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Kevin Gabriel Gillen, O.P. was raised in Rockaway Beach, NY, the third of 4 children. In 1989 he received a B.A. in liberal Arts and a minor in Business Management from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and worked several years as a stock broker on Wall Street. In 1993 he began discerning a priestly vocation and studied philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville. In 1996 chose to enter the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (S.O.L.T.) and studied theology in Kenya and Italy. He was ordained in Subiaco, Italy on June 24, 2000. He studied under Dominicans at the Angelicum in Rome where he obtained the S.T.B., M.A.. While in Rome, he discerned a call to transfer to the Order of Preachers. After completing the novitiate in 2006 he spent one year at the Dominican House of Studies in D.C. and then was assigned as a Parochial Vicar at Saint Catherine of Siena Church in New York City serving also as part time chaplain at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, the Hospital for Special Surgery. 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.
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Thomistic Circles is a work of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies, in Washington, D.C. Serving as a forum for the exchange of theological and philosophical ideas, it seeks to consider contemporary cultural and intellectual issues from within the Thomistic tradition. As a work of the faculty, it involves collaboration from a variety of scholars from other institutions as well, and invites the participation of students at the PFIC, as well as outside guests who wish to register. It is a series of events meant to facilitate the development of the Thomistic Institute at the Dominican House of Studies.
Thomistic Circles Schedule, Academic Year 2009-2010
September 24, 2009
Honorary Lecture by Dr. Alasdair MacIntyre
"What Should a Philosophical Education be Nowadays ?"
Dominican House of Studies, 7 PM
October 16-17, 2009
"Thomism and the Renewal of Contemporary Theology"
A Theological Conference
Fr. Richard Schenk, O.P. (DSPT, Berkeley, CA)
Fr. Romanus Cessario, O.P. (St. John's Seminary, Boston)
Dr. Rudi Te Velde (University of Amsterdam)
Dr. Matthew Levering (University of Dayton)
Dr. Reinhard Hütter (Duke Divinity School)
Dr. Bruce D. Marshall (Perkins School of Theology at SMU, Dallas)
Dr. Greg La Nave (PFIC, Washington, D.C.),
Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. (PFIC, Washington, D.C.).
February 19-20, 2010
"Secularism and the Natural Desire to Know God"
A Theological Conference
Keynote Address: His Eminence Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I.
Fr. John Corbett, O.P. (PFIC, Washington, D.C.)
Dr. Russell Hittinger (Warren Chair of Catholic Studies, University of Tulsa)
Dr. Paul Griffiths (Warren Chair of Catholic Studies, Duke Divinity School)
Dr. Bruce D. Marshall (Perkins School of Theology at SMU, Dallas)
Dr. Reinhard Hütter (Duke Divinity School)
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