16 researchers have defended their thesis in the Schools Ecclesiastical of the University of Navarra from June 2012 until the doctoral inauguration ceremony of the 2012-2013 academic year, held on June 7, 2013.

Specifically, 9 correspond to the School of Theology, 5 a Ecclesiastical Theology of Philosophy and 2 to the Canon Law. They come from 10 countries: Spain, Kenya, Poland, Mexico, Uganda, USA, Italy, Benin, Brazil and Peru.

The patron of this class of new doctoral graduates was the Dean the Ecclesiastical School of Philosophy, José Ángel García Cuadrado. In his remarks, he noted that "completing a doctorate the culmination of a long-term effort, Exempt not Exempt which has ultimately been successfully overcome." The doctorate a certain triumph, a victory: this is the meaning behind the ‘Victor’ in the new doctor’s name, which was once painted on the walls of universities as an example and inspiration for future generations.”

Professor García Cuadrado reminded the new graduating class that their "triumph" is also the result of the support and work of other people. First of all, he mentioned the University's auxiliary staff -librarians, janitors, assistants at laboratory, cleaning ladies...- and the association de Amigos, which provides scholarships for the training of new researchers. He also recalled the teachers, "who always teach: in the masterly lesson and in the interview in which they correct with rigor, care and patience the chapters of the thesis that are taking shape as a well-made work ".

Finally, he referred to the "debt of gratitude" owed to your parents: "They have taught you the essentials of human life: to seek and speak the truth, to love the work well finished, the value of each person, the need to be grateful, to forgive and to ask for forgiveness. All this has made you more human and for this reason they too have earned, in a way, the degree scroll of Doctors of Humanity".

In total, 200 people from 22 countries have defended the thesis at the University during this period. They belong to 14 Schools, schools and institutes.

The new doctors of the Schools Ecclesiastics

School of Canon Law

Vicente Borja Dosdá (Spain): 'La desamortización eclesiástica del clero secular en la Diócesis de Segorbe-Castellón. Juridical-patrimonial consequences'.

Mark Kimani Muhoro (Kenya): 'From the offense against the sixth to Delicta Graviora: the evolution of the offense committed with a minor in light of the American experience'.

School of Theology

Enrique Alonso de Velasco Esteban (Spain): 'The Reception of the encyclical "Humanae Vitae" in the catholic environment of the Netherlands'.

Pawel Blazewicz (Poland): 'The spiritual ethos in the Adolescents of St. Basil of Caesarea. A philological approach'.

Alejandro Córdova Suárez (Mexico): 'La fundamentación teológica de la moral social en los manuales postconciliares' (The theological foundation of social morality in postconciliar manuals).

Ana Cristina Manso Rodríguez Rodríguez (Spain): 'Dei Verbum and the critical hermeneutic-pragmatic tradition'.

Baltasar Moros Claramunt (Spain): 'Las Cofradías de la Sangre en el Reino de Valencia'.

Kanyike Ivan Mukalazi (Uganda): 'The Theology of Faith of Avery Dulles'.

Jesús Nuñez Valero (Spain): 'The studiositas and its place in the Christian organism of virtues'.

Christopher Edward Smith (USA): 'Surnaturel Revisited: Henri de Lubac's theology of the supernatural in contemporary theology'.

Piero Vavassori (Italy): 'Bioetica aica e bioetica cattolica. Teologia morale e questioni bioetiche'.

Ecclesiastical School of Philosophy

Mahougnon Janvier Gbenou (Benin): 'Tocqueville et la communauté internationale démocratique. Étude de l'idée d'humanité au travers deses écrits'.

Augusto Cesar Heluy Dantas (Brazil): 'The Philosophy of Arthur Peackocke'.

Rubén Herce Fernández (Spain): 'La proposal heurística e Roger Penrose. In search of the instructions of consciousness'.

Crispus Kinuthia Kinyanjui (Kenya): 'The Metaphysics of the Divine Creation. A consideration of the First Principles of Creation in Aquinas'.

Antonio Ñahuincopa Arango (Peru): 'The immortality of the soul in Aristotle according to baroque scholasticism: Domíngo Báñez, Francisco de Toledo and Francisco Suárez'.