16.06.2021,
Sincere congratulations to Pater Dr. Ephräm Givi Lomidze, the ITI Lecturer of Church History and Director of STEP, on his successful public habilitation colloquium for the anticipated venia legendi in theology and history of the Christian East. It was held on June 15, 2021 at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of ...
07.06.2021,
On May 8, 2021 our beloved Professor Dagny Maria Hubertine Kjaergaard entered the house of our Heavenly Father. She passed away peacefully at the Barmherziger Brüder hospital in Vienna, concluding a life on earth that was marked by her deep and faithful service to the Church. As a consecrated virgin she dedicated her life fully to Christ and ...
11.05.2021,
„Sich vom Wort des Dichters treffen lassen …“ – dieser Leitsatz des Hermeneutikers Hans-Georg Gadamer steht über dem zweiten Band der Reihe „Lepanto-Almanach“: Der Almanach auf das Jahr 2021 rückt als thematischen Schwerpunkt das Verhältnis zwischen Philosophie, Theologie und Dichtkunst in den ...
06.04.2021,
Rev. Dr. Martin Mayerhofer, Associate Professor of Patristics and Church History and Associate Chaplain of the ITI, with a group of students embarked upon two pilgrimages in the days leading up to Holy Week and Easter. The first trip was from the ITI Campus to the Basilica Minor of Maria Dolorosa in Lorreto, Burgenland and was in honor of the ...
30.03.2021,
Katholische Hochschule ITI / ITI Catholic University Seit seiner Gründung am 1. Oktober 1996 durch den Hl. Papst Johannes Paul II. blieb das ITI seiner Gründungsmission stets treu. Gleichzeitig entwickelte sich aber im Laufe der letzten 25 Jahre ein immer stärkeres Bewusstsein dafür, die Reichweite zu erhöhen, um ...
24.03.2021,
Whilst always remaining faithful to the founding mission given to us by Pope St. John Paul II, the ITI over the past 25 years since its creation on October 1st, 1996, has always been keenly aware of the need to expand the reach of its mission in order to reach ever more young people, and thus the countries and local churches they will be serving ...
15.03.2021,
Zum zweiten Mal findet in Österreich der Vocation Music Award statt. Mit einem selbstgeschriebenen Lied zum Thema Berufung steht die Frage nach dem Sinn im Leben im Mittelpunkt. Zu gewinnen gibt es unter anderem Geldpreise, eine CD- und Musikvideo Produktion die Teilnahme bei einem Livekonzert. Wien-Salzburg, 23. Februar 2021. Ab ...
25.01.2021,
Congratulations to Rev. Dr. Martin Mayerhofer FSO, the ITI Associate Professor of Patristics and Church History, on his successful public habilitation colloquium for the anticipated Venia Legendi in Church History. It was held on December 7, 2020 at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna under the title: Die Exegese des ...
16.12.2020,
The fourth Austrian Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast took place in the Vienna Hofburg Palace on the feast of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The motto for the event was Hope in the Crisis. The online Advent prayer was organized and moderated by Dr. Gudrun Kugler, ITI graduate and current member of the Austrian Federal ...
09.11.2020,
On 17 October 2020, the community of the International Theological Institute was once again able to proudly participate in the annual March for Life in Vienna. It is an ever-growing event in which people of all ages and nationalities come together in public defense of life. In addition to many supportive leaders in the Austrian Pro-Life ...
02.11.2020,
Von Chaos, Fleischlichkeit und Unfreiheit: Die Trumauer Literaturtagung verweist angesichts der Pandemie auf das „Vertrauen in einen heilen Kern“ V O N S T E P H A N B A I E R Tief haben sich in unser aller Bewusstsein die Bilder von Sintflut und Arche eingegraben. Vielleicht, weil sie „etwas über den ...
29.10.2020,
During the past week or so there has been great unrest and confusion within the Church, and much discussion and even more confusion created in the international media, regarding comments our Holy Father purportedly made in a documentary called “Franceso”, and parts of which have been pre-released by its director. In our ...
