Fr. Prof. Eammon O'Higgins
Fr. Eamonn O'Higgins, LC is a full-time professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, where he currently teaches moral and political philosophy as well as courses on contemporary political philosophers and the political thought of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI. He studied an Honours degree in Law at Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland) and philosophy and theology at the Gregorian University and at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. He was ordained priest in 1994, and is also a spiritual Father at Mater Ecclesiae College and manager of the Vatican (St. Peter’s) Cricket Team. His most recent publication is Person-centered Politics: A Personalist Approach to Politics, Hamilton Books (Rowman & Littlefield), MD 2024.
All politics is an expression of the meaning and purpose of human life in society, and it is necessary to clarify what this expression of meaning and purpose is, both what contemporary forms of politics assume social life to be, and what in reality human society should look like or aspire to.