About The Institute
Who We Are: A Catholic Institute for Truth & Charity
Vox Christi is a Catholic educational Institute devoted to forming the mind & heart of Catholics through in-person and online events. Our events center on the Catholic Intellectual inheritance. The Institute exists to help Catholics hear the voice of Christ and discover the riches of the Catholic faith.
Mission Statement
The mission of the Vox Christi Institute is to serve the renewal of Catholic life by bringing serious, faithful, and accessible formation into the heart of Catholic communities. Vox Christi seeks to help Catholics hear the voice of Christ, grow in their understanding of the faith, and bear witness to the truth in their families, parishes, workplaces, and public life.
Vision
Our vision is a community renewed by the voice of Christ: parishes alive with serious formation and spiritual depth; families strengthened by the riches of the Catholic tradition; and lay Catholics equipped to unite faith and reason, prayer and study, truth and charity, contemplation and witness. Vox Christi seeks to help Catholic communities become true schools of wisdom, communion, and holiness.1
“and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” —John 8:32
What We Do
Form the Catholic Mind
Send Witnesses into the World
Cultivate a Catholic Life
“For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” — 1 Cor. 3:11
Vox Christi Institute Foundations
The work of the Vox Christi Institute built on six foundations of Catholic formation: faith and reason; Scripture and Tradition; prayer and Communion.
Faith
Rooted in St. Anselm’s phrase fides quaerens intellectum, Vox Christi seeks to form Catholics whose faith is thoughtful, articulate, and ordered toward the truth of Christ.
Reason
“Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature… has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made.” (Rom. 1:20). Creation bears witness to its Creator, and reason can perceive the traces of God in the order, beauty, and intelligibility of the world.
Scripture
The Word of God does not merely inform the mind; it breaks open and cultivates the heart. St. John Cassian describes meditating on scripture as a Gospel Plough that turns up the soil of the Heart so that the Seed of the Word may bear fruit.
Tradition
“For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you” (1 Cor. 11:23). The Catholic faith is a living inheritance, received from the apostles, handed on through the centuries, and protected by the One, Holy, Catholic, & Apostolic Church.
Prayer
“If you are a theologian, you will pray truly; and if you pray truly, you are a theologian.” Theology cannot be separated from prayer, worship, conversion, and holiness. The knowledge of God must be sought before God.
Communion
“That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us” (1 John 1:3). Catholic formation is not private consumption of religious content, but shared life in the communion of the Church, with Jesus Christ as our Head.
Our Team
Dominic V. Cassella
Executive Director & Senior Fellow
Dominic V. Cassella is a doctoral candidate in historical and systematic theology at The Catholic University of America, where he received his M.Phil. in 2025. He holds an M.A. in Dogmatic Theology from the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius (2022) and a B.A. from Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (2018).
Following his undergraduate studies, he spent four years organizing lectures and other programs for Thomas More College’s Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture. He has taught at Christendom College and at The Catholic University of America, and has led the parish Scripture study at St. Raymond of Peñafort Catholic Church. He serves as an editorial assistant and occasional contributor to The Catholic Thing. His work in Catholic media and education extends to earlier positions as a videographer for the Orientale Lumen Foundation (beginning 2010) and as a volunteer with the Institute of Catholic Culture (beginning 2012).
Daniel J. Leahy
Director of Advancement & Senior Fellow
Daniel J. Leahy is completing doctoral studies in philosophy at the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, the only graduate program in the United States devoted specifically to the philosophical thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. His research addresses the metaphysics and moral philosophy of Aquinas and the broader Thomistic tradition. He holds an M.A. in Philosophy from the Center for Thomistic Studies and a B.A. from Thomas More College of Liberal Arts.
He teaches undergraduate philosophy at the University of St. Thomas. His work seeks to recover the Catholic intellectual tradition as a living resource for the formation of the faithful, and to make its central texts and questions accessible to readers beyond the academy.
Our Logo
The logo of the Vox Christi Institute depicts the mystery of the Transfiguration. Christ stands radiant upon Mount Tabor, with Moses and Elijah beside Him and the apostles below. It is on the mountain where we receive the explicit command to listen to the Voice of Christ (Vox Christi), when the Father commands: “This is my beloved Son… listen to him” (Mt. 17:5; Mk. 9:7; Lk. 9:35; 2 Pet. 1:17).
In St. John’s Gospel, we learn that the Vox Christi is the voice of Truth itself when Jesus tells Pilate, “Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice” (Jn. 18:37), and in preparation of his saving sacrifice, Christ prays, “Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth” (Jn. 17:17), and He reveals himself as “the way, and the truth, and the life” (Jn. 14:6).
The logo is meant to recall this mystery and to remind all of us who work with the Institute that Jesus Christ, the Truth, is our only Teacher. Our work begins by listening to Him and continues by helping others hear His voice through Scripture & Tradition, Faith & Reason, Prayer & the life of the Church.
Help More Souls Hear the Voice of Christ
“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.” — St. John Paul II, Fides et Ratio (1998)
The Vox Christi Institute serves the Church by sharing the Catholic intellectual and spiritual tradition — its Scripture, theology, philosophy, history, and spiritual writing — with the laity, clergy, and parish communities who carry it forward. Through public lectures, parish formation programs, and published resources, the Institute forms Catholics whose faith is at once thoughtful and prayerful, rigorous and lived.
- “To make the Church the home and the school of communion
: that is the great challenge facing us in the millennium which is now beginning, if we wish to be faithful to God’s plan and respond to the world’s deepest yearnings.” —St. John Paul II, Novo Millennio Ineunte (2000) ↩︎