On Thursday, December 9, we invite you to the next lecture of the 2021/22 series of “JP2 Lectures”, organized by the St. John Paul II Institute of Culture at the Angelicum, which will be given by Professor George Weigel (Ethics and Public Policy Centre, Washington D.C.). The lecture, titled “Karol Wojtyła's Areopagus Meditations: Lessons for the 21st Century West”, will start at 4.30 PM (CET) in Aula Minor at the Angelicum (address: Largo Angelicum, 1, 00184 Roma).

The lecture will explore Karol Wojtyła's understanding of "the West" as a civilization, the West's roots in biblical religion and Greek rationality, the future pope's convictions about the theotropic nature of the human person, and the relevance of those themes for the current crisis of civilizational morale in the western world.

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 18 honorary doctorate degrees, as well as the papal cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.

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Please note that due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, to take part in the lecture you are required to show a valid Green Pass or a negative test result for coronavirus. We also ask the participants to respect the sanitary procedures and cover their mouth and nose with a mask.

The lecture will also be broadcast live at: www.youtube.com/tDXqelo7yts

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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 in Rome, 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, Bishop Robert Barron (tbc.), 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. Video recordings of all the previous lectures are available here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNEaoRy0GFQtl_Wau2Qdd1jE5oT42Jd4o