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Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P.
Fr. Kevin Gabriel Gillen, O.P., was ordained to the priesthood in 2000, Fr. Gillen joined the Order of Preachers in 2005 after earning degrees from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, commonly known as the Angelicum, in Rome. Prior to answering the call to priesthood he worked several years as a stock broker on Wall Street. Fr. Gillen is currently assigned to Saint Joseph in Greenwich Village, New York City, where he serves to promote evangelization through media for the Province and hosts the weekly program “Word to Life” on The Catholic Channel, Sirius 159 and XM 117.
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"Christianity - Alien Presence or Foundation of the West?"
A Lecture by Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, O.P.
Posted by Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P. on March 01, 2010
The video above contains a brief excerpt (full video here) of the lecture Cardinal Schönborn of Vienna delivered on February 3 at The Catholic University of America. Reflecting on man's possession of freedom, a great gift given him by God, Cardinal Schonborn encourages his listeners, if they want to understand better the connection between divine and human freedom, to read the prologue to the secunda pars of St. Thomas's Summa Theologiae, which states:
"Since, as Damascene states (De Fide Orthod. ii. 12), man is said to be made to God's image, in so far as the image implies an intelligent being endowed with free-will and self-movement: now that we have treated of the exemplar, i.e., God, and of those things which came forth from the power of God in accordance with His will; it remains for us to treat of His image, i.e., man, inasmuch as he too is the principle of his actions, as having free-will and control of his actions."