When Sr.Catherine Droste op, Dean of Theology at the Angelicum, teaches the moral theology of St. Thomas Aquinas but interprets Vatican Council II with a false premise and inference, it is unethical.It would also be academically unethical for Prof. Fr. Wojciech Giertych o.p, to reject the strict interpretation of the dogma EENS because of an irrational and deceptive interpretation of Vatican Council II

If Prof. Wojciech Giertych o.p. considers Fr.Leonard Feeney as being right or wrong - either way, Lumen Gentium 8, 14 and 16 in Vatican Council II always refers to a hypothetical case. So it is not a practical exception to Feeneyite extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS) in 2020.

Even if Congar, Rahner and Murray were present at Vatican Council II, UR 3,NA 2 etc  always refer to a hypothetical case.They were not practical exceptions  to the past ecclesiology and an ecumenism of return.

So there is no development of doctrine with Vatican Council II as B.BLANKENHORN O.P  teaches in the second semester at the Angelicum University.1 His course has no theological basis in Vatican Council II.

This semester at the Angelicum when T.F. ROSSI and    B. DEGORSKI teach the new ecumenism  there is no theological basis in Vatican Council II.There is nothing in the Council which says there are personally known Christians  saved in their Christian religion  outside the Catholic Church.This has to wrongly assumed.Once the false inference is made the old ecumenism of return is rejected.

Similarly T. MICHELET, O.P.   and D. AUCONE, O.P. are teaching a new ecclesiology.They presume that LG 8, LG 14 and LG 16 refer to known non Catholics saved outside the Church in the present times (1965-2020).But we know that for us human beings, there can be no known examples of salvation outside the Church. If any one was saved as such it would be known only to God, said a Maronite priest recently in Rome.He agreed with me - there are no known cases of the baptism of desire or being saved in invincible ignorance.

The baptism of desire(BOD),baptism of blood(BOB) and being saved in invincible ignorance(I.I) are "zero cases" in our reality said the American apologist John Martignoni, known for his program on EWTN.

The present Rector of the University of St. Anselm in Rome, Fr.Stefano Visintin osb, agrees with him. This is also the view of Archbishop Thomas E Gullickson, the Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland and Liechtenstein.They e make a common-sense statement which has been corroborated by many priests in Rome,most of them  offer Mass in the vernacular..

When Prof. Francesco Giordono at the Angelicum and  Prof. Sandra Mazzolini at the Urbaniana University, Rome  offer a new course on the Holy Spirit with reference to salvation, it could be an innovation.Since the Holy Spirit cannot make an objective error and project unknown cases of the baptism of desire(LG 14)  and invincible ignorance(LG 16) as being practical exceptions to Feeneyite EENS.

Based on Vatican Council II, it cannot be said, that God wills a pluralism of religions.This is false.Since hypothetical cases in Vatican Council II,   cannot be confused as being objective examples of salvation outside the Church in 1965-2020.

Possibilities of salvation outside the Church, exist only in our mind.They are not real and known people saved without 'faith and baptism'(AG 7).

So when the professors talk about 'practical faith' and 'lived theology' they need to say that all non Catholics are oriented to Hell, unless they accept Jesus in the Catholic Church.The Church is Jesus' Mystical Body, it is the only Ark of Noah that saves in the Flood. Outside the Church there is no known salvation, is also the teaching of Vatican Council II (AG 7).

Practically all adults need the baptism of water with Catholic faith for salvation. Theoretically, in speculation it can be hoped that someone is saved outside the Church.

Dogmatically outside the Church there is no salvation( Cantate Domino, Council of Florence 1441, Ad Gentes 7 etc), sentimentally one can hope that one's friend or relative, who was outside the Church, made it to Heaven.

So when Sr.Catherine Droste op, Dean of Theology at the Angelicum, teaches the moral theology of St. Thomas Aquinas but interprets Vatican Council II with a false premise and inference, it is unethical.It would also be academically unethical for Prof. Fr. Wojciech Giertych o.p, to reject the strict interpretation of the dogma EENS because of an irrational and deceptive interpretation of Vatican Council II.-Lionel Andrades

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ECONDO SEMESTRE – SECOND SEMESTER

CORSI – COURSES

dP 3094 Fundamental Theology: The Development of Doctrine 3 ECTS

This course studies the development of doctrine from a historical and Thomistic perspective.

The course considers the modernist crisis as well as the theories of doctrinal development

proposed by John Henry Newman, Yves Congar and Walter Kasper. The course includes

case studies of specific doctrines, with a focus on development in moral doctrines such as re-

ligious freedom, slavery and the salvation of non-Christians.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Y. CONGAR, La fede e la teologia, Desclée, Rome, 1967; W. KASPER,

The Methods of Dogmatic Theology, New York: Paulist Press, 1967; A. MESZAROS, The

Prophetic Church: History and Doctrinal Development in John Henry Newman and Yves Con-

gar, Oxford Univ. Press, 2016; J. H. NEWMAN, An Essay on the Development of Christian

Doctrine, South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989; J. T. NOONAN, A Church That

Can and Cannot Change, South Bend, Indiana: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2005.

