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39-656: Through the Faculty of Theology, the Sheptytsky Institute offers seven graduate programs: Current course offerings include: In 2017, Cardinal Thomas Collins , Archbishop of Toronto , called the Sheptytsky Institute a "great spiritual and intellectual treasure" of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, and a "glorious enrichment to St. Michael's College". Named after Metropolitan of Galicia and Archbishop of Halych Andrey Sheptytsky , O.S.B.M. ,

78-799: A Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1986. His doctoral dissertation was entitled: "Apocalypse 22:6–21 as the Focal Point of Moral Teaching and Exhortation in the Apocalypse ." After becoming associate editor of Discover the Bible in 1989, Collins returned to St. Peter's Seminary as Dean of Theology and vice- rector in 1992. He later served as rector of St. Peter's from 1995 to 1997. On 25 March 1997, Collins

117-543: A legal secretary . He has two older sisters. As a child, he was an altar server at the Our Lady Immaculate Church . He attended St. Stanislaw's Elementary School and Bishop Macdonell High School , where he was inspired by one of his English teachers to join the priesthood. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from St. Jerome College , Waterloo in 1969, Collins was ordained to

156-516: A Cardinal by Pope Francis in December 2024. If that happens, as is expected, there would be two voting age cardinals in one episcopal see at the same time. Such a situation has likely occurred before (as the Pope is free to do as he wishes in this regard) but is generally avoided, in order to not have two voting-age cardinals from the same archdiocese. George Weigel George Weigel (born 1951)

195-531: A book, The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God , which has been cited in the context of " Eurabia literature", which Weigel has himself cited as a possible future scenario for Europe. On January 27, 2017, in response to rumours that Weigel would be appointed ambassador to the Holy See, then-Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick wrote to Pope Francis stating that Weigel

234-821: A fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars . Weigel served as the founding president of the James Madison Foundation (not to be confused with the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation ) from 1986 to 1989. From 1989 through June 1996, Weigel was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center . In 1994, he was a signer of the document Evangelicals and Catholics Together . He currently serves as Distinguished Senior Fellow and Chair of Catholic Studies at

273-468: A religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society. The main body of Weigel's writings engage the issues of religion and culture. Weigel advocates a US foreign policy guided not by utopian notions about how nations should behave, but by moral reasoning. From the Iliad to Tolstoy and beyond, that familiar trope, "the fog of war," has been used to evoke the millennia–old experience of

312-515: Is Canada's only double-blind peer-reviewed journal in the field. LOGOS is a tri-lingual (English, French, Ukrainian) theological review that focuses on Eastern Christian Studies, emphasizing both Orthodox and Catholic Eastern Churches with a special, but not exclusive, interest in the Church of Kyiv. Other material published by the Sheptytsky Institute include DVDs and CDs for instruction in congregational singing and recordings of plenary sessions from

351-756: Is a Canadian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was the Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto from 2007 to 2023, the Bishop of Saint Paul in Alberta from 1997 to 1999, and Archbishop of Edmonton from 1999 to 2006. He was elevated to the rank of Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI on 18 February 2012. Collins was born in Guelph , Ontario, the son of George Collins, circulation manager of The Guelph Mercury , and his wife, Juliana ( née Keen),

390-534: Is an American Catholic neoconservative author, political analyst, and social activist. He currently serves as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center . Weigel was the Founding President of the James Madison Foundation. He is the author of a best-selling biography of Pope John Paul II , Witness to Hope , and Tranquillitas Ordinis : The Present Failure and Future Promise of American Catholic Thought on War and Peace . Weigel

429-780: The Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. Each summer, Weigel and several other Catholic intellectuals from the United States, Poland, and across Europe conduct the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society in Kraków , in which they and an assortment of students from the United States, Poland, and several other emerging democracies in Central and Eastern Europe discuss Christianity within

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468-550: The Roman Curia , Collins was appointed a member of the Congregation for Catholic Education . He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2013 papal conclave that elected Pope Francis . On 11 February 2023, Pope Francis accepted his resignation as archbishop of Toronto. Collins remains a cardinal and eligible to vote in a papal conclave until the age of 80. His successor, Frank Leo, will be named

507-571: The diaconate on 14 May 1972. In 1973, he received a Master of Arts in English from the University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor of Theology degree from St. Peter's Seminary , London . Collins was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Hamilton , Ontario, by Bishop Paul Reding on 5 May 1973. He then served as associate pastor at Holy Rosary Parish in Burlington and at Christ

546-884: The papal cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice and the Gloria Artis Gold Medal from the Polish Ministry of Culture. Weigel lived in the Compton area , serving as assistant professor of theology and assistant dean of studies at the St. Thomas the Apostle Seminary School of Theology in Kenmore, Washington , and scholar-in-residence at the World Without War Council of Greater Seattle, before returning to Washington, D.C. , as

