On Friday October 20th, 2023, at 4:30 PM (CET) we invite you to a lecture by Fr. Jarosław Kupczak O.P. The lecture titled „Church and culture after the Second Vatican Council” will be held in Aula 11 at the Angelicum (Largo Angelicum, 1, 00184 Rome), and will inaugurate the 2023-24 JP2 Lectures series. ___________________ Jarosław Kupczak O.P. is a Polish Dominican and theologian, one of the world's leading experts on the Christian anthropology of John Paul II. He is a lecturer at the Angelicum, as wel as at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow, where he heads the Department of Theological Anthropology at the Faculty of Theology. He also taught at Istituto Giovanni Paolo II in Rome, the Pontifical Lateran University, and the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne, Australia. Among other books, he is the author of „Destined for Freedom. The Human Person in the Philosophy of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II”, and „Gift and Communion: John Paul II's Theology of the Body”. ___________________ The lecture will be delivered in English. ________________ 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. Video recordings of the previous lectures are available here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLokgBM1wQKlmrWpsBpYl629fla7uUz9ys