B. BLANKENHORN, O.P. Mon. 14.30-16.15

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TI 2346 “Unità ecumeniche”. Corso di introduzione all’Ecumenismo. 3 ECTS

Come consuetudine il corso sarà organizzato secondo una didattica modulare, i cui moduli

pur costituendosi come unità a sé stanti, si possono concatenare in sequenza. I “Moduli” sono

quattro ; I. Spiritualità (fondazione biblica, cammino di conversione e riconciliazione), II. Storia

(divisioni storiche e Movimento ecumenico), III. Metodo (redazione e interpretazione dei do-

cumenti ecumenici), IV. Sistematica (principi cattolici dell’ecumenismo e contributo della Teo-

logia ecumenica alla teologia).

BIBLIOGRAFIA: i documenti della Chiesa: LG, UR, UUS, Direttorio per l’applicazione dei

principi e delle norme sull’ecumenismo; T.F. ROSSI, Manuale di Ecumenismo, Queriniana,

Brescia 2012.

T.F. ROSSI Mar. 8.30-10.15

dP 2875 Dogma ed ecumenismo: un binomio risolto nella Chiesa delle origini 3 ECTS

Il corso intende rivelare la preoccupazione dei Padri di mantenere l’unità della Chiesa, attra-

verso formulazioni di dogmi adeguate alle diverse correnti teologiche. Si fermerà l’attenzione

sul Primo Concilio di Costantinopoli (381) quale esempio, tuttora valido, di incontro tra defini-

zione del dogma e dialogo ecumenico.

BIBLIOGRAFIA : A. GRILLMEIR, Gesù il Cristo nella fede della Chiesa (Biblioteca teologica,

18-19), Brescia 1982; J.D.N. KELLY, Il pensiero cristiano delle origini, Bologna 1972; M. SI-

MONETTI, La crisi ariana nel IV secolo, Roma 1975; B. STUDER, Dio salvatore nei Padri

della Chiesa, Roma 1986.

B. DEGORSKI Ven. 10.30-12.15

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TE 2379 Ecclesiology. 5 ECTS

After a brief history of ecclesiology, the course will explore the images used in Scripture, Tra-

dition and the Magisterium to express the nature of the Church (People of God, Body of Christ,

Temple of the Spirit, etc.) ; the four properties or “notes” of the Church in the Creed (One,

Holy, Catholic, Apostolic) and several systematic definitions (mystery - sacrament, mystical

person, communion ...). We shall then examine the states of the Church in the history of sal-

vation (Ecclesia ab Abel); and the hierarchical constitution of the Church of Christ, ministries

and states of life, according to the Dogmatic Constitution of the Second Vatican Council on

the Church Lumen Gentium.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: LA SOUJEOLE (de), Benoît-Dominique, O.P., Introduction to the Mystery

of the Church, Washington, D.C., Catholic University of America Press, “Thomistic ressource-

ment series, 3” 2014 ; JOURNET Charles, card., The Theology of the Church, San Francisco,

Ignatius Press, 2004 ; BOUYER Louis, The Church of God - Body of Christ and Temple of the

Spirit, Franciscan Herald Press, 1982 (San Francisco, Ignatius Press, 2011) ; TILLARD, Jean-

Marie Roger, O.P., Church of Churches : the Ecclesiology of Communion, Collegeville (Minn.),

The Liturgical Press, 1992 ; NICHOLS Aidan, O.P., Figuring out the Church, San Francisco,

Ignatius Press, 2013

T. MICHELET, O.P. Mon. 10.30-12.15; Fri. 8.30-9.15

SCL 3276 La fraternità come categoria ecclesiologica 4 ECTS

Utilizzata con frequenza nel Nuovo Testamento come denominazione stessa della comunità

cristiana (philadelphòs), e ricorrente nella letteratura patristica (specie in Tertulliano) come ca-

tegoria privilegiata per esprimere l’autocomprensione ecclesiale, il termine “fraternità” è al

centro di una riscoperta nell’ecclesiologia contemporanea come principio ermeneutico capace

di esprimere il legame egualitario e dipendente da una comune origine, esistente tra i membri

del popolo di Dio. Alla luce delle indicazioni del Magistero di papa Francesco e del recente

documento della Commissione teologica internazionale La sinodalità nella vita e nella missione

della Chiesa (2018), il seminario si propone di verificare la pertinenza del principio “fraternità”

come categoria ermeneutica per esprimere la comunione ecclesiale e di stimolare gli studenti

ad approfondire percorsi in tale direzione in chiave storica e sistematica.