585-781: The Christians of Persia , Liturgy and Byzantinization in Jerusalem , Newly Canonized & Newly Discovered Saints of the Kyivan Church, Church Singing in the Kyivan Churches in the Era of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky (1865-1944), Toward an Orthodox Approach to the History of Christian Doctrine, Sasanian Persia , and Liturgical Theology after Schmemann : An Orthodox Reading of Paul Ricoeur . In October 2018,

624-692: The Conference of Bishops of Alberta. In Edmonton Collins initiated monthly lectio divina sessions at St. Joseph's Cathedral Basilica . He also established St. Benedict's Chapel in a vacant store in Edmonton's City Centre Mall for ministry to downtown shoppers and office workers. Within the CCCB, he served as Chairman of the National Commission of Theology (1999–2001) and Chairman of the National Commission on Christian Unity (2001–2003). He

663-743: The Cube" in which he used the contrast between the modernist Grande Arche de la Défense , and the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, both located in Paris, France , to illustrate what he called a loss of "civilizational morale" in Western Europe , which he tied to the secular tyrannies of the 20th century, along with, more recently, plummeting birthrates and Europe's refusal to recognize the Christian roots of its culture. The article helped to popularize

702-565: The Institute launched a series of presentations, "Thursdays at Sheptytsky," and in January 2018 it expanded it to "Tuesdays and Thursdays at Sheptytsky". Seminars, and authors of books that have been launched, include: The Sheptytsky Institute catalogue includes over 115 scholarly books published in English, Ukrainian, French, German, and Greek. Titles include: The institute also publishes LOGOS: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies which

741-747: The Institute organized a panel on the controversial 2018 tomos of autocephaly by the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the Church of Kyiv. [1] Faculty have been interviewed by CNN , the Catholic News Agency , Voskresinnya (Ukraine), and have appeared at the “ Ukraine-Russia Conflict : The Religious Dimension” sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace , The Religious Freedom Institute and George Washington University . Thomas Christopher Collins Thomas Christopher Collins (born 16 January 1947)

780-869: The King Cathedral , as well as an English teacher and chaplain at Cathedral Boys' High School . He furthered his studies in Rome, specializing in sacred scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute , from which he obtained a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture in 1978. Upon his return to Ontario in 1978, Collins served as a lecturer in English at King's College and in Scripture at St. Peter's Seminary , where he later became spiritual director (1981) and associate professor of Scripture (1985). Returning to Rome, he completed

819-463: The Pope, but there are no indications in their correspondence whether he ever did so. Following the controversial September 2006 lecture of Pope Benedict XVI at Regensburg, Weigel defended the Pope's call for interreligious dialogue based on reason. In January 2009, Weigel expressed concern on the lifting of the excommunications of the bishops of the Society of Saint Pius X , essentially because

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858-742: The Right Rev. Dr. Andriy Chirovsky, Very Rev. Dr. Peter Galadza , Subdeacon Dr. Brian Butcher, Dr. Daniel Galadza and Rev. Dr. Alexander Laschuk. An endowment from the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute Foundation, operating under the aegis of the Ukrainian Catholic Bishops of Canada, funds the institute's work. In addition to its university degree programs in Eastern Christian Studies, since 1987,

897-969: The Sheptytsky Institute has offered month-long summer intensive programs. Past locations included: In 1996, the Institute began co-sponsoring a summer program at the Univ Lavra , near Lviv , Ukraine , together with the Ukrainian Catholic University . In 2008 the Sheptytsky Institute created the first "Study Days" in Ottawa, later spreading to Edmonton. Guest speakers have included Thomas Hopko , Frederica Mathewes-Green , Robert F. Taft , Timothy Kelleher , Sr. Vassa Larin , Myroslaw Tataryn, Suzette Phillips, Martha Shepherd, and John Behr . The institute's Byzantine Rite Chapel of St. Sophia and Her Daughters, Faith, Hope and Love, holds services in English, French, Ukrainian, and other languages such as Greek and Church Slavonic. September 2017

936-770: The Sheptytsky Institute was founded in 1986 by Fr. Andriy Chirovsky at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago . In September 1990, the Sheptytsky Institute moved to Ottawa, and in May 1992 became an academic unit of the Faculty of Theology at Saint Paul University . On July 1, 2017, the Sheptytsky Institute moved from Saint Paul University to its new home at the University of St. Michael's College in Toronto . Current, full-time and seasonal faculty includes

975-682: The Study Days. In 1992 Fr. Andriy Chirovsky produced a 6-hour DVD course on how to create Byzantine-style icons using traditional methods. The institute organized the conference "The Vatican II ( Second Vatican Council ) Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, Orientalium ecclesiarum - Fifty Years Later" featuring presentations by Brian E. Daley , John H. Erickson , Bishop Nicholas Samra , Thomas Bird, Roman Zaviyskyy, Bishop David Motiuk , Jaroslav Skira, Andriy Chirovsky, Peter Galadza and many other speakers. The conference

1014-501: The United States support authoritarian regimes to fend off the greater evils of moral decay and threats to the security of the United States. For Weigel, America's shortcomings do not excuse it from pursuing the greater moral good. Weigel wrote Witness to Hope , a biography of the late Pope John Paul II, which was also made into a documentary film. In 2004 Weigel wrote an article in Commentary magazine entitled "The Cathedral and

