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9 Jun 2017: VHI Research Associate, Dr Flavio Comim, is organising a three-day conference on 19, 20 and 21 June on ‘the capability approach’. This is the second annual Cambridge Capability Conference and it will take place at the Centre of Development

21 Jun 2017: He comments: ‘I’m delighted by this news. The VHI and IRCI share very similar visions and are at exciting stages of our respective developments.

6 Jun 2017: The Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry (VHI), based at St Edmund’s College in the University of Cambridge invites applications for the new position of Development Officer.

25 Apr 2017: Former VHI Director, Professor John Loughlin, and Cristina Odone, Director of the Legatum Institute's 'Centre for Character and Values', have recently co-authored a research report on positive parenting and family values.

19 Jan 2017: The Price of Truth: Herbert McCabe on Love, Politics and Death Perhaps the greatest theologian of the English-speaking world in the late twentieth century, the Dominican Herbert McCabe never thought of himself as a political theologian.

15 Dec 2017: She also is the author of The New Asceticism: Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God (Bloomsbury, 2015).

9 Jun 2017: Dr Sara Silvestri recently spoke on BBC Cambs on counterterrorism and religious ideology in the wake of the recent terror attacks in the UK. She was also interviewed on TRT World and (for Spanish speakers) on La Segunda.

18 Apr 2017: Dr Vlado Kmec gave a talk on the role of religion in conflict and peace at a meeting of the Peacebuilding and Reconciliation Thematic Reference Group of the Conference of European Churches in Brussels, on Monday 27 February 2017.

19 Oct 2017: On Monday 24 July the VHI held a seminar to present the key findings of the research project

10 Oct 2017: The Las Casas Institute at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, is collaborating with St Mary's University, Twickenham, in running a series of workshops and public lectures examining the importance of human dignity in areas of public concern.

17 Nov 2017: Elif Cetin have hosted several events to present highlights of the recently completed Roundtable discussion organised jointly with the Centre for International Policy Studies and the Social Movements and Civil Society Research Group of City

14 Jul 2017: This project discusses issues arising from current legislation on medically assisted suicide for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, and mental illnesses.

23 Jan 2017: We discussed the progress made over the last year in terms of events, outputs, and fundraising, as well as the future of the Institute under its new name and with a ... The meeting offered an opportunity to welcome a number of new RAs appointed over the

14 Nov 2017: Roundtable discussion organised jointly with the Centre for International Policy Studies and the Social Movements and Civil Society Research Group of City University of London.

3 Nov 2017: The Early Detection Program based at the CRUK/Cambridge Cancer Centre, University of Cambridge, and the Von Hügel Institute (VHI) are planning an interdisciplinary workshop to explore methodological, bioethical and societal Impasses of early

10 Mar 2017: VHI Reserch Associate Dr Vladimir Kmec gave a talk on the role of religion in conflict and peace at a meeting of the Peacebuilding and Reconciliation Thematic Reference Group of the Conference of European Churches in Brussels on Monday, 27 February

11 Jan 2017: The group led by Dr Flavio Comim will read and discuss Love's Knowledge by Martha Nussbaum. What is the importance of love for morality? How does love influence ethics and the way that our moral sentiments are shaped?

16 Feb 2017: Most great thinkers, starting with Plato and Aristotle, have thought that the best reflection on reality in all its riotous complexity begins in wonder. Wonder has thus been at the foundation of the whole gamut of disciplinary inquiries, whether in

15 Dec 2017: De Haan, Daniel, Hylomorphism, New Mechanisms, and Explanations in W. M.R.

19 Jan 2017: The Contributions of Catholicism in the Third Millennium to a Secular University H. E.