Antonianum Newsletter

Friar Paolo Martinelli, O.F.M.Cap., named Bishop

23/06/2014 - Friar Paolo Martinelli, O.F.M.Cap., director of the Franciscan Institute of Spirituality at the Pontifical University Antonianum has been named Auxiliary Bishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Milan by Pope Francis, giving it the title of bishop of Numidia Musti. Friar Paolo was born in Milan on October 22, 1958 and he took solemn vows as a Friar Minor capuchin, December 23, 1984. He was ordained to the ministerial priesthood, September 7, 1985....
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Collaboration with the Seraphicum

23/06/2014 - In the last months, there has been a clear intensification of contacts between the Pontifical University Antonianum and the Seraphicum Pontifical Theological Faculty, which is run by the Friars Minor Conventual, in order to promote a larger academic collaboration. It has been of special relevance th...
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Franciscan Studies Week in Peru

01/09/2014 - The Franciscan family of Perù and the Pontifical University Antonianum are organizing a Franciscan Studies Week in Lima, in Perù, to be held September 1-5 2014 for religious and lay men and women on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the proclamation di St. Francis as Patron of ecology. The ...
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Encounter and Symposium in Istanbul

18/09/2014 - Next September, the prefects and professors of the Institutes affiliated to the Pontifical University Antonianum will participate, in two important events that will take place in Istanbul: the Eleventh Encounter of the prefects and professors of affiliated Institutes and the Twelfth Islamic-Christian Symposium. Thus crowning off a three year study, which the affiliated Institutes have dedicated to Evangelization and dialogue....
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Vocation and Connection

22/09/2014 - The Franciscan Institute of Spirituality of the Pontifical University Antonianum is hosting a Conference entitled Vocation and Connection; Formation Challenges in the Digital Age from Monday September 22 to Wednesday September 24, in the Auditorium Antonianum. Starting with a vision open to the opportunities of digital communication the conference will deepen the anthropological challenges relative to the formative process and the construction of a consecrated identity. ...
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Medieval Franciscanism: History, Philosophy & Theology

06/10/2014 - The advanced Master's in Medieval Franciscanism: History, Philosophy and Theology is organized by the Graduate School of Medieval and Franciscan Studies of the Pontifical University Antonianum and the Department of Human Sciences of the Libera Università degli Studi Maria SS. Assunta...
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Franciscan Theological Thought

06/10/2014 - Beginning with the academic year 2014-2015 the Theology Faculty of the Pontifical University Antonianum will offer the possibility of attaining a License in dogmatic theology focusing on Franciscan theological thought. The program of study will offer academic formation in the heritage and tradition of the Franciscan school of thought....
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Artistic mediation in relationship to care

06/10/2014 - The Philosophy Faculty, in collaboration with the Nuova Associazione Europea per le Arti Terapie, is sponsoring a professional masters in Video, photography, theater and artistic mediation in relationship to care. The professional masters is achieved through a combination of onsite and distance...
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New Book on the Function of Desire in the Spiritual Life

15/06/2014 - Newly published: La función del deseo en la vida espiritual según Buenaventura de Bagnoregio, by Carlos Esteban Salto Solá, Edizioni Antonianum (2014) in the Series Studia Antoniana. The author deals with the theme of desire in the Christians journey of faith according to + info

Tribute for André Vauchez

20/06/2014 - The Istituto Luigi Sturzo hosted a gathering on Friday June 20, 2014 in tribute to Prof. André Vauchez, who recently received the Balzan Award for Medieval History. The award is «for his groundbreaking studies on medieval spirituality in Western Christianity and its central role in everyday life i...
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Newly published: Fedeltà e perseveranza vocazionale

20/06/2014 - Newly published: Fedeltà e perseveranza vocazionale in una cultura del provvisorio. Modelli di lettura e proposte formative, edited by Paolo Martinelli and Albert Schmucki, Edizioni Dehoniane, Bologna 2014. The book is a compilation of the acta from a st...
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