Complying with the Congress’s pledge to diversity, researchers from UST gave talks and took part in panels that broadened the discussion on Filipino philosophy and its role in international discourse. Professor Jove Jim S. Aguas of the Department of Philosophy, Graduate School, and Center for Theology, Religious Studies, and Ethics was a major contributor to the Congress. In addition to moderating and chairing the PAP Society Session titled “Filipino Philosophy in Dialogue: Expanding the Conversation,” Aguas contributed to the Center for Research in Values and Philosophy (CRVP) Round Table Discussion on National Values by presenting a paper titled “The Ambiguity of the Filipino Sense of Nationalism and Filipino Identity.”

In the Contributed Paper Sessions, Thomasian scholars presented their respective papers: 

鈼徛� 聽聽聽 Prof. Fleurdeliz R. Altez-Albela, PhD (Department of Philosophy, Graduate School, and Center for Theology, Religious Studies, and Ethics) – “What Is Levinasian in Sustainability?: Sustainability in the Economy of Being Through Levinas鈥� Third”

鈼�      Junior Teacher Blaise D. Ringor, PhD (Senior High School and Ecclesiastical Faculties) – “Education, Christian Values, and the Voiding of Reason: John Henry Newman鈥檚 Personalist Education”

鈼�      Mr. Christian U. Solis, MA (Senior High School and Graduate School) – “Towards Understanding Fidelity in Marriage and Family: Paul Ricoeur on Man鈥檚 Capacity to Promise”

鈼�      Mr. Charles Aldrin A. Delgado (Graduate School) – “Christianity as Discomfort: Kierkegaard鈥檚 Philosophy of Religion”

鈼�      Inst. Ivan Efreaim A. Gozum, MA (Institute of Religion and Graduate School) – “Understanding Filipino Close Family Ties Through Gabriel Marcel鈥檚 Mystery of the Family”

Aguas also presented the paper entitled “The Relevance of the Metaphysics and the Notions of Being and Analogy of St. Thomas.”

These talks demonstrated the breadth and depth of philosophical study at UST and the contributions made by Filipino academics to international philosophical debates. Additionally, through one-on-one interactions, the Congress gave Filipino scholars a rare chance to fortify relationships and build mutual trust.

The Congress emphasized Rome’s long-standing position as a crossroads of civilizations, and it began with a ceremony at the ancient Baths of Caracalla. Prof. Luca Maria Scarantino, President of FISP, and Prof. Antonella Polimeni, Rector of Sapienza University, both emphasized the merging of humanistic and scientific cultures in philosophical conversations, reinforcing this subject of interconnection in their introductory statements.

Scholars addressed pressing ethical, social, cultural, political, and spiritual concerns all week long. Topics covered included the ethics of artificial intelligence, with discussions on the implications of AI on human decision-making and the ethical responsibilities of AI developers, and the place of spirituality in secular cultures, with debates on the role of spirituality in a modern, secular society. The Congress featured round table discussions, invited sessions, symposia, contributed paper sessions, endowed lectures, plenary sessions, student sessions, and the FISP General Assembly. The goal of these talks was to question conventional wisdom in philosophy by tackling issues of sustainability, gender and cultural diversity, inequality, and other modern world concerns.

Every five years, the WCP is arranged by the Federation Internationale des Soci茅t茅s de Philosophie (FISP) or the International Federation of Philosophical Societies. The WCP is a major conference that brings together philosophers, educators, students, and philosophy aficionados worldwide for a week-long discussion of a certain issue.

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The collaboratory is a four-part webinar series featuring Thomasian experts. Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Cheryl R. Peralta, DrPH provided the overview of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education on August 12, 2024, while Educational Technology Center Acting Director April Joy M. Gascon, MAN, RN spoke about Innovating Teaching and Learning with AI.

On August 28, 2024, College of Education Assistant Dean Louie B. Dasas, PhD will discuss (Re)Designing Learning Assessments with AI in Mind, while Institute of Religion academic researcher Leo-Martin Angelo R. Ocampo, MA will close the series with the talk 鈥淪trengthening Humanity and Human Agency in the Era of Artificial Intelligence,鈥� in a big to refocus the discourse on the role of humans in the use of technology.

