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ALPHONSIAN ACADEMYA Graduate Institute of Moral Theology

The registration fee includes admission to lectures, examinations,student ID card and access to the Academy library.For full time ordinary students registered for the biennium, the tui-tion fee also includes a subscription to the journal Studia Moralia.

Biennium for licentiateYearly registration• until 30/09/2010 e 1.400,00• from 01 to 04/10/2010 e 1.450,00*• after 04/10/2010 e 1.500,00

Biennium for doctorateOne registration only(valid for 2 years) e 1.600,00*

Biennium for diplomaYearly registration e 700,00

Registration per courseExtraordinary Students e 85,00Guest Students e 75,00

MODE OF PAYMENT

Payment of the registration fee should be made at the Office of theSecretary General of the Alphonsian Academy, by check, cash orfunds transfer to “Accademia Alfonsiana”, Banca Popolare di Son-drio, Agenzia 11 di Roma, IBAN: IT14C0569603200000005386X61SWIFT: POSO IT 22

Please indicate surname, the academic year, the amount being paidand whether it refers to the first or second instalment.

For late payments there is a penalty of e 25,00, except for the licentiate where the penalty is e 50,00.

Registrations will not be accepted after October 29, 2010, for thefirst semester, and after February 28, 2011, for the second semester.

* Tuition may be paid in 2 instalments:• One-half is to be paid by October 4, 2010• The balance is to be paid by February 4, 2011(Note there will be a e 10,00 fee added to the second instalment)

ACCADEMIA ALFONSIANAVia Merulana, 31 • 00185 Roma (Italia)

Tel. + 39 06 494901 • Fax + 39 06 4465887E-mail: [email protected]: http://www.alfonsiana.edu

20102011 •20112012

PONTIFICAL LATERAN UNIVERSITYALPHONSIAN ACADEMY

ACADEMIC YEARS

The Alphonsian Academy is a Graduate Institute of MoralTheology, founded in 1949 by the Redemptorists. Since

1960 it has been incorporated into the Faculty of Theology ofthe Pontifical Lateran University and offers specialized studyin moral theology.

Inspired by St. Alphonsus M. de Liguori, who strove to renewmoral theology in his time, and in harmony with the Magis-terium of the Church, as expressed especially in the SecondVatican Council, the Alphonsian Academy seeks the fullest hu-man and christian knowledge about humankind. Rooted al-ways in the salvific Mystery of Christ the Redeemer, the Acad-emy promotes the worth and meaning of human life by dis-cerning the norm of human behaviour in the individual, in thefamily, in civil society and in religious faith.

Over 4.650 students who have passed through the Academygive vital witness to the pastoral and doctrinal worth of theInstitute.

Lectures and seminars are usually held in Italian.

Secretariate Tel.: + 39 06 49490646Fax: + 39 06 4465887E-mail: [email protected] the web: http://www.alfonsiana.edu

Office hours: weekdays from 9.30 to 12.30 (Wednesday and Satur-day: closed), from September 13, 2010 through June 30, 2011.The Secretariate remains closed during Christmas and Easter Holi-days.

How to registerRegistrations may be made from September 13 to October 4, 2010. Allthe non-Italian students registering for the first time must pass a testin the Italian language (before the opening of the Academic Year)

Documents required for the licentiate• registration form (supplied by the Secretariate);• original, detailed and complete transcript of credits or certificate

for the bachelor or institutional course (philosophy and theology);• letter of introduction/permission by the proper ecclesiastical/reli-

gious superior;• if necessary, the document of extra-collegiality (issued by the Ro-

man Vicariate);• proof of proficiency in Latin, biblical Greek and a modern language;• 4 passport size photographs;• photocopy of passport;• photocopy of Italian residence permit.

Documents required for the doctorate• admission request form (supplied by the Secretariate);• original, detailed and complete transcript for the licentiate;• copy of the licentiate thesis;• letter of introduction/permission by the proper ecclesiastical/reli-

gious superior;• if necessary, the document of extra-collegiality (issued by the Ro-

man Vicariate);• proof of proficiency in Latin, biblical Greek and two modern lan-

guages;• 4 passport size photographs;• photocopy of passport;• photocopy of Italian residence permit.

