Pontifical St. Thomas Aquinas University
ISSR Mater Ecclesiae
Rome, Italy
Master degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Italian
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2026
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: ISSR Mater Ecclesiae (Superior Institute of Religious Sciences), linked to the Faculty of Theology of the PUST, trains students to think faithfully and exercise believing reason. The institute combines Dominican study, prayer, community and preaching with Thomistic wisdom. It has international faculty and students and addresses contemporary religious, intercultural and interreligious issues, offering formation for religious, catechists and pastoral workers and theological-pastoral updating.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue roles as pastoral workers, catechists, parish ministers, religious educators, interreligious dialogue facilitators, theological researchers or NGO or missionary staff, including parish ministry, chaplaincy, education and intercultural outreach and academic teaching roles.
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.