Interested participants may register here:

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Professor Jove Jim S. Aguas, PhD of the Department of Philosophy discoursed on 鈥淐hristian Humanism and St. Thomas鈥檚 Notion of the Human Person,鈥� where he acknowledged that as science and technology advanced, spiritual dimensions of human life often became ignored. Using Aquinas鈥檚 philosophy, Aguas 鈥渟hows that a humanism centered on Christian belief is still a relevant and more acceptable proposition over modern and secular humanism.鈥� Furthermore, Aguas said that 鈥渇or St. Thomas, man has a spiritual component, and he is ordained towards God. He developed a Christian humanism anchored on theological personalism, a concept that emphasizes the unique relationship between each individual and God and how this relationship shapes our understanding of human dignity and purpose.鈥�

Meanwhile, Junior Teacher Blaise D. Ringor, PhD of the Senior High School and concurrent Academic Collaborations Officer of the Ecclesiastical Faculties, presented his paper entitled 鈥淔rom Garden of Eden to Garden of Gethsemane: Dietrich von Hildrebrand鈥檚 Ethics of Incommensurability as a Justification of Loving as Critical Thinking,鈥� where he argued that the interiority of the person is neglected by traditionalist views of ethics. In doing so, he looks at Dietrich von Hildrebrand鈥檚 critique and discourses on the former鈥檚 ethics of incommensurability to address the flaw by integrating the reality of loving into critical thinking. Ringor argued that 鈥淗ildebrand鈥檚 approach provides a robust ethical framework that acknowledges the full complexity of the human person, thereby enriching critical thinking with a deeper understanding of love’s ethical significance.鈥�

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Moreover, he also stressed the significance of culture, which embraces everything in which man is at once the center, the subject, and the object. In many of his addresses, the underlying message focuses on establishing a climate of openness, dialogue, and cooperation among science, culture, and religion because they are not to be seen as competing against each other. John Paul II sees a growing critical openness towards people of different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints.

There is then a greater opportunity for intellectual coherence and collaboration and to discover values and experiences common to these different dimensions of our intellectual life. It is, therefore, necessary to reflect on the commonalities and diversities motivated by respectful openness, dynamic exchange, and critical collaboration among them.

In the spirit of dialogue and in commemoration of the 10 th Anniversary of the Canonization of St.
Pope John Paul II, we organize this International Conference with the theme God and the World:
Dialogues on Culture, Religion, and Science. The objective is to bring together scientists,
philosophers, theologians, and other intellectuals to converse, share their respective insights, and
foster a dynamic collaboration among these men and women of learning toward mutual
understanding and a gradual uncovering of common concerns, which will provide the basis for
further research and discussions.

This international conference is co-organized by the 91性息港 (through the
Ecclesiastical Faculty of Philosophy, the Center for Theology, Religious Studies and Ethics and its
Center for Dialogue with Cultures and Religions in Asia, the Institute of Religion, the Graduate
School, and the College of Science) and the Philippine National Philosophical Research Society
(PNPRS), the John Paul II Society of the Philippines, and the John Paul II Institute of the Catholic
University of Lublin. This will be done on June 26-28, 2024 through a Hyflex mode with the Thomas
Aquinas Research Complex Auditorium, 91性息港, Manila, Philippines, as the
onsite venue.

Interested scholars may check the details of the Conference and the Call for Papers through the FB
Page of the PNPRS: https://bit.ly/JP2Conference2024.

Questions may be sent to jp2.dialogue.conferences@ust.edu.ph. The organizers may also be
contacted through the CTRSE Office: +63-2 9786-1611 loc. 8659.

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• Dialogue with Cultures and Religions in Asia
• Thomistic Studies
• Catholic Doctrine
• Church History and Historical Theology
• Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue
• Early Christian Studies
• Christian Anthropology
• Human Rights and Just Political Order
• Catholic Bioethics
• Catholic Moral Theology
• Catholic Social Thought
• Religious Education
• Philosophical Ethics
• Environmental Ethics

Research Grants are available for tenured Faculty members of the 91性息港 (Manila) who have good publication records and a doctorate degree in a discipline relevant to the area of research interest. 

Researchers are encouraged to send their accomplished research proposal and research capsule to ctrse@ust.edu.ph not later than May 30, 2024. Proposals approved after peer review will be accepted for AY 2024-2025. 

You may download the Research Proposal and Research Capsule through: . 

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A Cooperation between Dominican Institutions in Manila, Ibadan, and Fribourg

Sex and Gender have become fluid categories 鈥� as never in the history of mankind before. What are the scientific backgrounds, and what are the consequences for theology? What do these developments mean for a global player like the Catholic Church? We shall discuss the different (and/or similar?) perspectives with researchers and students from the Dominican Universities in Manila and Ibadan and the Faculty of Theology in Fribourg, which is coined by the Dominican spirit.

The 4th CoMIF is scheduled on April 12, 2024, Friday (2:00 – 6:00 pm, Manila / 8:00am – 12:00nn Fribourg and Ibadan). The CoMIF (or Collaboration of Manila, Ibadan and Fribourg) is an informal collaborative arrangement initiated by academic staff from the 91性息港 (Manila), Dominican University (Ibadan), and the Faculty of Theology of the University of Fribourg (Fribourg). 