20.10.2020,
1. Oktober: Dies Natalis und Eröffnung des akademischen Jahres Im Zeichen einer weltweiten Pandemie ein akademisches Jahr an einer Hochschule zu eröffnen, ist nicht nur eine organisatorische und akademische Herausforderung, sondern auch ein Zeichen des Lebens und der Freude. Unsere virtuelle Präsenz während des ...
19.10.2020,
Stift Heiligenkreuz, or the Abbey of the Holy Cross, is the oldest continuously-occupied Cistercian monastery in the world, having been founded in 1133 by St Leopold III of Austria. It is also home to the largest relic of the True Cross in Europe, north of the Alps. For centuries, the Abbey has been a spiritual center in the region, and the ITI is ...
Im Mai 2020 wurde das Erfolgsmodell des Chancellor’s Council 10 Jahre alt. Am Dienstag, dem 13. Oktober, konnte das mit einer Hl. Messe und einem Frühstück im Freien begangen werden. Das Chancellor’s Council ist ein Freundeskreis, um sich in einer zunehmend säkularen Gesellschaft gegenseitig zu bestärken, das ...
09.10.2020,
The opening ceremony of the 2020-2021 academic year at the International Theological Institute took place on October 1, the feast day of ITI’s Patroness, St. Therese the Little Flower. This year for the first time the ITI has built its study terms around three major liturgical feasts: Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost. Inspired by the ...
05.10.2020,
Interview with Ján Figel’, the former EU Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion or belief outside the EU For the second time since its establishment by the United Nations in 2019, the “International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief” was observed on 22 August. ...
02.10.2020,
Twenty-five years ago on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, His Eminence Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, O.P. took up his office as the Archbishop of Vienna. The International Theological Institute also celebrates an anniversary this fall, as it enters its twenty-fifth year of existence on the feast of St. Thérèse of ...
21.09.2020,
During the summer, the iconographical landscape of the ITI Byzantine Chapel - the location for ITI’s common prayers and divine liturgies – has been enriched with several additional Christological and Marian mysteries. The new icons complete the depictions of the main liturgical feasts in the chapel: the Entrance of the Blessed Virgin ...
17.08.2020,
24. Oktober 2020 Auch die 4. Literaturtagung widmet sich – wie bereits angekündigt – einem brandaktuellen Thema, das sich in diesem geheimnisvollen biblischen Bericht über die Flut spiegelt. Epidemien durchziehen die Menschheitsgeschichte. Deutungen sind oft schwierig, da es zu viele Unbekannte gibt. Wie können wir ...
10.08.2020,
The International Theological Institute and thirteen other institutions of higher education comprise the opportunities for postsecondary education in the State of Lower Austria. Annually, the Research and Education Association of Lower Austria (NÖ Forschungs- und Bildungsges.m.b.H.) collects and presents detailed information on these state ...
27.07.2020,
The Person and the World through the Eyes of ITI Students Every person has something to offer humanity – and this is especially true of our ITI students and graduates who are so richly blessed with talents. They use their gifts and skills to create and to philosophize. They perceive the world as beautiful and transmit its beauty to others ...
02.07.2020,
Neuerscheinung: Eins in der Taufe. Zur Frage von Taufe und Wiedertaufe im Orthodox-Katholischen Dialog Michaela C. Hastetter, ed. Givi Lomidze, ed. EOS, Editions Sank Ottilien, 2020 The link to order the book “Ein Herr, ein Glaube, eine Taufe“ schreib der Apostel Paulus an die Epheser – eine Trias, die auf das Bekenntnis an ...
18.06.2020,
Graduierung 2020 – ein historischer Moment Die Welt wird von einem Virus in Schach gehalten, das auch vor den Toren der Hochschule Trumau nicht haltmacht. Somit steht die Graduierung heuer im Zeichen der Weltkrise. Aber gerade diese bewegende Feier, die nur mit beschränkter Teilnehmerzahl stattfinden konnte, zeigte, welche Chancen und ...
16.06.2020,
The Pontifical Anthem and the National Anthem of Austria solemnly opened the curtain on the livestreamed ITI graduation ceremony 2020. Those graduands and students who had left Campus due to the current global corona crisis, could join the gathered ITI assembly virtually for a festive closing of the academic year in the Allan and Radwan Riley ...