The Alphonsian Academy requires a permanent stay in Rome of atleast one semester.

FOR DETAILED INFORMATION, PLEASE REFER TO THE ORDO BIENNIOACCADEMICO 2010-2012

INFORMATION PAYMENT2011•2012 Seminars First Semester 2011•2012 Seminars Second Semester

Patristic and Historical Part

Historical Section• Moral Content of Social and Religious Songs (A. Amarante)

Systematic Part

Fundamental Systematic Moral• Conscience in the Current Manuals of Moral Theology

(S. Majorano)• Universal Solidarity and Christian Fraternity (J. Mimeault )• The Teaching of Moral Theology: Goals and Didactics (V. Viva)

Special Systematic Moral• The Ethics of Life in St. Thomas (G. Del Missier )• Issues in Pediatric Bioethics (M. Faggioni )• Euthanasia: between Law and Ethics (M. McKeever )• Interreligious Marriage in the Contemporary World

(V. Tirimanna)• The Eucharist and Hope (R. Tremblay )• From Welfare State to Welfare Society (S. Viotti )

Anthropological Part

Systematic Anthropology• Ecumenical Perspectives in Theological Anthropology

(A. Fidalgo)

Empirical Anthropology• Current Paradigms and Scientific Principles of Moral Education

(S. Rehrauer )

Biblical Part

Old Testament• Co-responsibility and Personal Sin in the Message of the

Prophets of the Old Testament (G. Witaszek )

New Testament• Moral-theological Reading of chosen Gospel Texts

(A. De Mingo)• Specific Elements of the Petrine Moral Teaching and their

Relevance for Today (A. Wodka)


Historical section• The Theological Structure of the Tract De Coscientia

of St. Alphonsus (R. Gallagher )

Systematic Part

Fundamental Systematic Part• The Gift as Principle and Criterion of Moral Action (A. Gnada)• F. Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality (B. Hidber)• Grace in the Manuals of Theological Anthropology

(T. Kennedy )• Conscience and Social-political Discernment in Contemporary

Catechetics (S. Majorano) • Moral Theology and the Ecclesial Magisterium at the Service

of the People of God (J. Mimeault )• Ethics and Friendship (S. Zamboni )

Special Systematic Part• Family and Culture (N. Basunga)• Moral Theories and Bioethical Arguments (G. Del Missier )• Medically Assisted Procreation (E. Kowalski )• Pointers to Catholic Social Teaching in some Theologians

of the XV-XVI Century (S. Viotti )


Systematic Anthropology• The Structures of the Personal Universe: Mounier’s Personalism

(N. Cappelletto)

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2010•2011 Seminars First Semester 2010•2011 Seminars Second Semester

Biblical Part

Old Testament• “Collective” Sin and Individual Responsibility. Prophetic Ethics

(G. Witaszek )


Historical Section• Moral Catechesis in the 20th Century (A. Amarante)

Systematic Part

Fundamental Systematic Moral• The Ethics of Forgiveness in Paul Ricoeur’s Thought

as a Stimulus and Challenge towards a Deeper Understandingof Sacramental Pardon (B. Hidber )

• Testimony, an Essential Dimension of the Christian Life (J. Mimeault )

• The specificum of Christian Ethics. Debate, Content and Significance (R. Tremblay )

• The Common Good: Justification and Limits of the PoliticalCommunity and of Political Action (S. Viotti )

• Fundamental Moral Theology in the Recent Manuals (V. Viva)

Special Systematic Moral• Issues in Animal Bioethics (G. Del Missier )• Sexual Disorders (M. Faggioni )• Proportionality of Treatment in Intensive Therapy

(E. Kowalski )• Promoting a Culture of Life: Going Beyond Bio-medicine

(V. Tirimanna)


Empirical Anthropology• The Cultural Sources of Morality: The Moral Sources of Culture

(S. Rehrauer )

Biblical Part

Old Testament• A Sapiential Examination of Conscience (Jb 31) (G. Witaszek )

New Testament• Moral Exhortation in the Letter to the Hebrews (A. Wodka)


Historical section• The Social Doctrine of the Church. Historical Development

(A. Amarante)

Systematic Part

Fundamental Systematic Moral• Ethical Approach of St. Thomas in the Summa Theologiae.

