ISSR Mater Ecclesiae

The Superior Institute of Religious Sciences Mater Ecclesiae, connected to the Faculty of Theology of the PUST, is a school of theological training where one trains to think about faith, to exercise believing reason. Since the commitment to think, to love, to hope is necessarily exercised in harmony with the places and times in which believers live the human and religious experience, the Mater Ecclesiae Institute is attentive to the need to give a universal breath to the activity of Training; this is guaranteed by the international character of the staff of the Institute's teachers and students. The Mater Ecclesiae is interested in current or frontier religious and cultural issues, in order to foster mutual understanding between Christians, between them and those belonging to other religions,between believers and people who are in search of the truth. Therefore, in addition to the courses provided for the formation of men and women religious, catechists, pastoral workers, courses of ongoing formation and / or theological-pastoral updating, or of an intercultural or interreligious nature, are offered.

The Angelicum’s mission is to form students as virtuous leaders, capable of evangelization and promoting integral human development, illuminated by the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas.

The Angelicum offers a university education where faith and reason work together. It forms students as virtuous leaders, capable of evangelization and promoting integral human development. Illuminating the present by the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas, students, professors, and staff share in Dominican study, prayer, community, and preaching.