10.06.2020,
Thiemo Klein PASTORALTHEOLOGIE IM WERK JOSEPH RATZINGERS / BENEDIKTS XVI. Grundlegungen und Entwicklungen, Schnell & Steiner, 2020 Diese Arbeit wurde als Dissertationsschrift unter der Betreuung der Frau Prof. Dr. Michaela C. Hastetter am Internationalen Theologischen Institut, Trumau festgelegt. Link to order the book Diese ...
15.04.2020,
In recent written and live streamed remarks to students, faculty and staff of the ITI, Rector Alting von Geusau remarked how fragile and very limited we are as human beings that an invisible, inaudible and little known microscopically small virus has brought Man’s world to an almost complete standstill and plunged it into widespread ...
20.03.2020,
Since the day that the suspension of classes was ordered by the Austrian Government on March 10th, the ITI administration has been assisting the students to return home to their families. We have also been working hard to develop an alternative teaching plan and to prepare the necessary logistical and technical details to make it work. Some ...
11.03.2020,
At the end of the March 10th Austrian Council of Ministers meeting the public announcement was made by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz – and later specified in writing by education minister Heinz Fassmann - that in order to slow the spread of the Coronavirus, as of Monday, March 16th all public and private universities are to suspend ...
09.03.2020,
„Sie sind ja nur mehr Fleisch. Die Flut!“ Samstag, 24. Oktober 2020 „Vielmehr ist „Fleisch“ – im Sprachgebrauch des Heiligen Paulus – Ausdruck der Absolutsetzung des Ichs, des Ichs, das alles sein will und alles für sich nehmen will. Aber gerade diese Absolutsetzung des Ichs ist ...
06.03.2020,
During the first weekend of the Great Lent, ITI students and faculty came together for a spiritual retreat. The purpose was to make time for silence and to delve deeper into the spirit of the Lenten season. The retreat was held on the campus grounds, with talks and small groups interspersed with time for spiritual direction and meditation. ...
02.03.2020,
The ITI would like to express sincere gratitude to the ITI Grand Chancellor, His Eminence Christoph Cardinal Schönborn for his recent book donation. Regular book contributions from his private library - Ex Libris Christoph Kardinal Schönborn – add significance and value to the ITI Library book collection. Most of the new books ...
19.02.2020,
Nihil obstat – Keine Einwände Das Sommersemester an der Hochschule Trumau beginnt mit einem für die Geschichte der Hochschule bedeutenden Ereignis. Nihil obstat und Ernennungs-Dekrete wurden seitens der Bildungskongregation des Vatikans und seitens des Großkanzlers an vier ordentliche Professoren und vier Hochschuldozenten ...
17.02.2020,
Michaela C. Hastetter Vergegenwärtigung der Vätertheologie. Joseph Ratzingers/Papst Benedikts XVI. Beitrag in der patristisch-ökumenischen Theologie im Nachgang zu Georgi Florowskis Neo-Patristischer Synthese (TO&OS 1), St. Ottilien ...
The volume „Liebes- und Heilsdynamiken in Ehe und Familie“ („Dynamics of Love and Salvation in Marriage and Family“) dates from two conferences, held at the ITI in 2017 and 2018. Due to this, the book has two parts: „Liebe ist ... frei, treu, bedingungslos, lebensspendend, missionarisch“ („Love is ...
13.02.2020,
The formal opening of the Spring Semester 2020 at the ITI was marked by a special festive event: after a long period of canonical investigations on the part of the Roman Curia, the Congregation for Catholic Education granted nihil obstat to a further eight ITI Faculty members. Nihil obstat is a canonical term which literally means “there is ...
12.02.2020,
On February 8th, Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau represented the ITI at the 445th Dies natalis of Leiden University in The Netherlands, of which he is also an alumnus. The University was founded in 1575 at the initiative of Prince William of Orange, in recognition of the courageous Leiden population who struggled successfully to overcome and ...
09.12.2019,
On December 3, 2019, the ITI community had the great honor of welcoming the Melkite Greek Patriarch of Antioch and all of the Orient, His Beatitude Youssef Absi, S. M. S. P. to our campus. The Primate of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church (MGCC), headquartered in Damascus, Syria, was accompanied on his trip to Austria by His Excellency Robert ...
