28.09.2023,
Neuer Rektor an der ITI: Bernhard Dolna im Interview. Erkenntnisse aus fünf Jahrzehnten Theologie. Tauchen Sie ein in eine Welt der Weisheit, Tradition und zeitgemäßen Fragen an der Katholischen Hochschule Trumau. Seit 1. August ist Bernhard Dolna Rektor der Katholischen Hochschule Trumau (ITI). Der 69-Jährige spricht ...
26.09.2023,
This summer, Dr. Simon Maria Kopf, Associate Professor of Fundamental Theology at ITI, was one of four academics to receive the VI edition of the Expanded Reason Award, hosted by The Expanded Reason Institute, with his latest work “Reframing Providence: New Perspectives from Aquinas on the Divine Action Debate.” He was nominated in the ...
21.09.2023,
Simon Maria Kopf, Associate Professor of Fundamental Theology at the ITI, has been appointed a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, and the Aquinas Institute, an organization within Blackfriars. He was appointed after the start of his research project, entitled ‘Alternative Concepts of God and the Problem of Unconceived ...
13.09.2023,
The official transferal ceremony of the office of rector at ITI Catholic University opened with a prayer in the ITI Byzantine Chapel on the Feast of the Procession of the Honorable and Life-Giving Cross according to the Byzantine Rite on August 1. The outgoing Rector Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau and the incoming Rector DDr. Bernhard Dolna ...
29.06.2023,
Thirty-nine young people from all over the world have successfully completed the academic requirements of ITI Catholic University to earn Studium Generale certificates and academic diplomas for the Bachelor of Liberal Arts, Master of Sacred Theology, Master of Studies on Marriage and the Family, Doctorate in Sacred Theology, and Master of Arts in ...
28.06.2023,
Simon Maria Kopf and Ignacio Silva guest edit a special issue of Religions Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue explores how Thomas Aquinas and the Thomists from different ages related their thought to the natural and cognitive sciences, both from a systematic and an historical perspective. What can contemporary theology, ...
23.06.2023,
PD Dr. habil. Michaela C. Hastetter delivered a lecture entitled “The Understanding of the Unity of Europe according to Ratzinger's Ecumenical Model: A View of the Whole” at the International Conference on Pope Benedict XVI's Social Criticism and Vision for Europe "Self-Identity and Life-Giving Source”. The conference was held by ...
22.06.2023,
In accordance with article 6 par. 1 of the ITI’s Statutes, after more than nine years of service to the ITI as President and Rector, Prof. Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau, JD., LL.M will retire from his duties on July 31, 2023. Dr. Geusau expressed deep gratitude to God for placing him in the position of rector, as well as gratitude to ...
Prof. Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau gave a lecture entitled “The Listening Heart as a Principle of Legislation: Benedict XVI on Democracy and Politics” at the International Conference on Pope Benedict XVI's Social Criticism and Vision for Europe "Self-Identity and Life-Giving Source”. The conference was held by the Christian ...
21.06.2023,
PD. Dr. habil. Ephrem Givi Lomidze, Lecturer of Ancient Church History and Patristics at the ITI Catholic University, and Head of St. Ephrem Scientific Center for Orient&Occident-Studies (STEP), has been awarded the ‘Prize for the Promotion of Scientific Works of the Society for the Study of the Christian East’ (Die Gesellschaft ...
12.06.2023,
Dr. Simon Maria Kopf, Associate Professor of Fundamental Theology, hat kürzlich zwei Sendungen auf Radio Maria mitgestaltet. Am 24. März 2023 sprach Dr. Kopf live über das Thema „Kann der Mensch Gott erkennen?“ Dr. Kopf führte die Unterscheidung zwischen Erkennbarkeit und Unbegreiflichkeit Gottes ein und ...
22.05.2023,
Am 6. Mai verfolgte die ganze Welt die Krönung von Charles III. Die ganze Welt? Nein! Ein paar Unbeugsame fanden sich in Trumau zusammen, der „schönsten Stadt Österreichs“, wie der anwesende Bürgermeister Andreas Kollross versicherte. Allerdings war auch dieser nur Gast, denn die Veranstaltung fand nicht im Rathaus, ...
