Benedict XVI on Eschatology and Political Order
Featuring Dr. Russell Hittinger, Catholic University of America
Date & Time:
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location:
Webinar
Co-sponsored by the John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought and the Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law, and Public Policy
Join us for this special online event with Dr. Russell Hittinger, Senior Research Fellow and Co-director of the Program in Catholic Political Thought at the Catholic University of America. In this presentation, Dr. Hittinger will speak to the ways in which Joseph Ratzinger, as theologian and pope, for decades emphasized that the Church’s proper influence on political order is moral rather than eschatological and that this distinction is both profound and inescapable from a Christian point of view.
Speaker
Since 2001, he is a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, to which he was elected a full member (ordinarius) in 2004, and appointed to the consilium or governing board from 2006-2018. On 8 September 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Dr. Hittinger as an ordinarius in the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, in which he finished his ten-year term in 2019.
He is currently a Fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America, where he also serves as the inaugural co-Director of the Program in Catholic Political Thought.