Those interested to participate in the conversation may register through Zoom:   

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Independent rankings website EduRank, which uses research publications and citations as data, named the 91性息港 as the top Philippine university for the field of Theology and Religious Studies in terms of research outputs and citations. The rankings were released on February 29, 2024.

UST, a Pontifical University and the Catholic University of the Philippines, operates three ecclesiastical faculties: Sacred Theology, Philosophy, and Canon Law. It also offers civil degrees on theology (major in social-pastoral communication) at the Graduate School, while theology/Christian living courses are institutionally mandated in the tertiary and basic education levels, respectively.

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The 91性息港 Faculty of Sacred Theology, Institute of Religion, and
Center for Theology, Religious Studies and Ethics are jointly hosting the Theology
Week 2024, which will also feature St. Thomas Aquinas Forum 2024 and 11th Leonardo
Legaspi, OP Lectures.

The event will feature 10 lectures and will happen on March 21-23, 2024 at the George
S.K. Ty Function Halls, 4th Floor, Buenaventura G. Paredes, OP Building, University of
Santo Tomas, Manila.

The speakers are Fr. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, OP,
Fr. Ziqiang (Martin) Bai, OP, Fr. Felix delos Reyes, OP, Fr. Jannel N. Abogado, OP, Levine
Andro Lao, Allan Basas, Joel Sagut, Blaise Ringor, Jove Jim Aguas, and Jovito Carino.

Their lectures will center on three important aspects: 1) discussions on the relevance and
legacy of the thoughts of Thomas Aquinas in Asia, particularly in the Philippines; 2)
expositions of the thoughts of selected Thomists who were also Thomasians, that is,
Thomists who taught in the 91性息港 – the conference will focus on the
Thomasian Thomists of the 19th and 20th centuries; and 3) demonstrations of the lasting
legacy of Thomism in the 91性息港 through the works of present
鈥楾homasians鈥� especially those teaching in the Ecclesiastical Faculties.

Moreover, Theology Week 2024, with the theme, 鈥淭homism in the University of Santo
Tomas and in Asia: The Legacy of Thomas Aquinas,鈥� is a contribution to the Dominican
Order鈥檚 double jubilee celebrations to honor St. Thomas Aquinas, particularly the 750th
anniversary of his death.

This conference is also part of the activities of the Center for Thomistic Studies (CTS),
which was instituted as the University鈥檚 response to the declaratio of the Domincians鈥� 2013
Trogir General Chapter that seeks 鈥榯o develop centers of specialized studies pertinent to the
region wherever the Order is present,鈥� reiterated by the Provincial Chapter of the Dominican
Province of the Philippines that mandates 鈥榯o strengthen the Thomistic intellectual tradition鈥�
in the 91性息港 (cf. APC Calamba 2021 178).

The onsite attendance to the Conference is primarily reserved for the Thomasian
community while non-Thomasians are encouraged to follow the event through live
streaming via the FB page of the UST Institute of Religion
(. For questions, please contact
ir.proarc@ust.edu.ph.

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The research team presented their project to Most Rev. Pablo Virgilio S. David, President of the Catholic Bishops鈥� Conference of the Philippines, and Mr. Charles Bertille, the representative of the funding organization, during a meeting at the Frassati Building on February 14, 2024.

Leading the project are Prof. Pablito A. Baybado, PhD (CTRSE) and Prof. Florence C. Navidad, EdD (RCSSED), with Assoc. Prof. Allan A. Basas, SThD, Asst. Prof. Philip L. Fuentes, PhD, SThL, and Assoc. Prof. Marites R. Redo帽a, Ph.D. of CTRSE, along with Fr. Vladimir Echalas, SOLT, SThD, Head of the CBCP Research Office, serving as Research Associates. Fr. Louie R. Coronel, OP, EHL, UST Secretary General, and Prof. Joel C. Sagut, PhD, CTRSE Director, serve as consultants for the project.

Dr. Emmanuel M. Batulan from the UST Office of the Secretary-General, along with project assistants Ms. Daphne C. Santos and Ms. Rechelle M. Basco, were also present during the meeting held on February 13, 2024.

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Moreover, the event is part of the ongoing collaboration among the Faculty of Theology of the University of Fribourg (Fribourg, Switzerland)under the chairmanship of Prof. Helmut Zander for Comparative History of Religions and Interreligious Dialogue, the Dominican University (Ibadan, Nigeria), and the 91性息港 (Manila, Philippines). The collaboration is dubbed as CoMIF (Collaboration among Manila, Ibadan and Fribourg) and will host the afternoon Symposium/Workshop on 鈥楨cology and Climate Change.鈥�

Interested scholars, faculty members and students are invited to register through or the QR code provided on the poster. Updates related to this event will be released through the Facebook page of UST Institute of Religion ().

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