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Community of Catholic Scholarship Join our academic mission to generate a culture whose members “see life in its deeper meaning, its beauty and its invitation to freedom and responsibility” (Evangelium vitae, 83). The mission of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute...
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Welcome! My name is Dr. John Bergsma and I am a Full Professor of Theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, in Steubenville, Ohio. I served as a Protestant pastor for four years before entering the Catholic Church in 2001 while pursuing a Ph.D. in...
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The Jesuits We are the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests and brothers founded half a millennium ago by the soldier-turned-mystic Ignatius Loyola. But most people call us “the Jesuits.” In the vision of our founder, we seek to “find God in all...
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About Us History In 1974 Father Joseph Fessio, SJ returned to the United States from then-West Germany, where he had completed his doctoral studies in theology under then-Professor Joseph Ratzinger (who would later become Pope Benedict XVI). Previously Father Fessio...