Analysis of some Texts (N. Cappelletto)• The Theology of Conscience in The Law of Christ of B. Häring

(R. Gallagher )• Truth and Ethos of Human Love in the Light of the Theology

of the Body in John Paul II. Ethical Analysis of Catechesis(1979-1984) (A. Gnada)

• Morality in Manuals of Ecclesiology (T. Kennedy )• Formation of Conscience in some Ecclesial Movements:

Analysis of some Significant Proposals (S. Majorano)• From Eschatology to Protology. Consequences for

Anthropology and Moral Behavior (R. Tremblay )

Special Systematic Moral• Capacity and Incapacity for Marriage according to Canon Law

(S. Cannon)• Biotechnologies and Transhumanism (M. Faggioni )• The Moral Link between Natural Law and Human Rights

(M. McKeever )• Basics of Christian Ecology (S. Zamboni )


Systematic Anthropology• The Fundamental Value of Human Life (E. Kowalski )

Empirical Anthropology• The Problem of Violence: Psychological-Anthropological Study

(S. Rehrauer )

2011•2012 Courses First Semester 2011•2012 Courses Second Semester

Methodology• General and Specific Methodology in Moral Theology

(Á. Córdoba Chaves)

Biblical PartOld Testament• The Old Testament and Christian Morality (F. Lage Martínez)

New Testament• Pauline Moral Teaching – A Reading in Terms of Gratuity

(A. Wodka)

Patristic and Historical PartPatristic Section• Divine Providence and Moral Life in the Greek Tradition up

to Basil the Great (B. Petrà)

Historical Section• Conscience and Law in the XVII-XIX Centuries (A. Amarante)

Systematic Part Fundamental Systematic Moral• The Morality of Charity (M. Cozzoli )• The Problem of Evil (B. Hidber )• The Dignity and Role of Conscience (S. Majorano)• Baptism and Confirmation: Gift and Responsibility

(J. Mimeault )• Christ as the Foundation of Morals. Part I (R. Tremblay )• Introduction to Moral Theology (V. Viva)

Special Systematic Moral• Ethical Foundations in Islam (V. Cottini)• Young People and Risky Behaviour (G. Del Missier )• Bioethical Issues in Human Sexuality (M. Faggioni )• Human Sexuality in the Catholic Tradition (V. Tirimanna)• Difficult Democracy, Multiculturalism and Globalism

(S. Viotti )

Anthropological PartSystematic Anthropology• The Person and Otherness in a World Formed by and with

Others (A. Fidalgo)Empirical Anthropology• Hope as a Constitutive Dimension between Yearning

and Finding (C. Freni )• Responsibility: a Challenge and a Moral Requirement

in the World Today (S. Rehrauer )

Biblical Part

Old Testament• Marriage and Family in the Old Testament: the Human

Reality and the Mystery of Salvation (G. Witaszek )

New Testament• For Freedom Christ has made us Free (A. De Mingo)• The Moral Code of the Book of Revelation (A. Wodka)


Patristic Section• Particular Moral Issues in the Fathers of the Church (M. Skeb)

Historical Section• Catechesis and Moral Preaching in the Modern Age

(A. Amarante)• The Concept of Justice in St. Thomas: History and Influence

(M. McKeever )

Systematic Part

Fundamental Systematic Moral• Comparing Theories of Justice: Critical Analysis (R. Gallagher )• Essence of the Person and the Moral Vocation of the Human

Being (A. Gnada)• Morality and Theology: Principal Paradigms (T. Kennedy )• Christ as the Foundation of Morals. Part II (R. Tremblay )• The Natural Law (S. Zamboni )

