For the past four years, the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Pontifical University of St Thomas (Angelicum) has run a programme called CREATE, an acronym for: Catholic social teaching Rome Exchange: Advanced Training Experience. The overall programme, which is aimed at young people from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE),...
Communitas is an annual, bilingual, inter-faculty conference that brings together experts from the various disciplines of the Pontifical University of St Thomas (Angelicum) to present, discuss and explore a current topic of great importance. In previous years, the topics addressed have included: ‘Preaching and the Arts’; ‘Biblical Law and Natural...
A good place to start in addressing the question of AI and the common good is with the question: What is AI for? Why are we developing AI and what should it do? In order to approach this question properly, we need to be clear about the common good. In...
The Faculty of Social Sciences at the PUST/Angelicum launched the project “Putting Catholic Social Teaching into Practice” in April 2024, with an opening conference under the title: “Can we Measure How Well We are Doing?”, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xcmeXZKR8&t=8815s The project aims to bring Catholic Social Teaching (CST) into dialogue with...
It is a great honour to be here; seeing you before me is a moving experience, reminding me of all that I have gained over the years through many encounters with Catholic universities around the world. So I’d like to begin with a world of thanks to you all, for...
“Where do we need to go with the topic of profit and poverty?” Helen Alford1 It is a great honour to be with you today, and it is also an opportunity for me. As you just heard, I was recently appointed President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and...
Over the last couple of years, talk about artificial intelligence taking over from us, and of the “rise of the robots”, has moved from science fic-tion into the news and comment pages of major newspapers. Therefore, although we have all been experiencing to a greater or lesser extent the emergence...
Well before the campaign on the EU referendum started in the UK, the Financial Times published a light-hearted article on the possible independence of London if the rest of the country voted for Brexit1 It suggested that the motorway encircling London, the M25, would be a natural border! The story...
As Leonardo Becchetti points out in his contribution to this number of OIKONOMIA, it is ten years since the European Commission published its white paper on Corporate Social Responsibility. It is also eight years since the last Italian presidency of the European Council where the promotion of CSR was one...
The future John Paul II finished his doctorate at the Angelicum just over 60 years ago. To mark this anniversary, the university held a series of events and special courses presenting the thought of John Paul II. The course on his social teaching involved 12 invited speakers from around the...