BIBLIOGRAFIA:. FRANCESCO, Esortazione apostolica Evangelii Gaudium, in EV 29 (2013);

COMMISSIONE TEOLOGICA INTERNZAZIONALE, La sinodalità nella vita e nella missione

della Chiesa (2 marzo 2018); J. RATZINGER, La fraternità cristiana, Queriniana, Brescia,

2005; S. DIANICH-C. TORCIVIA, Forme del popolo di Dio tra comunità e fraternità, San Paolo,

Cinisello Balsamo, 2012; C. TORCIVIA (ed.), La Chiesa è una fraternità. Un modo antico e

sempre nuovo di vedere la Chiesa e il mondo, Il Pozzo di Giacobbe, Trapani, 2016.

D. AUCONE, O.P. Gio. 14.30-16.15

From the Handbook of Studies of the Angelicum University 019-2020

TE 1368 Fundamental Moral Theology. 6 ECTS
An introduction to the basic principles of Moral Theology, following the Ia-IIae of the Summa
Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas and the encyclical Veritatis splendor of John Paul II.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: THOMAS AQUINAS, Summa Theologiae, Ia-IIae, q. 106-108; JOHN PAUL
II, Veritatis splendor; S. PINCKAERS, The Sources of Christian Ethics, Washington 1995; L.
MELINA, Sharing Christ’s Virtues, Washington 2001.
W. GIERTYCH, O.P.

TE 2386 Prudence, Fortitude, Temperance. 6 ECTS
After an introductory examination of the historical foundations of the doctrine of the cardinal
virtues, the virtues of prudence, fortitude, and temperance are studied: 1) individually; 2) in
the context of their relationship to other virtues; 3) in their practical bearing on the Christian
life.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: AQUINAS. Summa Theologiae II-IIae, qq47-56; 123-170; LOMBARDO,

O.P. The Logic of Desire: Aquinas on Emotion. Catholic University of America, 2011; MACIN-
TYRE, After Virtue, University of Notre Dame, 1981; PIEPER, The Four Cardinal Virtues, Uni-
versity of Notre Dame, 1966; WESTBURG, Daniel. Right Reason in Action. Oxford, 1994.


C.J. DROSTE, O.P.

TE 1389 Justice and Allied Virtues. 5 ECTS
The course opens with a comparison of God’s justice and human justice. Following this, topics
specifically related to justice include: justice in relation to charity and other Christian virtues;
the notion of “right” in medieval and modern Catholic tradition; society and the common good

in relation to legal, distributive, and commutative justice; specific requirements of justice re-
garding human life, material goods, one’s good name. After treating justice, the allied virtues

are discussed with particular emphasis on religion, the chief of the moral virtues.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY: AQUINAS. Summa Theologiae II-IIae, QQ 57-122; CESSARIO. The Moral
Virtues and Theological Virtues, University of Notre Dame, 2009; MACINTYRE. Whose Justice?
Which Rationality? University of Notre Dame, 1988. Peschke. Christian Ethics, vol. II, UK,
1997; PIEPER. The Four Cardinal Virtues, University of Notre Dame, 1966.
C.J. DROSTE, O.P.

mP 1950 Gli aspetti essenziali della morale fondamentale di san Tommaso d’Aquino/
The Essential Aspects of the Moral Theology According to
St Thomas Aquinas. 3 ECTS
Il corso è indirizzato come obbligatorio a coloro che non hanno mai studiato la morale di san
Tommaso d’Aquino, e a tutti coloro che vogliono approfondire gli argomenti morali già appresi.

Il corso sarà offerto in italiano e in inglese per dare la possibilità di frequentarlo a tutti gli stu-
denti interessati/ The course is obligatory for students who have never studied the moral theo-
logy of Thomas Aquinas. All others who wish to deepen their understanding of moral

arguments are welcome to follow the course. The course is offered in Italian or English to
allow all interested students to participate.
BIBLIOGRAFIA / BIBLIOGRAPHY: TOMMASO D’AQUINO, Summa Teologica 1-2, 1-106.

Ulteriore bibliografia verrà segnalata dai Docenti durante lo svolgimento del corso/ An exten-
ded bibliography will be provided by the Professor during the course.

R. RYBKA, O.P./C.J. DROSTE, O.P.



TM25 Fundamental Moral Theology 3 ECTS
This course studies the theological and philosophical basis of Christian morality as a “call to

perfection” (Mt 5:48). In the light of this “call”, the general principles of moral theology are in-
vestigated according to the teaching of the Catholic Church.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: ST THOMAS AQUINAS, Summa Theologiae I-II; CATECHISM OF THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH: Part III, Life in Christ http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/; CESSARIO
R, O.P. , The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics, Univ. of Notre Dame, 2009; CESSARIO R.,
The Virtues, or the Examined Life, Continuum 2002; CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE
OF THE FAITH, Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions, 8 September

2008: http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/cdfdigpersbio.htm; Ample bibliography will be pro-
vided during the course.


C.J. DROSTE, O.P.