D.P. Curtin
D.P. Curtin is an Irish-American antiquarian and translator from in Richboro, Penna. There he attended a local parochial grade school in Southampton, and later Archbishop Wood Catholic High School in Warminster, Penna.
He has obtained his BA from Villanova University in 2007 in Theological Studies, a Masters degree from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA in 2014, and a doctoral degree from Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA in 2024. His doctoral thesis can be found here. He is also involved in the local Augustinian community and currently serves as the Scholar-in-Residence for the Third Order of the Order of St. Augustine (St. Thomas of Villanova Province). In the past, Dr. Curtin has held fellowships with: the Academy of Philosophy & Letters, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, the Pittsburgh Foundation, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
His work as editor-in-Chief of the Scriptorium Project began as an undergraduate student at Villanova University, within the special collections at the (Old) Falvey Memorial Library, which then housed a considerable Latin & Greek patristics collection. Originally under the tutelage of Fr. Thomas Martin OSA, the collection began as a small smattering of sundry works from Latin texts, then largely unavailable, but has subsequently expanded to a large library of texts. Many works are derived from the archival manuscripts pioneered by the Italian philologist Giovanni Mansi and the scholar Jacques-Paul Migne, SJ.
Recent articles:
Public Discourse (Witherspoon Institute at Princeton University)
The Moral Limits the State Cannot Create- 4/19/2026
‘Human Dignity without Metaphysics?’- July 2026
First Things (Institute of Religion & Public Life)
When the Bells Stop Ringing- 3/12/2026
‘The Demise of the African Church’- August 2026
Providence Magazine (Institute on Religion & Democracy)
Speakers of Jesus’s Native Tongue: Syriac Christians & the Endurance of an Ancient Faith- 6/1/2026
Hagia Sophia: the Persistence of Sacred Memory and Conflict- 3/10/2026
VogelinView (Eric Vogelin Society at Yale University)
The Medieval Roots of Modern Psychology- 2/20/2026
Nikos Kazantzakis: Lawyer, Author, Intellectual Terrorist- 3/24/2026
The University before the University- 6/16/2026
The Irish Catholic (Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Armagh)
Lost Books of the Irish Church- 3/5/2026
In Search of St. Olan the Egyptian- 1/22/2026
Public Orthodoxy (Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University)
The Life of St. Simeon, a Cure for the Moral Pretensions of Our Time- 1/16/2026
‘Sisters of Christ: Historical Shadows, Apocryphal Accounts, and Early Church Tradition’- July 2026
Covenant- The Living Church (Protestant Episcopal Church of America)
City of God: St. Augustine’s Political Psychology- 3/9/2026
Martin Center for Academic Renewal (University of North Carolina)
Great Literature Is Inherently Moral- 6/26/2026
Homiletic & Pastoral Review (Ignatius Press)
‘The Divine Ambivalence’- July 2026
Law & Liberty (The Liberty Fund Foundation)
‘Erasmus’ in Praise of Folly at 500’- July 2026
Eureka Street (Society of Jesus- Australia)
A Short History of the Deaconess- 6/16/2026
Touchstone Magazine: A Journal of Mere Christianity (Fellowship of St. James)
‘Prefigurations of Christ in Ancient Persia’- December 2026
The University Bookman (Russell Kirk Center)
‘Book Review: An Augustinian Spiritual Primer’- TBD
Front Porch Republic (Wipf & Stock Publishing)
‘The Ghosts of New Sweden’- July 2025
Catholic Exchange (Sophia Institute Press)
Love Has No Why- 6/19/2026
The Resurgence of the Dominican Sisters- 5/13/2026
Why Did God Create the World?- Catholic Exchange (3/2/2026)
The Forgotten Wisdom of John Scotus Eriugena- Catholic Exchange (1/26/2026)
The Unbounding Spiritual Merits of Slowness- Catholic Exchange (12/16/2025)
Having Faith in the Age of Anxiety- Catholic Exchange (11/19/2025)
Evil is not the Opposite of Good, it is the Opposite of Truth- Catholic Exchange (10/10/2025)
Liguori Magazine (Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer)
‘St. Augustine & the Art of Happiness’- TBD 2027
Crisis Magazine (Sophia Institute Press)
The Collapse of the Byzantine Catholic Church- 3/16/2026
Catholic Insight (Life Ethics Center)
The Unity of Contraries in Christianity- 4/18/2026
How Byzantine Spirituality Speaks to the Contemporary West- 2/25/2026
Catholic Stand
Blessed William Tirry: Friar, Fugitive, Martyr- 2/24/2026
The Silent Ambition of the Virgin Mary- 11/13/2025
Real Clear Religion
The Closure of the World’s Oldest Monastery- 1/9/2026
Where Peter Is
The Mystery of a Place Called ‘Nazareth’- 12/19/2025