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Rev. Kevin Flannery S.J.

STL DPhil

The Rev. Kevin Flannery S.J. is Professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, a Catholic moral philosopher, and author. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1977, and has served as a Consultor of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith since 2002.

Prof. Flannery has been a member of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas since 2004, and is a past-president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. He was appointed as the holder of Creighton’s Anna and Donald Waite Endowed Chair in Jesuit Education for the 2020–2021 academic year.

Sincerest Thanks for Your Support

Staff are grateful to all those who sustained the Centre in the past by their prayers and the generous financial support from trusts, organisations, communities and especially from individual donors, including the core funding that came through the Day for Life fund and so from the generosity of many thousands of parishioners. We would finally like to acknowledge the support the Centre has received from the Catholic community in Ireland, especially during the pandemic when second collections were not possible.

We would like to emphasise that, though the Centre is now closed, these donations have not been wasted but have helped educate and support generations of conscientious healthcare professionals, clerics, and lay people over almost 50 years. This support has also helped prevent repeated attempts to legalise euthanasia or assisted suicide in Britain and Ireland from 1993 till the end of the Centre’s work on 31 July 2025.