Queen’s University Belfast

A lecture by Sr. Catherine Joseph Droste, O.P. (Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas)

Tuesday, November 26

6:30 PM

Maths and Physics Teaching Centre, Room 006

This lecture is free and open to the public

About the speaker:

Sister Catherine Joseph Droste, O.P., is a member of the Congregation of St. Cecilia, Nashville, Tennessee. She currently serves as Professor of theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), where she also held roles as Vice Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Theology, and Director of Collaboration. Her areas of research include virtues and the moral life, the ecclesiology of religious life, and the theology of St. Catherine of Siena. Her recent publications include: “The Conformity between Ius as the Object of Justice and the Virtue of Charity according to Aquinas” in The Concept of Ius and the Nature of Law in Thomas Aquinas (CUA, 2024); “Forming Conscience in a Contemporary World: Aquinas’s Teaching on the Gifts of Wisdom and Counsel,” Philippiniana Sacra (2024).