2016 Archbishop J Michael Miller Lecture: There Is No Mercy from a Distance: Pope Francis as Vicar of Mercy

University of St. Thomas presents the 2016 Archbishop J. Michael Miller Lecture: There Is No Mercy from a Distance: Pope Francis as Vicar of Mercy Thursday, March 31 in Cullen Hall. Featuring Dr. John P. O’Callaghan.

John O’Callaghan, associate professor of Philosophy and Director of the Jacques Maritain Center at the University of Notre Dame, was educated at St. Norbert College where he majored in physics and mathematics, and the University of Notre Dame (PhD, 1996), where he studied philosophy, writing on the philosophical work of Thomas Aquinas.

He has taught at Creighton University, the University of Portland, and the University of Notre Dame. He has written or edited a number of books and articles in the area of Thomistic studies, including Thomist Realism and the Linguistic Turn (2003), and Recovering Nature (with Thomas Hibbs, 1999).

He has served as the president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and is a permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas (PASTA)