Raphaela Schmid

Becket Institute
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Raphaela Maria Schmid is a Senior Fellow of the Becket Institute.

She was educated in Munich, Madrid, Rome, and Oxford and is presently professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Faculty Auxilium in Rome. She has published on matters relating to church-state conflicts, from medieval political thought to the problem of same-sex unions.

At Oxford University, she tutored and lectured in philosophy and medieval theology while successively also holding the positions of Graduate and Junior Research Fellow of the Becket Institute. As the Institute’s research coordinator she convened the Becket Institute Seminars at St Hugh’s College which brought together, uniquely for Oxford at the time, scholars from around the world to discuss religious freedom.

In 2005 she returned to Rome to teach at the Gregorian University and set up the Istituto Becket, where she served as director from 2005-2007. As the academic branch of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the Becket Institute in Rome began to explore ways beyond the conventionally academic to educate a wider public about contemporary problems of religious liberty.

Raphaela has authored the television documentaries “The Da Vinci Files” (2005), “Turkey at the Gates of Europe: a religious portrait” (2006) and “God in China. The struggle for religious freedom” (2007), which have been broadcast by commercial and public television stations around the world.