Date |
Time |
Event |
Location |
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April 12 |
7:30 PM |
Welcome
Barbara Wall, PhD, Vice President for Mission and Ministry, Villanova University
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St. Thomas of Villanova Church |
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Flight or Field Hospital: Pope Francis and the Church’s Engagement with the World
Cardinal Joseph Tobin, CSSR, Newark, NJ
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St. Thomas of Villanova Church |
April 13 |
8:30 AM |
Continental Breakfast |
TBD |
April 13 |
9:30 AM |
Reconciling Doctrine, Theology, Spirituality, and Pastorality: Vatican II and Pope Francis
John O'Malley SJ, Georgetown University
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Cinema, Connelly Center |
April 13 |
10:30 AM |
Break |
Connelly Center |
April 13 |
10:45 AM |
Pope Francis and Laudato Si
Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University
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Cinema,
Connelly Center |
April 13 |
11:45 AM |
Break |
Connelly Center |
April 13 |
12:00 PM |
Noon Mass
followed by Lunch (paid registrants only please)
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St. Thomas of Villanova Church |
April 13 |
1:45 PM |
A hunter who advances too far ahead of his fellow hunters ends up with an arrow in his behind: Following Francis’s Tough Leadership Act
Agbonkhianmeghe, Orobator, SJ, President, Conference of Jesuit Major Superiors of Africa and Madagascar, Nairobi, Kenya
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Cinema,
Connelly Center |
April 13 |
2:45 PM |
Break |
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April 13 |
3-4 PM |
Concurrent Session 1 |
Various Locations |
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Group 1: Roots of Francis’ Theology:
- Bernard Brady / From Leo to Francis: The Narrative of Catholic Social Thought
- Anthony Coloma / The Ignatian Spiritual Exercises and the Second Vatican Council: Pope Francis’s Framework for Communion and Dialogue with the Church in the World
- Marcus Mescher / Mercy: The Crux of Pope Francis’ Moral Imagination
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Cinema,
Connelly Center |
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Group 2: Francis and Amoris Laetitia and Sexual Ethics:
- Annie Selak / Missing Voices in “Amoris Laetitia”
- William Werpehowski / Agape and Special Relations: The Case of “Amoris Laetitia”
- James Bretzke, SJ/ Responsum ad Dubia: Harmonizing “Veritas Splendor” and “Amoris Laetitia” through a Conscience-Informed Casuistry
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St. David's Room,
Connelly Center
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Group 3: Francis and Laudato Si – The Environment:
- Abigail Lofte / Sacrifice at the Center of commitment: “Laudato Si” and “Evangelii Gaudium” in Conversation
- Susan Nedza, MD / Responding to “Laudato Si”: Building Catholic Partnerships between Catholics in the United States and Honduras to Care for the Earth
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Radnor Room,
Connelly Center
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Group 4: College of Engineering Application of Laudato Si:
- Gary Gabriele, Jordan Ermilio & William Lorenz / Incorporating “Laudato Si” in the College of Engineering
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Haverford Room,
Connelly Center |
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Group 5: Francis and the Media:
- Thomas Dailey, OSFS / The Church at 30,000 Feet: Appreciating Pope Francis’ Interviews with Journalists
- David Gibson / Creeping Fallibilism: How Pope Francis’ mode of discourse is reforming the papacy, and the Catholic Church
- Michael O’Loughlin / Friending Francis: The Pope, social media, and change in the Catholic Church
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Bryn Mawr Room,
Connelly Center
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Group 6: Francis and Catholic Bioethics – Health:
- Charles Camosy, M. Therese Lysaught & Christopher White / The ‘Throwaway Culture’: Pope Francis, Markets, and a New Methodology for Catholic Bioethics
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Devon Room,
Connelly Center
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April 13 |
4:00 PM |
Break |
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April 13 |
4:15 PM |
Pope Francis and His Impact on the Church of Latin America
Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodriguez Maradiaga, SDB, Tegucigalpa, Honduras |
Cinema,
Connelly Center |
April 13 |
5:15 PM |
Break |
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April 13 |
5:30 PM |
Vespers |
St. Thomas of Villanova Church |
April 13 |
6:00 PM |
Dinner Break (on your own) |
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April 13 |
8:00 PM |
Organ Concert in Honor of Pope Francis’ Fifth Anniversary
Dr. Mark Bani, Old St. Joseph’s Church, Philadelphia |
St. Thomas of Villanova Church |
April 14 |
8:00 AM |
Mass |
Villanova Room, Connelly Center |
April 14 |
8:30 AM |
Continental Breakfast (paid registrants only please) |
Villanova Room, Connelly Center |
April 14 |
9:15-10:15 AM |
Concurrent Session 2 |
Various Locations |
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Group 1: Roots of Francis’ Theology:
- Peter Folan, SJ / Scripture as ‘the Soul of Theology’?: A Critical Assessment of the Biblical Hermeneutics of Pope Francis
- Thomas Massaro, SJ / He Drinks from His Own Wells: The Jesuit Roots of the Ethical Agenda of Pope Francis
- Matthew Petrusek / Separating the Goat from the Sheep: The Role of the Devil in Pope Francis’ Ethics
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St. David's Room
Connelly Center |
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Group 2: Francis and Laudato Si – The Environment:
- Mark Doorley / Ecological Conversion and the Emergent Universe: an Interpretation of Francis’ Call to Conversion in “Laudato Si”
- Christophére Ngolele, SJ / African Identity in Dialogue with “Laudato Si” on the Environmental Crisis: Toward a Paradigm of Recognition and Sacred Care
- Barbara Wall / Concept of Nature from “Rerum Novarum” to “Laudato Si”
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Haverford Room,
Connelly Center
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Group 3: Francis and Ecclesiology:
- Dennis O’Brien / Pope Francis’ Theology of the Church: The God of Forgiveness
- Erik Ranstrom / Francis’ Vision for Church and the Four Americans: Coincidence or Convergence?