1053-526: The context of liberal democracy and capitalism, with the papal encyclical Centesimus annus being the focal point. Weigel and his wife Joan live in north Bethesda, Maryland. They have three children. He is a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation . Weigel writes and serves on the board for the Institute for Religion and Public Life, which publishes First Things , an ecumenical publication that focuses on encouraging

1092-510: The fifth Bishop of Saint Paul in Alberta upon the latter's retirement on 30 June 1997. He became a member of the National Commission of Theology of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) that same year. Collins was promoted to Coadjutor Archbishop of Edmonton on 18 February 1999, and later succeeded Archbishop Joseph MacNeil as the sixth Archbishop of Edmonton on the following 7 June. He served as president of

1131-480: The group has been critical of some aspects of the Second Vatican Council , especially its teaching on religious liberty , which Weigel strongly defends. Weigel was critical of the 2019 Amazon Synod and the structure of church synods in general, saying that they never fully represent what lay Catholics believe and describing them as a masquerade for the intrusion of progressive ideologies into

1170-457: The other's freedom even if the other, skeptical and relativist, finds it hard to give an account of the freedom of the Christian." This is a theme sounded clearly by Marcello Pera and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (from 2005 to 2013 Pope Benedict XVI ), in their book Without Roots: the West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam , for which Weigel authored the foreword. In 2005, he expanded the article into

1209-876: The publication of the Ryan and Murphy Reports in 2009. Collins is a member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications . He has also served as the Delegate of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith for Anglicanorum Coetibus (providing for personal ordinariates for Anglicans entering into full communion with the Catholic Church). On 18 February 2012, he was created Cardinal-Priest of San Patrizio . In addition to his other duties in

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1248-417: The radical uncertainty of combat. Some analysts, however, take the trope of "the fog of war" a philosophical step further and suggest that warfare takes place beyond the reach of moral reason, in a realm of interest and necessity where moral argument is a pious diversion at best and, at worst, a lethal distraction from the deadly serious business at hand. In some cases, he adds, moral reasoning may require that

1287-477: The word Christophobia , a term coined by the Jewish legal scholar Joseph Weiler , in 2003. Weigel questions whether Europe can give an account of itself while denying the very moral tradition through which its culture arose: "Christians who share this conviction (that it is the will of God that Christians be tolerant of those who have a different view of God's will) – can give an account of their defense of

1326-730: Was installed at St. Michael's Cathedral on 30 January 2007. He served as Chancellor of the University of St. Michael's College and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto. He is heavily involved in the pro-life movement . Collins was elected president of the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2008. Collins was the apostolic visitor to the Archdiocese of Cashel in Ireland following

1365-415: Was "very much a leader of the ultra-conservative wing of the Catholic Church in the United States and has been publicly critical of Your Holiness in the past." He added, "Many of us American bishops would have great concerns about his being named to such a position in which he would have an official voice, in opposition to your teaching." McCarrick indicated he would be happy to discuss the topic further with

1404-489: Was also a member of the organizing committee for World Youth Day 2002 , which was held in Toronto . From 1999 to 2007, he was President of the Alberta Conference of Catholic Bishops. In addition to his duties as ordinary of the Edmonton Archdiocese, he was Apostolic Administrator of Saint Paul in Alberta from 16 March – 8 September 2001. Collins was named the tenth Archbishop of Toronto by Pope Benedict XVI on 16 December 2006. He succeeded Aloysius Ambrozic there and

1443-455: Was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Saint Paul in Alberta by Pope John Paul II . He received his episcopal consecration on the following 14 May, from Bishop Anthony Tonnos , with Bishops Raymond Roy and John Sherlock serving as co-consecrators , at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Hamilton , Ontario . He selected as his episcopal motto : "Deum Adora" , meaning, "Worship God" ( Revelation 22:9 ). Collins succeeded Bishop Roy as

1482-410: Was born and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland , where he attended St. Mary's Seminary and University . In 1975 he received a Master of Arts degree from the University of St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto with a thesis entitled Karl Rahner's Theology of the Incarnation in Light of his Philosophy of Transcendental Anthropology . He has received 18 honorary doctorate degrees, as well as

1521-674: Was held at the University of Toronto (17–18 October 2014). In November 2014, the institute organized "Religion in the Ukrainian Public Square: An Analysis of the Euromaidan and Its Aftermath" featuring presentations by Cyril Hovorun, Igor Shchupak, George Weigel , Victor Ostapchuk and others. Guest lecturers and speakers at the institute have included the renowned Greek Orthodox Theologian Dr. Kyriaki Karidoyanes Fitzgerald, James Payton, Michael Jackson Bonner, Daniel Galadza, Msgr. A. Robert Nusca, Ephraim Radner, Frank Sysyn , Alexander Roman, Fr Geoffrey Ready, Ronald Graner and Victor Malarek . Subject topics and lectures have included Rome &

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