Second Reflection: Creation – Wednesday, March 3
Reflection Presenter: Fr. Louis Caruana
After completing six years as dean of the faculty of philosophy, Fr. Louis Caruana enjoyed a semester sabbatical at Fordham University (not far from his birthplace!), before returning recently to Rome. He is a Maltese member of the Euro-Mediterranean Province who was ordained in 1991.
Mass: Second Sunday of Lent, February 28
Presiders: Fr. Nuno Gonçalves and Fr. Philipp Renczes
Rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University since 2016, Fr. Nuno Gonçalves, was director of the Portuguese bishops’ national office of the Cultural Heritage of the Church and dean of the philosophy faculty of the Portuguese Catholic University before being named Provincial of Portugal in 2005. In 2011 he came to Rome where he served as a professor, director of the department of cultural heritage of the Church, and dean of the faculty of history and the cultural heritage of the Church.
Dean of the faculty of theology since 2019, Fr. Philipp Renczes has been a member of the German Province of the Society of Jesus since 1983. A Patristic scholar, he is currently completing a book on the place of St. Augustine’s doctrine of grace in 20th century theology.