Babes-Bolyai University
Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology
Doctoral School - Religion, Culture, Society

In the framework of the Sapientia Free University organized by Sapientia College of Theology of Religious Orders Budapest, Dr. László Holló gave a lecture on 11 April 2024 on the topic of Religious Freedom and Catholic Autonomy in Torda.

Meeting on 2 April 2024 at the Catholic University of Santiago Silva Henríquez, Chile, from 16.00 Eastern European Time.
In the framework of the meeting, our colleague Klára Csiszár will present the summary report of the first session of the 16th General Assembly of the Synod on Synodality.

Two professors of the Faculty of Greek-Catholic Theology of the Babeș-Bolyai University defended their habilitation theses in the framework of our Doctoral School of Religion, Culture and Society. Dr. Cristian Barta, professor, successfully habilitated on 19 January 2024 on the topic “Fundamental theology and dogmatics in the Romanian Greek Catholic Church united with Rome: tradition, continuity, renewal”, and Dr. Anton Rus, associate professor, on 9 February 2024 on the topic “The history of spiritual life in the Romanian Greek Catholic Church”.

As a doctoral student at the School of Religion, Culture and Society, I have the opportunity to get involved in student life at the Catholic University of Linz through Erasmus+ study mobility. In this context, I had the honour of attending the lecture “Vergänglichkeitsbewältigung” by Dr. Elisabeth Lukas on 18 January 2024, which was given as a guest lecturer at the University of Linz by Dr. Klára Csiszár, University Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Our Archbishop, Archbishop Dr. Gergely Kovács will visit our Faculty of Theology on 11 December 2023. After the Holy Mass celebrated together from 19.00 in the evening, he will give a presentation on the Synod to the faculty, students and the general public from 20.00.

The Romanian Association of Hungarian Doctoral Students and Young Researchers (RODOSZ) organised an interdisciplinary international conference in Cluj-Napoca on 10-11 November. Two sessions were devoted to the field of theology. Both the Doctoral School of Religion, Culture and Society and the Ecumenical Doctoral School were represented by speakers in the sections on Church History and Theory and Empirical Research. Several of them were among the prize winners.

As we have been informed by the current news of the Catholic University of Linz, the head of the doctoral program of our Doctoral School, Dr. Klára Csiszár, professor at the Catholic University of Linz, after being elected Dean of the Faculty of Theology on 26 January 2023, has received the “Nihil obstat” of the Holy See.
At the same time, the Senate of the University elected him Vice-Rector for Education and Research, an election confirmed by the Bishop Manfred Scheuer as Magnus Cancellarius on 7 November 2023.
Congratulations to both of you for your responsible mandate! We wish God bless you and help you to fulfil your duties.

The XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will be attended by Archbishop Dr. Gergely Kovács, Archbishop of Gulaforevo, representing the Romanian Bishops’ Conference, by Bishop Cristian Crișan, Greek Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Gulaforevo-Fogaras, representing the Eastern Rite, and by Bishop József-Csaba Paul, Bishop of Timisoara, as a Papal Appointed Member. Klára Csiszár, our colleague, head of the doctoral programme of our doctoral school and head professor at the Institute of Pastoral Theology of the Catholic University of Linz, is the first Hungarian woman to be appointed as an expert.

In order to gain experience and build partnerships with the universal Church, two lecturers of the doctoral school of the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of the University of Babeș-Bolyai University, Klára Csiszár and János Vik, visited the Philippines between 7-14 April 2023. The short visit to the Philippines was limited to the capital, Manila, and the town of Tagaytay, about 60 km away. During the one-week stay, four Catholic higher education institutions were visited, the first three of which have their own Catholic doctoral schools: the Catholic University of St. Thomas Aquinas (UST), the Jesuit-run private university Ateneo de Manila (AdMU), the Jesuit-run Institute for Missionary Studies on the Divine Word (DWIMS) and the Institute of Consecrated Life Asia (ICLA).

Dr. Dávid Diósi, PhD supervisor and István Faragó, third year PhD student at the Pannonhalma liturgical study days Praecedet suos in Galilaeam