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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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Click above to watch the first part of a lecture delivered by Fr. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P., on "Virtue Ethics in Bioscience," which was presented March 2nd at the Linacre Forum in London.
On March 6th, Fr. Austriaco addressed the Fifth Annual Aquinas Colloquium at Blackfriars, Oxford. The colloquium, entitled "Body, Soul and Mind: Aquinas and Modern Developments in Biotechnology and Neuroscience," focused on St. Thomas's distinctive account of body and soul in light of the questions posed by modern scientific developments, and it explored how Aquinas's anthropology might continue to provide resources for contemporary philosophical and theological discussion. Fr. Austriaco's talk was entitled "The Soul and Its Inclinations: A Systems Perspective."