Conferences

Welcome

Barbara Wall, PhD, Vice President for Mission and Ministry, Villanova University 

Flight or Field Hospital: Pope Francis and the Church’s Engagement with the World

Cardinal Joseph Tobin, CSSR, Newark, NJ

Reconciling Doctrine, Theology, Spirituality, and Pastorality: Vatican II and Pope Francis

John O'Malley SJ, Georgetown University

Noon Mass

followed by Lunch (paid registrants only please)

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

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

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

St. David's Room,
Connelly Center

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

Group 4:  College of Engineering Application of Laudato Si:

• Gary Gabriele, Jordan Ermilio & William Lorenz / Incorporating “Laudato Si” in the College of Engineering

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
  

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

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

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”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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’

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

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

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

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