Special Systematic Moral• The Family: Institution of Love (N. Basunga)• The Protection of Conjugal Indissolubility in a Church

“with two Lungs” (S. Cannon)• Ethics and Deontology in the Mass Media and Internet

(M. Carbajo Núñez)• Tecniques of Artificial Fertilization (E. Kowalski )• The Business as a Community of Persons (S. Viotti )


Systematic Antropology• Anthropology and Ethics: Structural Aspects of Moral

Behaviour (N. Cappelletto)• Anthropological Presuppositions of the Human Ethos

(C. Freni )

Empirical Anthropology• Moral Reasoning (S. Rehrauer )

2010•2011 Courses First Semester 2010•2011 Courses Second Semester

Methodology• General and Specific Methodology in Moral Theology

(Á. Córdoba Chaves)

Biblical PartOld Testament• The Law and the Prophets (F. Lage Martínez)• Creation and Covenant, Divine Gift and Human Response:

the Moral Appeal of the Old Testament (G. Witaszek )

Patristic and Historical PartPatristic Section• Remission of Sins in the Oriental Tradition (B. Petrà)

Historical Section• History of Morals in the Modern Age (XV-XVII Centuries)

(A. Amarante)

Systematic PartFundamental Systematic Moral• The Morality of Faith and Hope (M. Cozzoli )• The Sacrament of Penance (B. Hidber )• The Holy Spirit and Christian Life (S. Majorano)• The Ethical Profile of the Christian, as Member of Christ,

Priest, Prophet and King (J. Mimeault )• The Eucharist and the Christological Foundation of Morality

(R. Tremblay )• Problems of Method in Moral Theology (V. Viva)

Special Systematic Moral• Canon Law of Marriage. A Comparative Study of Select

Themes in the New Codes (CIC e CCEO) (S. Cannon)• AIDS: Paradigmatic Problem of Social Bioethics (G. Del Missier )• Bioethics I: General Bioethics and the Beginning of Life

(M. Faggioni )• War and Peace in the Christian Tradition (V. Tirimanna)• Civil Law: Convergence between Ethics, Custom and Consensus

(S. Viotti )

Anthropological PartSystematic Anthropology• Theological Anthropology (A. Fidalgo)• Between Futile Intensive Therapy and Euthanasia by

Omission: the Proportionality of Treatment (E. Kowalski )

Empirical Anthropology• Dimensions of Freedom. Possibilities and Limits of the

Existential Horizon of Homo viator (C. Freni )

Biblical Part

Old Testament• Job, the Anthropology of the Suffering Man: Rebel or Subject?

(G. Witaszek )

New Testament• The Moral Message of Jesus: Christian Ethics and the Gospels

(A. De Mingo)• Christian Moral Decisions according to the Fourth Gospel

(A. Wodka)


Patristic section• Some Aspects of Fundamental Ethics in Augustine of Hippo

(M. Skeb)

Historical Section• Conscience and its Development in the Understanding

of St. Alphonsus (S. Majorano)

Systematic Part

Fundamental Systematic Moral• Gift as the Source of Moral Obligation (A. Gnada)• Grace in Moral Theology (T. Kennedy )• The Ecclesial Character of Christian Morals (J. Mimeault )• Ethics and Revelation (S. Zamboni)

Special Systematic Moral• Moral Theology of the Family (N. Basunga)• Ethics and Communication (M. Carbajo Núñez)• Issues in Social Bioethics (G. Del Missier )• Bioethics II: Integrity and the End of Life (M. Faggioni )• At the Origins of Social Ethics: History, Faith, Argumentation

and Basic Concepts (R. Gallagher )• Real Socialism, Theoretical Socialism (M. McKeever )


Systematic Anthropology• Dimensions of Ethical Responsibility (N. Cappelletto)• The Human Person, Relationship and Love as the Structure

of Being (C. Freni )• Human Life: Between Quality, Sacredness and Dignity

(E. Kowalski )

Empirical Anthropology• Cognitive Processes of the Erroneous Conscience (S. Rehrauer )

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