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17 Jan 2019: VHI Senior Research Associate

12 Dec 2019: The Von Hügel Institute is saddened to learn of the death of Father Frank McHugh, who was the institute's Director from 1990 to 2000.

1 Jul 2019: Re-thinking Luther's Gutenberg Galaxy in a Post-Digital Age, New Blackfriars, 2018.Mystagogische Zugänge zur Kirche als Leib Christi: Certeaus taktische Re-lektüre von Corpus Mysticum und das Vermächtnis ... London - New York: T&T Clark, 2015: pp.

9 Aug 2019: In recent decades the Catholic Church, alongside other institutions, has been rocked by revelations about widespread physical and sexual abuse of minors by its clergy.

12 Dec 2019: An insightful piece by Dr Catherine Osbourne on the VHI research project '

23 Sep 2019: VHI Research Associate Vladimir Kmec's response to Johathan Chaplin's chapter 'From Inspiration to Implementation: Laudato Si, Public Theology and the Demands of Energy Policy' has been published in the volume In Search of Good Energy Policy

11 Apr 2019: Essays in Philosophical Theology (1987), Aquinas on Mind (1993), The Oxford History of Western Philosophy (1994), The Unknown God: Agnostic Essays (2004), and most recently A New History of Western Philosophy

2 Jul 2019: The VHI is delighted to welcome Rev Professor Greg Peters who has been appointed as Visiting Scholar of St Edmund's College and the Von Hügel Institute for the academical year 2019-2020.

6 Nov 2019: Dr Sara Silvestri were invited speakers at the Cambridge RESPOND conference: 'Unpacking the Challenges and Possibilities for Migration Governance', which took place on 17-19 October at Newnham College, Cambridge.

22 Feb 2019: Catholicity, the key marker of the Roman Catholic Church, has been understood in many different ways over the last two millennia. As worldviews change in complex ways human communities, whether religious or not, imagine their place in the cosmos

25 Feb 2019: The VHI is delighted to welcome visiting student

23 Apr 2019: The VHI is currently exploring different visions of one of its key markers, ‘catholicity’, and contemporary constrictions in its embodiment of that capacious characteristic.

19 Dec 2019: Her research area is in the application of new digital technology to social systems. ... She is interested in how digital technology impacts on the person and the need for new digital frameworks that will help to analyze digital research in the future.

19 Jun 2019: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Sara Silvestri hosts a discussion seminar for Refugee Week at St Paul's Cathedral. VHI's Sara Silvestri has organised the seminar Why Bother About Refugee Week? which discussed the

3 Oct 2019: VHI Senior Research Associates Professor Gill Goulding gave a paper on 'Authority and Vulnerability' at the invitation-only colloquium of the International Association of Catholic Bioethicists (IACB) in Quebec, in June 2019.

4 Oct 2019: VHI Research Associate Clericalism and Sexuality. Link to the article Full text  

8 Aug 2019: The Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry (VHI) is looking for a dynamic and innovative Development Officer to support its fundraising campaign along with the VHI Director, VHI development collaborators and the College’s Development

28 May 2019: VHI's Research Associate Dr Çetin has been appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), where she is conducting research for her upcoming book on migration politics in UK and

23 Sep 2019: The VHI is planning a 3-year interdisciplinary research project on Clericalism and Sexuality. The goal of this project is to collect reliable data and analyze it from the viewpoint of the relation between clericalism and sexuality.

2 May 2019: The new vision and title of the Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry, establishes the ambitious goal of VHI to be "the first Institute of Advanced Studies in Europe inspired

17 May 2019: The special issue of the Journal of Disability and Religion, edited by Thana de Campos and Lidia Ripamonti, with contributions from the interdisciplinary workshop "

15 Nov 2019: The 2020 Von Hügel Lecture delivered by Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald: Christians in the Arab World: The Present Situation This lecture will offer a survey of the present situation of Christians in the Arab World, ie. MENA: Middle East and North

14 Feb 2019: On Friday 8 February Fr Thomas Rosica delivered the 2019 Annual Von Hügel Lecture on the topic: '

23 Sep 2019: The Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry, based at St Edmund’s College in Cambridge, held a three day invitation-only workshop on the possible interconnections between clericalism and sexuality. The workshop was the start of a

15 Nov 2019: UPDATE - PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CAMBRIDGE LAUNCH OF THE PATENTS ON LIFE BOOK ON FRIDAY 13 MARCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A SIMILAR EVENT IS TAKING PLACE IN LONDON ON THURSDAY 12 MARCH AT 6PM AND WILL BE BROADCAST AS A WEBINAR.

18 Jan 2019: The papers of last year's workshop '

14 Feb 2019: The Von Hügel Lecture 2019 CATHOLICITY: CRISES AND OPPORTUNITIES Fr Thomas Rosica CSB In recent years Catholicity has become a tribal designation of a particular group of Christians over against others, divisive and constraining rather than

8 Oct 2019: Congratulations to VHI Research Associate Gianmarco Contino, who has been appointed Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Cancer Genomic and Honorary Consultant at the University of Birmingham.

28 May 2019: VHI's Research Associate Dr Vlado Kmec has co-authored the research article The Strengths and Limitations of the Inclusion of Religious Actors in Peace Processes in Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Brill). He also wrote on the recent

23 Sep 2019: It also emerged that traditional orders (like for examples the Dominicans or the Benedictines) and new movements (like the Opus Dei) have developed models of accountability and divisions of powers in