15.05.2023,
Kommentar Dr. Andreas Salcher: https://www.dersonntag.at/artikel/aufbruch-zur-schule-des-21-jahrhunderts/ Der Sonntag www.dersonntag.at
09.05.2023,
Education at the Crossroads – this was the topic of the International Bilingual Education Summit, which was held at the ITI on May 5-6. It was a fitting way to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of ITI’s existence, the celebration of which was postponed from 2021 until today due to the Corona crisis. “Education is our ...
06.05.2023,
Internationaler zweisprachiger Bildungsgipfel an der Hochschule ITI 5. und 6. Mai 2023 Eine Standortbestimmung Das ganze Programm mit allen inhaltlichen und organisatorischen Details: Klicken Sie hier Bildung geht jeden an: Ist der Kampf bereits verloren? Bildung, ideologisch heiß umkämpft! Aber sehen wir auch wirklich, was auf dem ...
05.05.2023,
International Bilingual Education Summit at ITI Catholic University May 5 and 6, 2023 An Assessment of the Situation For the full program with all the content and organizational details: click here. In such crisis-ridden times, what better topic for a university to consider than the future of the next generation? This is especially so because ...
03.05.2023,
The ITI were delighted to welcome the Napa Institute for lunch on Thursday, April 27 during their grand tour of Eastern and Central Europe. The ITI President Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau welcomed the group of around thirty members led by Mr. Tim Busch, and after a tour of the Byzantine Chapel by Fr. Juraj Terek, they were invited to a ...
24.04.2023,
The editor-in-chief of the popular Magnificat magazine says that a faithful Catholic college is where he “began to develop daily Catholic habits of prayer and a whole Catholic outlook on the world.” Now Fr. Sebastian White, O.P., helps Catholics across the globe strengthen their prayer lives through the ...
22.03.2023,
It was a great joy to welcome ITI graduate and former ITI professor Dr. John Mortensen back to our campus. On March 2, he gave a Thursday night lecture under the title “Is Study Conducive to Eternal Life?” He has been working to understand the relationship between studying and eternal life for the past thirty years. He consolidated his ...
21.03.2023,
On 19 January 2023, ITI welcomed Dr. Andrew Kaethler, Academic Dean and Assistant Professor of Theology at Catholic Pacific College in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Kaethler gave a lecture entitled Eschatology and Temporality in the Thoughts of Alexander Schmemann and Joseph Ratzinger as part of the ITI’s Thursday Night Lecture ...
09.03.2023,
Simon Maria Kopf, Associate Professor of Fundamental Theology at the ITI, launches a new, two-year research project entitled “Alternative Concepts of God and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives.” The project is funded by the SET Foundations with a generous grant of $25,000. Dr. Kopf will organise an international workshop in the ...
20.02.2023,
Among the books that Fr. Donald H. Calloway, MIC has written about Our Lady, Marian Gems: Daily Wisdom on Our Lady (2014) stands out: as a collection of short meditations on Our Lady by various saints, blesseds, and popes arranged to cover the entire year, it makes for an easy and nourishing read for anyone interested in deepening one's devotion ...
23.01.2023,
On January 2-6, 2023, ITI student Karolina Kubisova and a few of our graduates among whom Theresia Kramer, who is a FOCUS missionary at the University of Passau, participated in SEEK, the largest Catholic conference of its kind organized by FOCUS (the Fellowship of Catholic University Students) in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Mary Healy, one of the ...
19.01.2023, Catholic News
Oxford University Press releases a new book Reframing Providence. New Perspectives from Aquinas on the Divine Action Debate by Dr. Simon Maria Kopf, Associate Professor of Fundamental Theology at the ITI. The doctrine of providence, which states that God guides his creation, has been widely conceived in action terms in recent theological ...
12.01.2023,
In cooperation with the European Association of Free Faculties, the Catholic University of Avila, the Institute of Comparative Philosophy, the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies, and the Catholic Institute of Rennes, the Katholische Hochschule ITI (ITI Catholic University) co-organized the International Conference on Humanism and Ecological ...