03.12.2019,
Weltweit würden über 200 Millionen Christen gewaltsam für ihren Glauben verfolgt, berichtet das Päpstliche Hilfswerk „Kirche in Not“. Unverständlicherweise hört man darüber jedoch kaum etwas in den Medien. Der notwendige Aufschrei sowie die Solidarität für die verfolgten Christen bleiben ...
25.11.2019,
July 10 - August 1 OPENING SEMINAR The Opening Seminar offers an introduction to the summer course as a whole. Students will meet their professors, classmates, and coordinators; review the calendar of curricular and extra-curricular activities; learn all they need to know about life at Trumau-Vienna; etc. The Seminar will take place on ...
18.11.2019,
The largest religious media network in the world, Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), founded by Mother Angelica, PCPA, in the USA, began broadcasting in August 1981. Since then, EWTN programming has helped the Word of God to be proclaimed around the globe. Recently in England, EWTN established a new monthly magazine program Great Britain ...
12.11.2019,
During the Fall Semester break (October 26-31, 2019) ITI students, faculty and staff made the third pilgrimage to Lisieux, France in the history of the Institute. It is fitting for those who have, over the years, experienced the consistent, loving protection and ceaseless intercession of ITI’s Patroness Saint Thérèse of the ...
28.10.2019,
In Trumau wurde am 10. Oktober 2019 ein Kooperationsvertrag zwischen dem Internationalen Theologischen Institut (ITI) und dem neu gegründeten St. Ephräm (STEP) Wissenschaftliches Zentrum für Orient&Okzident-Studien, Wien, im Beisein von Rektor Prof. Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau und den Gründern des STEP, ...
23.10.2019,
On Saturday, October 12, 2019, ITI Students joined the annual Pro-Life March in Vienna. 4,000 like-minded young Catholics, singles and families with children, gathered in the historical center of Austria’s capital city to stand up for human dignity and defend the rights of the not-yet-born. The rally for life began with Holy Mass in St. ...
18.10.2019,
October 13, 2019 in Rome, Pope Francis declared John Henry Cardinal Newman a Saint. ITI graduate (2003), former ITI Librarian and now a Lay Dominican of the Irish Province, Monica Râpeanu STL (Romania) pays tribute to a Saint who has been her guide for many years. Her article titled John Henry Newman: Apostle of the ...
14.10.2019,
The Ad Fontes Interview Series has been launched this autumn. ITI Rector, Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau, turns to the primary sources: ITI graduates. Together with them, he undertakes a journey to discover the truth about the ITI. Using their personal experiences, the graduates reveal the beauty and uniqueness of the ITI. They ...
26.09.2019,
„Die Befragung der Wirklichkeit“ Die Hochschule Trumau setzt ihre Literaturtagungen im nächsten Frühjahr fort. Diese Tagungen sind aufgrund der dahinterliegenden Frage „Was ist Wirklichkeit“ von höchster Brisanz, leisten sie doch einen Beitrag zu einer Debatte, die noch viel zu wenig ins Bewusstsein ...
02.09.2019,
The 2019-20 academic year started with the traditional festive Matriculation Ceremony, where each new student enters his or her name in the registry as a sign of starting this important new phase in life. A large group of new students inscribed their names for the Studium Generale, the Bachelors in Liberal Arts, the Masters in Marriage and Family ...
14.06.2019,
8 June 2019 Commencement Ceremony As the academic procession from the parish church to the Schloss and Riley Hall wound its way solemnly through Trumau, the bright sun in the perfect blue sky shining brightly on the graduates, their fellow students, their professors, their families and their friends - one thought was probably on ...
12.06.2019,
„Nichts ist sicherer als der Glaube!“ Diese Graduierung stellte nicht nur den akademischen Höhepunkt für unsere Absolventen dar, sondern wurde für alle, die dabei waren, in der Person unseres hochverehrten Großkanzlers, Kardinal Christoph Schönborn, zu einem bewegenden Zeugnis des Glaubens. Zum Auftakt ...
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