Guest Speaker:  Fr. John Corbett, O.P. Moral Theology B.A., Providence College S.T.B., S.T.L., Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception Ph.D., University of Fribourg, Switzerland Fr. Corbett grew up in Columbus, Ohio and came to know the Dominicans through family members in the Order, through St. Patrick's Parish, and through attending Providence College, from which he graduated in 1973 with a B.A. in Political Science. Fr. Corbett joined the Dominicans in the summer of 1974 and was ordained a priest on May 12th, 1980. Joining the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in the Fall of 1998, Fr. Corbett teaches in the area of fundamental moral theology and the theology of the virtues, covering material from the Prima Secundae and the Secundae Secundae in four sequential courses. He also offers seminars in Thomistic Action Theory, Contemporary Interpretations of Natural Law, as well as a seminar in the thought of Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre. He is interested in developing courses on the Ethics of Homicide, as well as on the Developmnent of Casuistry in the Catholic Church. Recent publications include "Pinckaers et le nouveau catechisme"  in the volume Renouveler toutes choses en Christ   eds. Michael S. Sherwin OP and Craig Steven Titus published by Academic Press Fribourg 2009. "The Functions of Paraclesis" was published in The Thomist, 73, 1 January 2009. "The Gifts of the Spirit According to Thomas Aquinas" will appear in the Josephinum Journal of Theology  August 2011.

Guest speaker: 

Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP Systematic Theology B.A., Brown University M.A., Oxford University S.T.L., Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception D.Phil., Theology, Oxford University   Thomas Joseph White, O.P., entered the Order of Preachers in 2003. His research and teaching have focused particularly on topics related to Thomistic metaphysics and Christology as well as Roman Catholic-Reformed ecumenical dialogue. He is the author of Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Modern Thomistic Natural Theology  (Sapientia Press, 2009), editor of The Analogy of Being: Invention of the Anti-Christ or Wisdom of God? (Eerdmans, 2011) and co-editor with James F. Keating of Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering (Eerdmans, 2009). He has published articles in several journals, including The Thomist, Nova et Vetera and Pro Ecclesia.

MARCH 29 - Third Home Lecture: Holy Week from the Perspective of Each of Us Today.

at the home of Steve and Kathy Tigani, 5418 Kirkwood Drive, Bethesda

Guest Speaker: Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P. Patristics and Ancient Languages B.A., Benedictine College M. Litt., University of St. Andrews (Scotland) M.Div./S.T.B., S.T.L., Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception Ph.D., University of Notre Dame Fr. Andrew Hofer came to the Pontifical Faculty in 2010. After growing up as the youngest of ten children on a farm in Kansas, he studied history, philosophy, and classics at Benedictine College.  He then went to St Andrews, Scotland for a Master of Letters in medieval history. He entered the Order of Preachers as a son of the Province of St. Joseph, and was ordained a priest in 2002.  After finishing his S.T.L. and serving as an associate pastor for a brief time, he was sent to Kenya as a missionary for two years. He taught at the Tangaza College of The Catholic University of Eastern Africa and other institutions in Nairobi.  He returned to the U.S. and completed the Ph.D. in theology at the University of Notre Dame, with the primary area of history of Christianity (specializing in patristic theology with additional studies in medieval theology) and the secondary area of systematic theology.  His research appears in such journals as Vigiliae Christianae, Augustinianum, New Blackfriars, Nova et Vetera, Downside Review, Pro Ecclesia, The Thomist, Communio, and Angelicum.