John Paul II Institute

The institute views that it centers its study of the person in the community that is the original cell of human society: marriage and family.

It falls under the authority of the Grand Chancellor and president at the Roman session of the institute, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia and Monsignor Philippe Bordeyne, respectively.

[1] The Washington session offers programs leading to the pontifical degrees of Doctor and Licentiate of Sacred Theology with special emphasis in marriage and family studies.

The institute engages this cultural study in light of the history of the Church and Christian thought, with special attention to the writings of the Second Vatican Council and Pope John Paul II.

The faculty also joined that of the worldwide Institute to contribute to a 2006 collection of essays entitled The Way of Love reflecting on Pope Benedict XVI's first encyclical, Deus caritas est.