09.01.2023, Catholic News
Überaus dankbar dürfen wir als Katholische Hochschule ITI von Joseph Ratzinger / Papst em. Benedikt XVI. Abschied nehmen. Seine Theologie fußte auf der Heiligen Schrift und den Vätern, allen voran der Hl. Augustinus und der Hl. Bonaventura. Er hatte die Quellen im Original studiert und ins Heute "übersetzt", in der ...
09.12.2022, Catholic News
Mirabile Dictu, the International Catholic Film Festival founded by Liana Marabini in 2010 under the auspices of the Pontifical Council for Culture and Education, gives an award each year to an organization that demonstrates a special commitment to evangelization. Mirabile Dictu (Spoken Miracles) is an exquisite annual film festival and ...
07.12.2022, Catholic News
Mirabile Dictu, das von Liana Marabini 2010 gegründete Internationale Katholische Filmfestival unter der Schirmherrschaft des Päpstlichen Rates für Kultur und Bildung, verleiht jedes Jahr einer Organisation, die sich besonders um Evangelisation bemüht, einen Preis. Mirabile Dictu (Gesprochene Wunder) ist ein exquisites, ...
04.11.2022, Catholic News
On 8 October 2022, ITI President and Rector Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau addressed the Ugandan State Leaders in Entebbe. On the day before Uganda’s Sixtieth Independence Day, the President of the Republic Mr. Yoweni Kguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa, the First Lady,Mrs. Janet Museveni (who also currently holds the office of Minister for ...
02.11.2022, Catholic News
It was a great joy and honor to welcome the President of the Republic of Hungary, Her Excellency Katalin Novak, to our University. On Thursday night, October 27, she spoke about the family and shared her experience of previous service in the position of Minister for Family Affairs, which she had held before being elected president. “The ...
29.10.2022, Catholic News
The Circolo San Tommaso d’Aquino has announced that Simon Maria Kopf’s new book, Reframing Providence: New Perspectives from Aquinas on the Divine Action Debate, to be published by Oxford University Press in January 2023, has been selected as the winner of the 11th Edition of the Veritas et Amor contest for the promotion of Thomas ...
18.10.2022, Catholic News
The ITI is happy to hereby invite you to a special 2-days academic conference – October 28-29, 2022 – dedicated to St. Irenaeus of Lyon. This year Pope Francisdeclared Saint Irenaeus a doctor of the Church. The ITI sees this step of the Holy Father as a task and wants to contribute to a fuller awareness of the relevance of ...
14.10.2022, Catholic News
A new academic year at the ITI was solemnly opened with the Matriculation Ceremony at Allan and Radwan Riley Hall. As is tradition at the ITI at the beginning of an academic year, all the faculty members proclaimed the Oath of Fidelity. They promised to always remain faithful to the authentic Magisterium of the Catholic Church and the Roman ...
12.10.2022, Catholic News
Msgr. Kevin Randall, the Nuntiatur Counsellor in Austria, presided over holy Mass at the solemn inauguration of the 2022-2023 academic year at the ITI. He began Mass by passing on words of blessings on behalf of His Excellency, Archbishop Dr. Pedro Lopez Quintana, the Apostolic Nuncio to Austria. “How will a well-rounded, Catholic liberal ...
11.10.2022, Catholic News
Neuerscheinungen aus dem Lepanto Verlag: www.lepanto-verlag.de Der Lepanto Verlag, der zu unserer Freude nächstes Jahr die ITI-Literaturtagungen publizieren wird, bietet mit seinem Herbstprogramm Erlesenes aus Philosophie, Theologie und Kirche, Literatur und Sprache. Hervorgehoben, zwei Publikationen, die aktueller nicht sein ...
02.10.2022, Catholic News
St Thérèse and the Contemplative Heart of the Intellectual Life Yesterday we already anticipated the Feast of St Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face. And today we celebrate again fittingly giving our patroness a double Feast. From the very beginning of the ITI, her holy countenance has watched ...
22.08.2022, Catholic News
On Friday, August 19th, during a special meeting with faculty and staff, Prof. Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau officially announced that in accordance with article 6 par. 1 of the Statutes of ITI Catholic University he will retire from his duties as Rector at the end of the 2022-2023 academic year. In accordance with Canon Law, the statutes ...
