts of Catholic theological tradition, and The Shoeless Podcast, co-hosted with his wife, Megan, where they offer candid discussion of marriage, family life, and Catholic spirituality. [read more…]

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