9th Installment of the Leonardo Legaspi Lecture Series

Hans Malgapu — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 05:47:08 +0000

The ��ɫ invites you to the 9th installment of the Leonardo Legaspi Lecture Series from July 18 to 19, 2023 at the George S.K. Ty Function Hall, Buenaventura G. Paredes, O.P. Building. The theme of this conference will be “Truth as Dialogue: Conversations on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Contemporary Questions on Truth”.

Day 1

Kicking off the plenary sessions, Prof. Fr. Mark Daniel Holtz, O.P., Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of Pontificia Università San Tommaso d’ Aquino, will lecture on “Plurium verorum plures veritates: Alethic Pluralism and the Plurality of Truth in Thomas Aquinas”. Meanwhile, Prof. Jovito Cariño, PhD of the UST Department of Philosophy will share his insights in his lecture entitled, “Tagpuan, Tapatan, Talaban: Si Santo Tomas de Aquino, Dayalogo at ang Kontemporanyong Paghahanap sa Katotohanan” (Encounter, Exchange, Engagement: St. Thomas Aquinas, Dialogue and the Contemporary Search for Truth).

Inst. Sir-Lien Hugh Tadeo, MA will serve as the moderator.

Day 2

Sr. Prof. Catherine Joseph Droste, O.P. of the Pontificia Università San Tommaso d’ Aquino will lecture on “Forming Conscience in a Contemporary World: Aquinas’s Teaching on the Gifts of Wisdom and Counsel”. Lastly, fr. Rodel E. Aligan, O.P., SThD, UST Graduate School Regent, will cap the plenary sessions with his lecture on “Relevance of St. Thomas Aquinas on Truth, Communication and Authenticity of Christian Life in the Digital Age”

Asst. Prof. Maila M. Blanza will be the day’s moderator.

The two-day conference is organized by the Ecclesiastical Faculties, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Institute of Religion, Graduate School, and the Center for Theology, Religious Studies and Ethics to celebrate the Triennium of St. Thomas Aquinas: the 700th anniversary of his canonization (2023), the 750th anniversary of his death (2024), and the 800th anniversary of his birth (2025).

Visit /aquinasconference/ for more details.

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Catholic University of Korea awards UST Sacred Theology degrees for the first time

Philippe Hernandez — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 10:57:49 +0000

On February 25, 2021, the Catholic University of Korea’s College of Theology awarded UST’s Bachelor of Sacred Theology degrees for the first time after the aggregation agreement, which allows an institute to award bachelor’s and licentiate degrees from an ecclesiastical faculty like UST’s, between the UST Faculty of Sacred Theology and the Catholic University of Korea was approved by the Congregation for Catholic Education on September 3, 2019.

Thirty-eight newly minted Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree holders were recognized during the occasion, with Sr. Kyoungah Lee leading the batch as Summa cum Laude.

Faculty of Sacred Theology Dean fr. Rodel E. Aligan, O.P., SThD pointed to the timing of the occasion, which coincides with the 200th birth anniversary of Saint Andrew Kim Taegon, the first native Catholic priest of Korea who sought refuge in the Philippines and learned under the tutelage of Dominicans in Bulacan. The Sacred Theology Dean encouraged the 38 graduates by saying, “These maybe the worst of times and yet also the best of times for you students. There will never be a time like this. As we honor and praise our own frontliners in this fight against COVID 19, you too will become frontliners for education as you minister to the Korean faithful. Let this defining moment be your shining moments to let the light of Christ continue to shine in Korea and in Asia as well.”

First reported in: The UST Ecclesiastical Faculties Facebook page ()

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Catholic University of Korea awards UST Sacred Theology degrees for the first time