On Wednesday, November 29th, 2023, at 4:30 PM (CET) we invite you to a lecture by George Weigel (EPPC). The lecture titled “John Paul II, the Priority of Culture, and the Contemporary Culture Wars” will be held in Aula 11 at the Angelicum. _________ The lecture will explore John Paul II’s teaching on the priority of culture in the free and virtuous society of the future, as he outlined that notion in Centesimus Annus. This teaching will then be the prism through which to analyze today’s contemporary Western “culture wars” and the best means to engage those contests. George Weigel – American Catholic philosopher and theologian. He is Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center. George Weigel is author of over twenty books. The first volume of his biography of Pope St. John Paul II, Witness to Hope, was a New York Times bestseller, and his writing appears in a variety of publications, including the Wall Street Journal. In his most recent book entitled To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II , George Weigel explains the necessity of the Second Vatican Council and explores the continuing relevance of its teaching. _________ The lecture will be delivered in English. ________________ https://angelicum.it/st-john-paul-ii-... ________________ The monthly open JP2 Lectures are given by prominent international scholars, and organized by the St. John Paul II Institute of Culture at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Roman Alma Mater of fr. Karol Wojtyła. The guest speakers in the JP2 Lectures series have been, inter alia: Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, John, Lord Alderdice, Sr. Helen Alford O.P., Carl A. Anderson, Rémi Brague, John Cavadini, Renato Cristin, Fr. Francois Daguet O.P., John Finnis, Stanisław Grygiel, Dariusz Karlowicz, John Milbank, Vittorio Possenti, George Weigel, Joseph Weiler, and Bp Rowan Williams.