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30 Nov 2018: Say it to God: In Search of Prayer was chosen as the 2018 Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book and welcomed by many as an honest, accessible guide to freshen their practice of prayer in the midst of busy modern life. In Touched by God, Gioia moves

10 Mar 2015: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Dr Silvestri awarded research grant by Charles Plater Trust. had been awarded a research grant by the Charles Plater Trust for a project on the contribution of Catholic social thought

6 Oct 2015: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Patents on Life: Through the Lenses of Law, Religious Faith and Social Justice. A unique institute of advanced studies inspired by Catholic thought and culture, focussed on

25 Jan 2024: VHI Reading Group for Lent 2024 During Lent Term 2024, VHI Research Associate Dr Flavio Comim will lead an online reading group to discuss Daniel Chandler’s Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?

5 Mar 2014: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Dr Silvestri gives lecture on European Muslim women at ULB. gave a guest lecture on Muslim women in Europe at the Universite' Libre de Bruxelles on 12 February 2014. On 20 February

31 Jul 2014: Congratulations to Mr Francis Campbell on his appointment as Vice-Chancellor of St Mary's University College, Twickenham, a Catholic university in London. Mr Campbell is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund's College and a member of the

6 Jun 2017: The VHI is seeking a dynamic and innovative Development Officer to support a major fundraising campaign

17 Feb 2021: jointly organised with St Edmund's College Combination Room

12 Jun 2014: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Dr Sara Silvestri on LBC radio and new publication on religious diversity. VHI Research Associate and Senior Lecturer in International Politics at City University) was interview by

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

28 Jun 2022: Professor Alison Cornish's (NYU and President of the Dante Society of America) lecture will be based on her new, ground-breaking book, Believing in Dante, which offers a compelling new take on Dante's Divine Comedy with modern sensibilities in mind,

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29 Jan 2018: VHI Senior Research Associate,

21 Oct 2015: religious non-governmental organisations in the field of migration in the UK.

15 Jan 2014:   The Churchill Archives Centre and Cambridge Public Policy are jointly hostig a two day conference to discuss the complex interfaces between politics and religion, at home and abroad, in modern Britain. The conference will take place on 12-13

15 Jan 2014: Professor John Loughlin has been invited by the Cambridge University European Society to give a talk about the current issues regarding the frameworks for the future of the European Union and of the UK as Member State.

23 Jan 2018: This project, led by Professor Ralf Wüstenberg and co-sponsored by the DAAD/Cambridge Hub with the Europa-University Flensburg, brings together scholars and practitioners with expertise in different country-specific cases of political

17 Mar 2014: Professor John Loughlin, Director of the Von Hügel Institute, Fellow of St Edmund's College and Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, will deliver the Gaudium et Spes Lecture 2014: "Religion in the Public Sphere

15 Jan 2014: A comment piece by VHI research associate Dr Sara Silvestri on counter-terrorism laws in Britain. Sara is a Senior Lecturer at City University London and an Affiliated Lecturer with the POLIS Department at Cambridge University.

26 Mar 2014: This project led by Professor Ralf K.

24 Feb 2014: Westminster Archbishop Vincent Nichols, who is to be made a cardinal by Pope Francis on Saturday, has criticised the Government’s welfare cuts for tearing apart the safety net that protects the poorest families in our communities. VHI Director

24 Feb 2014: On Saturday 22 February the Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols was one of 19 new cardinals appointed by Pope Francis.

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

16 Jan 2017: Former VHI Director Prof John Loughlin has published a new article on Human Dignity: the Foundation of Human Rights and Religious Freedom in Memoria y civilización, Vol 19 (2016).  Professor Loughlin, who is currently a Research Fellow at

8 Jun 2018: The full report of the joint VHI-DAAD international workshop ‘here.

24 Jun 2015: The Von Hugel Institute is saddened to learn of the death of Professor Frank Delmartino on Sunday, 21 June 2015. Prof. Delmartino co-founded the Institute for European Policy at KU Leuven and he was a noted specialist on European integration. Last

4 Mar 2014: The Irish Times reports on Professor Mary McAleese challenging and stimulating lecture, which she delivered last Friday at the University of Cambridge. The video of the event will be available soon! 

17 Jan 2018: The Lattey Lecture 2018: Apocalypse Forgotten? The Book of Revelation as a Neglected Resource for Catholic Social Teaching will be given by Ian Boxall, Associate Professor of New Testament at the Catholic University of America, on Friday 25 May 2018

15 Dec 2017: The VHI is delighted to host the launch of The Archbishop of Canterbury Lent Book 2018 Say it to God: In Search of Prayer, introduced by Professor Sarah Coakley and the book's author,

25 Nov 2015: One Day Symposium

17 Feb 2021: jointly organised with St Edmund's College Combination Room

1 Mar 2018: Following an election process at the meeting of the Governing Body on 22 February, St Edmund's College is pleased to announce that the Vice-Master Elect is Dr Philip McCosker.

21 Nov 2014: The video of the panel discussion '

17 Feb 2021: Within Palestine, Arab Christians are publicly visible as providers of religiously based discourses on social solidarity and the common good, for example in the form of contextual theologies.

22 Sep 2014: Professor John Loughlin was interviewed on the topic of separatist and indipendence movements in Europe, including Scotland, Catalonia and Wales.

5 Jul 2018: On 29th June VHI's Research Associate

21 May 2015: Two recent publications on migration policy by Dr Elif Cetin: The Italian left and Italy's (evolving) foreign policy of immigration controls on the Journal of Modern Italian Studies (JMIS)  A comment piece on the many implications of recent EU

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.

26 Mar 2014: The ITORP project, headed by Dr Frank Madsen, is investigating the illicit trade and traffic in organs for transplantation. It examines aspects of ethical, medical, legal and policy dimensions of the problem with particular emphasis on the dignity

4 Dec 2017: The Von Hügel Lecture 2018 POPE FRANCIS’ REVOLUTION OF MERCY: AMORIS LAETITIA AS A NEW PARADIGM OF CATHOLICITY Cardinal Blase Cupich   Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia represents a paradigm shift for the Church’s ministry.

3 Feb 2014: ‘Habit Matters: The bodily Character of the Virtues’ by Professor Stanley Hauerwas

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.

5 Jan 2022: The October 2021 Issue of Reviews in Religion and Theology is now online and freely available to those with institutional access. The international reviews journal, edited by Philip McCosker and Vittorio Montemaggi, is published from the Von Hügel

27 Jan 2020: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Colin Williams gives plenary opening address at National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Conference. is travelling to Minsk, Belarus, this month to give a Plenary Opening Address

13 Jan 2015: Inequality is back at the centre of the public discourse. Is this good or bad news for the European Union? In this article on the Social Europe (SE) forum Jan Zielonka argues that the EU should concentrate on selected social projects where it could

14 Feb 2019: Former VHI Director and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund's College, Professor John Loughlin is the editor of Human Dignity in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition: Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2019).

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.

8 Dec 2016: Dr Sara Silvestri, on Thursday 8 December at 6pm at City University of London. The event is organised by the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) and is free to attend. Click here for more details.

1 Jun 2020: Due to the unprecendented circumstances of the COVID-19 outbreak, the doors of the VHI had to temporarily remain closed, however at St Edmund's College we are working tirelessly to prepare for the next phase.