Program​

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Monday 8

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9.00 -10.15

Nature and Mission: What Is the Catholic Church?

Rev. Prof. Philip Goyret, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross

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10.15 – 10.45 Coffee break

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10.45 - 12.00

The Whole and Its Parts: How the Church Is Organized

Rev. Prof. Brian Ferme, St. Pius X Institute of Canon Law, Venice

 

13.30
Work Lunch with “Vaticanisti”

Ms. Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

Mr. Marco Tosatti, La Stampa

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17.00

Encounter

Church Diplomacy: The Vatican Secretariat of State

Msgr. Ettore Balestrero, Secretariat of State

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Tuesday 9

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8.30 - 12.30

Visit to the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica

Prof. Elizabeth Lev, Duquesne University

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13.30

Work Lunch on Pontifical Universities and Priestly Formation

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17.00

Encounter

The Holy Office: Myths and Reality

Msgr. Charles Brown, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

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Wednesday 10

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10.30 – 12.00

Papal Audience (St. Peter’s Square)

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13.30

Work Lunch

The Church in China: A Silent Revolution

Rev. Bernardo Cervellera, AsiaNews
Dr. Raphaela Schmid, Beckett Institute

 

17.00

Encounter

Ambassadors to a Church?

Mr. Francis Campbell, British Ambassador to the Holy See

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Thursday 11

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9.00 - 10.00

Facing the New Bioethical Challenges

Marta Bertolaso, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome

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10.00 – 10.15 Coffee break

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10.15 – 11.45

You Are What You Pray: Liturgical Issues in the Church

Rev. Cassian Folsom, Monastery of San Benedetto, Norcia

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Visit to the Scavi Vaticani
12.00 – 13.00 (Group 1)

13.30 – 14.30 (Group 2)

Msgr. Christopher Nalty, Congregation for the Clergy

 

17.00

Encounter

The Press Office of the Holy See

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Friday 12

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9.00 - 10.15

The Common Good and the Justice Agenda: Social Doctrine of the Church Today

Msgr. Anthony Frontiero, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace

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10.15 – 10.45 Coffee break

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10.45 - 12.00

Islam and the Catholic Church

Rev. Prof. Maurice Borrmans, M. Afr. Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies

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13.30

Work Lunch

The Holy See and Israel

Rev. Prof. David Maria A. Jaeger, OFM Pontifical University Antonianum

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17.00

Encounter

Peter’s Barque in a Sea of Christianities: Ecumenism and Religious Pluralism Joan-Andreu Rocha, Pontifical Atheneum Regina Apostolorum

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Saturday 13

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9.00 – 10.15

The Long Shadow of Galileo: Science and the Church

Rev. Prof. Rafael Martínez, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross

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10.15 – 10.45

Coffee break
 

10.45 – 12.00

Theological Keys to Joseph Ratzinger’s Thought

Card. James Francis Stafford, Apostolic Penitentiary

 

13.30

Work Lunch

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Sunday 14

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10.00

Visit to Castelgandolfo and Angelus with Benedict XVI

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13.30

Lunch