Enrique Colom Costa (August 6, 1941) is a Spanish-born naturalised Chilean Catholic priest and theologian.
Enrique Colom was born in Alicante, Spain on 6 August 1941. He is an industrial engineer (1965) from the Technical University of Madrid, and a doctor in industrial engineering (1971) from the Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona (nowadays Polytechnic University of Catalonia).
He was ordained priest of the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, on 4 August 1974. [1]
The following year, he obtained the Doctorate in Theology in the University of Navarra.
He was among the professors who began, in 1984, the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, where he taught Moral Theology from 1985 to 2011. [2] During his years at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross he served as Dean of the Theology Department and Director of Studies.
He was appointed an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas in 2002, a Consultor of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in 2003, and a counselor of the Apostolic Penitentiary in 2010.
Colom is an author of several books on Moral Theology and Catholic social teaching. He also contributed as an editor to the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church. Together with Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, he was coordinator of Dictionary of the Social Doctrine of the Church, which has been described as a "common spelling book" in the face of "illiteracy on the basic categories of the social doctrine of the Church." [3]
Colom was a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Observatory Card. Van Thuân which promotes the social doctrine of the Church at an international level. [4]
In 2011 he moved from Italy to Chile and started a collaboration with the University of the Andes, Chile. [5]
He is a naturalised Chilean.
Colom wrote some articles about Moral Theology and the Catholic social teaching in "Scripta Theologica" (Pamplona), "Gran Enciclopedia Rialp" (Madrid), "Annales Theologici" (Roma), "Filosofar Cristiano" (Córdoba, Argentina) and "Tierra Nueva" (Bogotá), among others.
He also collaborated in numerous works such as:
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