05.07.2022, Catholic News
Recently, Dr. Simon Maria Kopf, our newly appointed Associate Professor of Fundamental Theology, participated in the 2022 Summer Session of the SET Foundations (Building Foundations in Science-Engaged Theology: Insights from Philosophy of Science) in San Diego, USA. During the week-long sponsored session, theologians and philosophers of religion ...
Ave, Crux vera, spes unica! “We bow to Your Cross, O Lord, and we praise Your holy Resurrection!” These words from the Byzantine Divine Liturgy would be an accurate caption for an event that took place on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul in Trumau: the return of a restored crucifix to its proper place. The crucifix hangs ...
20.06.2022, Catholic News
This year, as is traditional, the ITI Commencement Exercises were crowned with the Rector’s Address - delivered above all to our dear graduates. In his address, Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau reflected on the question of freedom. He desires for our graduates to take with them a balanced understanding of freedom and thus accurate practice ...
18.06.2022, Catholic News
Ms. Dora Goda, a graduate of our five-year Master of Sacred Theology program who came to the ITI from Hungary right after high school, was chosen by her fellow graduates to deliver a speech at the commencement ceremony on behalf of the graduating class of 2022. Having studied the original texts of the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, ...
17.06.2022, Catholic News
On 11 June 2022, the Commencement Ceremony took place at the ITI. This year twenty three graduating students fulfilled the academic requirements of the ITI study programs and had one of the following degrees conferred on them: Licentiate in Sacred Theology, Master of Sacred Theology, Master of Studies on Marriage and the Family, and Bachelor in ...
04.06.2022, Catholic News
Last Friday, June 3, the relics of St. Therese of Lisieux were solemnly received in the Heiligenkreuz Abbey, a Cistercian monastery situated in the Vienna Woods in the vicinity of ITI’s Campus. The ITI community gratefully participated in the evening event honoring the Little Flower and entrusted the ITI to her patronage anew. The ...
18.05.2022, Catholic News
Sünde, Schuld, Hybris und Erlösung: Die Literaturtagung in Trumau zeigte anhand der Geschichte des Brudermords, wie zeitlos und aktuell die Themen der „Genesis“ sind. von Emanuela Sutter Wer hätte gedacht, dass ein Geschehnis aus dem tausende Jahre alten Buch der „Genesis“ dieser Tage von solch ...
17.05.2022,
On Tuesday 10 May 2022, the ITI welcomed to campus Ján Figeľ under the guise of the Adenauer Forum for a conversation on Catholic Public Leadership with ITI’s President, Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau. Mr. Figeľ was instrumental in providing leadership to his native Slovakia as it transitioned from communism and the Soviet ...
12.05.2022,
Last week, it was a great joy to welcome our Grand Chancellor, His Eminence Christopher Cardinal Schönborn, to the ITI. His Eminence came for a pastoral visit, celebrating the first university common Mass after Easter break and giving another of his ITI lectures on St. Thomas Aquinas. For the lecture this time, Cardinal Schönborn chose ...
05.04.2022,
On 31 March ITI welcomed back Dr. Gudrun Kugler, ITI graduate MTS 1999, to Campus for a talk on Christian values in politics. Dr. Kugler’s talk covered current issues, including COVID measures and day-to-day life as a Member of Parliament. Her talk concluded with several minutes of answering student questions and meeting them face-to-face ...
24.03.2022,
This past weekend, 19 March 2022, over thirty students from the ITI attended the March for Life in Munich, Germany. The students also volunteered to help Stimme der Stillen, the pro-life group managing the March, keep the event well-organized. Stimme der Stillen was most grateful for the aid the students gave. The event began with reading ...
22.03.2022,
On Thursday 17 March 2022 ITI hosted a panel discussion on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The event featured four panelists: Dr. Bernhard Dolna and Pater Dr. Edmund Waldstein, OCist, both ITI professors, Mr. Charles Coulombe, a political historian and ITI graduate student, and Ms. Kateryna Gychka, a Ukrainian lawyer and researcher based in ...
10.03.2022,
Tetiana Stawnychy is the daughter of political refugees who fled Ukraine as teenagers in 1944 to escape Soviet communism during the Second World War. Now, she is on the frontlines helping thousands of other Ukrainian families who are trying to escape after Russia’s invasion two weeks ago. “This is the only place I want to be right ...
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