- Austen Ivereigh/ How Pope Francis is Renewing the Ecclesiology of the People of God
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Cinema,
Connelly Center |
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Group 4: Francis and the Media:
- Michael Canaris, Mary Beth Yount & Katherine Schmidt / The Pope and the Nones’ New Habits: Pope Francis, the Millennial Generation, and the Post-Post-Conciliar Church
- Sarah Thomas / Mercy in Cyberspace: Pope Francis as Model for a Theological Anthropology
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Bryn Mawr Room,
Connelly Center
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Group 5: Francis and Social Justice:
- Mary Hirschfeld / The Technocratic Paradigm and Creation: The Challenge of “Laudato Si”
- Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke / Faith as Common Good: Exploring Pope Francis’ Ecumenical Incentive to African Solidarity
- John Sniegocki / Pope Francis and Alternative Economic Visions
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Radnor Room,
Connelly Center
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Group 6: Francis and Discipleship:
- Mathew Verghese / Hearing the ry of the Earth in a Missionary Key: The Ecclesiology of “Laudato Si”
- Ines Marzaku / Centered in the Periphery – Pope Francis and St. Mother Teresa
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Devon Room,
Connelly Center
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Group 7: Francis and Discipleship
- Alessandro Rovati / The Church of Joy: Ecclesiology and Mission in Paul VI and Francis
- Marc Tumeinski / Learning from the Call to Fraternity in the ‘World Day of Peace Messages’ of Pope Francis
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Rosemont Room,
Connelly Center |
April 14 |
10:15 AM |
Break |
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April 14 |
10:30 AM |
Pope Francis: The Catholic Church as a Social Movement
Margaret Archer, President, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences |
Cinema,
Connelly Center |
April 14 |
11:30 AM |
Break |
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April 14 |
11:45 AM |
The Spiritual Roots of “Reform” in Pope Francis
Antonio Spadaro, SJ, Editor, La Civiltá Cattolica |
Cinema,
Connelly Center |
April 14 |
12:45 PM |
Lunch (paid registrants only please)
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April 14 |
1:45 PM |
Pope Francis’s Interpretation of Vatican II
Massimo Faggioli, Villanova University |
Cinema,
Connelly Center |
April 14 |
2:45 PM |
Break |
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April 14 |
3:00 PM |
Pope Francis: A Theologian of Migration
Michelle Pistone, Villanova School of Law |
Cinema,
Connelly Center |
April 14 |
4:00 PM |
Break |
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April 14 |
4:15 PM |
Concurrent Session 3 |
Various Locations |
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Group 1: Francis and Laudato Si – The Environment:
- Gerald Beyer / Pope Francis’ Vision of Integral Ecology and Catholic Universities: “Everything is Interconnected”
- Matthew Eaton / “Laudato Si” and Animal Well-Being: Exploring Food Ethics in a Throwaway Culture
- Mark Graham / Pope Francis’ “Laudato Si”: Next Steps in a Catholic Response to the Environmental Crisis
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Devon Room,
Connelly Center
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Group 2: Francis and Ecclesiology:
- Kevin Ahern / Integrating Mission: Pope Francis’ Challenge to Catholic Organizations
- Paolo Gamberini, SJ / Discernment of and in Doctrine: Pope Francis’ Reform Process of Catholic Thought
- Angela Senander, PhD/ The Spirit of Vatican II at Work in Laudato Si’
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Haverford Room,
Connelly Center
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Group 3: Francis and Social Justice:
- M.T. Davila / Challenge to the Rich Nations: Pope Francis’ Brand of the “Option for the Poor”
- Robert DeFina / “Such an Economy Kills”: Pope Francis and the Rise of Income Inequality
- Brett Fawcett / A Business Ethic of Joy: A Lonerganian Reading of Pope Francis on the Economy
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Cinema,
Connelly Center
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Group 4: Francis and Catholic Bioethics – Health:
- Jason Eberl / Culture of Life, Culture of Death, and Culture of Waste: Pope Francis's Bioethical Vision
- Ruth McDermott-Levy, Katie Huffling & Poune Saberi, MD / Climate Changes Health: Identifying the Health Risks in Our common Home
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Rosemont Room,
Connelly Center
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Group 5: Francis and Discipleship:
- Anthony Chukwuemeka Atansi / From Christological Hermeneutics to Discipleship: How Pope Francis is Doing what Pope Benedict XVI Taught
- Peter Fay / Walking at the Side of People with Mental Illness: Guidance from Pope Francis’ Model of Accompaniment
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Radnor Room,
Connelly Center |
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Group 6: Francis and Discipleship II:
- Brian Flanagan / A Bruised, Hurting, and Dirty Church
- Arthur Purcaro, OSA / Pope Francis: Building the City of God on the Firm Foundations of Humility
- Rev.Robert Grant, PhD /Recta Relatio: Pope Francis’ intriguing Environmental Theology
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St. David's Room,
Connelly Center
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April 14 |
5:15 PM |
Break |
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April 14 |
5:30 PM |
Vespers |
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April 14 |
7:00 PM |
Banquet - The Inn at Villanova (Pre-registered ticket holders only)
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The Inn at Villanova |
April 15 |
10:30 AM |
Mass |
St. Thomas of Villanova Church |
April 15 |
11:45 AM |
Wrap Up Panel (light refreshments will be available) |
Cinema, Connelly Center |