On Friday, April 1st, and Saturday, April 2nd, the Cornelio Fabro Cultural Project, together with the Catholic University of America, held the first ever Fabro Symposium in the United States.

April 1

Introduction by Dr. John McCarthy, dean of the School of Philosophy

Introductory panel

“A Brief Biography of Cornelio Fabro”
Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE

“Cornelio Fabro’s Intellectual Trajectory”
Fr. Gianluca Trombini, IVE

“Cornelio Fabro, A Stigmatine Devoted to His Founder”
Fr. Joseph Henchey, CSS

“Cornelio Fabro on Participation and Aquinas’s ‘Quarta via.’”
Msgr. John Wippel, Catholic University of America

“Fabro’s Double Participation and Aquinas’s Double Exemplarism”
Dr. Gregory Doolan, Catholic University of America

April 2

“Thomas Aquinas and Cornelio Fabro: The Metaphysics of Participation and the Theology of Grace”
Fr. Jason Mitchell, Gannon University

“The Impact of Søren Kierkegaard on Cornelio Fabro”
Dr. Joshua Furnal, Radboud University Nijmegen

“God in Exile: An Introduction to Cornelio Fabro’s Appraisal of Modern Thought”
Dr. Patricia Pintado

During the event, the first publications in English were also made available: the first volume of the Selected Works of Cornelio Fabro: Selected Articles of Metaphysics and Participation and Introduction to Cornelio Fabro, an English translation of the work In Memoriam by Fr. Elvio Fontana, IVE.