The Church Up Close
Covering Catholicism
in the age of Benedict XVI
Program
Monday 8
9.00 -10.15
Nature and Mission: What Is the Catholic Church?
Rev. Prof. Philip Goyret, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee break
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
17.00
Encounter
Church Diplomacy: The Vatican Secretariat of State
Msgr. Ettore Balestrero, Secretariat of State
Tuesday 9
8.30 - 12.30
Visit to the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica
Prof. Elizabeth Lev, Duquesne University
13.30
Work Lunch on Pontifical Universities and Priestly Formation
17.00
Encounter
The Holy Office: Myths and Reality
Msgr. Charles Brown, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Wednesday 10
10.30 – 12.00
Papal Audience (St. Peter’s Square)
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
Thursday 11
9.00 - 10.00
Facing the New Bioethical Challenges
Marta Bertolaso, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome
10.00 – 10.15 Coffee break
10.15 – 11.45
You Are What You Pray: Liturgical Issues in the Church
Rev. Cassian Folsom, Monastery of San Benedetto, Norcia
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
Friday 12
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
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 - 12.00
Islam and the Catholic Church
Rev. Prof. Maurice Borrmans, M. Afr. Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies
13.30
Work Lunch
The Holy See and Israel
Rev. Prof. David Maria A. Jaeger, OFM Pontifical University Antonianum
17.00
Encounter
Peter’s Barque in a Sea of Christianities: Ecumenism and Religious Pluralism Joan-Andreu Rocha, Pontifical Atheneum Regina Apostolorum
Saturday 13
9.00 – 10.15
The Long Shadow of Galileo: Science and the Church
Rev. Prof. Rafael Martínez, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
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
Sunday 14
10.00
Visit to Castelgandolfo and Angelus with Benedict XVI
13.30
Lunch