Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas

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Basic data
Surname: Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas
(Latin Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis)
Seat: Casino di Pio IV
00120 Vatican City
President: Serge-Thomas Bonino
Secretary: Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
Pontifical Academy of Thomas Aquinas (seat in the Casino di Pio IV )

The Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas ( Italian Pontificia Accademia di San Tommaso d'Aquino ; abbreviation PAST ) is a Pontifical Academy based in the Vatican City .

history

The academy was founded on October 15, 1879 by Pope Leo XIII. , who confirmed the statutes of the academy with the breve of May 9, 1895. Pope Pius X confirmed the academy in an apostolic letter dated January 23, 1904, as did Pope Benedict XV. on December 31, 1914. In 1999 the academy was reorganized by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Letter Inter munera Academiarum .

task

The academy is dedicated to teaching and researching the philosophy and theology of Thomas Aquinas ( Thomism ) with the following focus:

  • Implementation of research, educational and publication projects of the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Exposure of Thomas Aquinas as a model of Christian teaching and as a scholar
  • Linking the holistic teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas in accordance with the Christian tradition and the doctrinal opinion of the Church, particularly taking into account the encyclicals Aeterni Patris and Fides et ratio .
  • Deriving the meyterium of health and its analogies on the basis of faith according to the ideas of Thomas Aquinas (Doctor Communis)
  • Promote the interaction between faith and reason and implement it in a dialogue between the sciences, philosophy and theology
  • Cooperate with the other academies in a friendly spirit promoting Christian philosophy and theology
  • Realize the excellence of Thomistic philosophy and theology
  • Stimulator for the international interaction between scientists of Thomism and their work
  • Stimulator for the role of Thomistic ideas in society
  • Promotion of education in Thomistic studies and ensuring the understanding of the ideas of Thomas Aquinas in the public
  • Promotion of research into the teaching and thinking of Thomas Aquinas

The academy organizes international Thomist congresses.

Management and organization

The first president of the academy was Cardinal Giuseppe Pecci (1879–1890). The French Dominican Serge-Thomas Bonino OP has been President of the Academy since November 2014 . His predecessors were the philosophy historian Abelardo Lobato Casado  OP (1925–2012), who headed the academy since the reform by Pope John Paul II in 1999, and the moral theologian Edward Kaczyński  OP (1937–2016), who led it from 2005 to In 2009, both Dominicans and Lluís Clavell Ortiz-Repiso (* 1941), a high-ranking Opus Dei functionary who was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009 . was appointed. The number of members is limited; Members over the age of 80 are socii emeriti . The scientific magazine Doctor Communis , founded by Antonio Piolanti , is published annually . The seat of the academy is the Casino di Pio IV in the Vatican.

Members

Ordinary members

Emeritus members

Members ad honorem

Corresponding members

Deceased members

See also

Web links

Commons : Pontifical Academy of Sciences  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Inter munera Academiarum" (PDF; 3.5 MB), accessed on July 28, 2010
  2. ↑ PAST Yearbook 2007: Objectives of the Academy, Page 9 (PDF; 6.1 MB), accessed on March 15, 2013 (English)
  3. ^ Obituary for Abelardo Lobato on the website of the Spanish Royal Academy of History, accessed October 2019.
  4. ^ Obituary for Edward Kaczyński on the academy's website, accessed October 2019.
  5. ^ Homosexual theologian excluded from the papal academy. In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 28, 2010, accessed on October 13, 2019.
  6. ↑ Sala Stampa della Santa Sede : Bollettino: Rinunce e nomine , November 6, 2014 , accessed on November 19, 2014.
  7. ↑ Notification on thomistica , accessed in October 2019.
  8. ↑ Publications , accessed on March 15, 2013 (English)
  9. ↑ Message from Ave Maria University , January 25, 2019, accessed February 2019.

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