The Idea of a University: Catholics in Modern Education | Tracey Rowland & Fr. Guy Nicholls

"The Idea of a University: Catholics in Modern Education" Tracey
Rowland (University of Notre Dame, Australia; International
Theological Commission) Response: Fr. Guy Nicholls, Cong. Orat.
These talks were given as part of the Thomistic Institute
Conference "Newman the Prophet: A Saint for Our Times" which was
part of the official program for the canonization weekend of John
Henry Cardinal Newman and held at the Angelicum in Rome on October
12 2019. Professor Rowland's primary degrees were in law and
government from the University of Queensland. She then completed a
Bachelor of Letters in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne
and a Master of Arts degree in political philosophy, also from the
University of Melbourne, along with a Graduate Diploma in German
language, and the Goethe Institute's Certificate of German as a
foreign language. She then won a Commonwealth Scholarship to
Cambridge University where she wrote her doctoral dissertation on
twentieth century theological engagements with the idea of culture,
with reference to the philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre and the
theology of Henri de Lubac and Joseph Ratzinger. In 2001 she was
appointed the Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and
Family in Melbourne, a position she held until 2017. During this
period she also completed the pontifical degrees, a Licentiate in
Sacred Theology and a Doctorate in Sacred Theology, both from the
Lateran. Father Guy Nicholls, holds a first degree in Classics from
Cambridge, an STL from the Gregorian University, Rome, and a D.Phil
from Oxford. He is a priest of the Birmingham Oratory and the
Founder and Director of the John Henry Newman Institute of
Liturgical Music, and a Lecturer at Oscott College, the Birmingham
Diocesan Seminary. He has co-authored a volume on Blessed Cardinal
Newman as an educator in the Continuum Library of Educational
Thought, and has contributed articles to many journals on a wide
variety of liturgical subjects. He is presently preparing for
publication a book on Cardinal Newman’s aesthetics, Unearthly
Beauty.