The Church Up Close
Covering Catholicism in the Age of Leo XIV
Program
NB - talks marked with asterisk (*) are held at the University of Santa Croce. Registration
and coffee breaks are also at the University.
Monday, 7 September
9.00 - 9.45 Registration & Welcome Coffee*
9.45 - 10.30 Introduction to the Program: Getting to Know the Church Up Close*
Rev. Prof. John Wauck - Pontifical University of Santa Croce
10.30 - 11.30 Nature and Mission: What Is the Catholic Church?*
Speaker TBD
12.00 - 13.30 Getting to Know Pope Leo through the Order of Saint Augustine
P. Kolawole Chabi, OSA (Order of Saint Augustine)
13.30 - 14.30 Buffet* Greetings from the Rector
14.45 - 16.15 Demographics of the Catholic Church
Speaker TBD 16.30 - 18.45
Guided Tour: Historic Center of Rome
Mr. John & Mrs. Ashley Noronha - Professors, Art & Architecture Guides
Tuesday, 8 September
9.00 - 10.30 Encounter doing diplomacy in the Holy See
Speaker TBD
11.30 - 13.00 Encounter at the Venerable English College: Training Priests for the Universal Church
Mgr. Stephen Wang - Rector
13.15 - 15.15 Work Lunch: The Catholic Church in Latin America
Speaker TBD
16.15 - 17.15 Visit to the barracks of the Pontifical Swiss Guard
17.15 - 19.15 Guided Tour: St. Peter's Basilica
Rev. Prof. John Wauck - Pontifical University of Santa Croce
Wednesday, 9 September
8.00 - 11.00 Pope's Audience
11.30 - 13.00 Christians in the Middle East*
Prof.ssa Marta Petrosillo - Church in Need
13.15 - 15.15 Work Lunch: Vatican Communications
speaker TBD
15.30 - 17.00 Finance and Economy of the Vatican*
Dr. Benjamín Estévez de Cominges - Secretary General of the Secretariat for the Economy
17.15 - 18.45 The Church in Asia*
Fr. Robert McCulloch - Missionary Society of St. Columban
Thursday, 10 September
9.00 - 10.30 The Diplomatic Corps of the Holy See: How is a Nunzio made?*
Mgr. Mihăiţă Blaj, Under-secretary of the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break*
11.00 - 12.30 Social Doctrine of the Church on Poverty*
Prof. María Dolores Sánchez Galera - Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development
13.15 - 15.30 Free time
15.30 - 17.00 Human Trafficking and Migrants*
Dott.ssa Amaya Valcarcel - Official of the Dicastery for Integral Human Development
17.15 - 18.45 Vatican Museum: An Introduction*
Speaker TBD
Friday, 11 September
9.00 - 10.30 Visit to be confirmed
11.30 - 13.00 Organization of the Curia*
Rev. Prof. Fernando Puig - Rector, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
13.15 - 15.15 Work Lunch: Dos and Don’ts in Covering the Vatican Courtney Mares
OSV, Vatican Editor
15.30 - 17.00 The Church in Africa*
Archb. Fortunatus Nwachukwu - Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section of First Evangelization and New Particular Churches)
17.30 - 20.00 Guided Tour: Vatican Museums
Saturday, 12 September
9.00 - 10.00 Bus trip to Castelgandolfo
10.30 - 12.00 Encounter at the Vatican Observatory: The Catholic Church and Scientific Culture
Rev. Fr. Richard D'Souza, SJ - Astronomer and Superior of the Jesuit Community
13.00 - 15.30 Farewell lunch in Castelgandolfo
18.00 - 19.00 Bus trip back to Rome