Pope Leo XIV: From the Americas, For the World

• This is a HYBRID conference & will be livestreamed via our YouTube channel's "Live" page. We will e-mail the specific link to all registrants closer to the conference.
• For those watching from OTHER TIME ZONES: The schedule follows local Chicago time, which is Central Daylight Time (CDT) and corresponds to UTC-5, Coordinated Universal Time.
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  With the new pope's (and our) hometown of Chicago as the backdrop, this hybrid conference delves into the first year of Leo XIV's new papacy, exploring the unique way that his biography bridges continents. Speakers from around the world will join us to examine

• Leo’s formative influences
• his connections between the Americas and other parts of the world
• his continuities and discontinuities with Pope Francis
• the future of the Church under his leadership, especially in terms of pressing issues like AI, synodality, sexual abuse, and climate change​
  
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  "" is the 17th annual World Catholicism Week conference organized by DePaul University's Center for World Catholicism & Intercultural Theology (CWCIT), and we're very grateful to our cosponsors this year here at DePaul:

• Department of Catholic Studies
• Division of Mission and Ministry

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Info: Each year, undergrads from DePaul’s Catholic Studies courses submit a research poster on that year’s World Catholicism Week topic/theme. The top 8-10 are selected by their professors to present their research posters in this public, interactive session before the academic conference itself kicks off. Three of our conference speakers (TBA) will serve as respondents, speaking individually with the students about their research during the public presentation and then coming together to offer their comments on each student’s work in a “feedback session.” ​​

Info: PANELISTS' TOPICS: (1) Afe Adogame: TBA (2) Emilce Cuda: TBA (3) Christopher White: "From Missionary Priest to Missionary Pope"

Info: PANELISTS' TOPICS: (1) Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández: "Baseball and a Pope from Chicago: Cultivating Theologies of Encounter in a Language of Lo Popular" ... (2) César Piscoya: TBA ... (3) Shannen Dee Williams: "What Pope Leo XIV's Suppressed Creole Heritage Can Teach Us About the American Catholic Experience and Its Foundational African Roots"

Info: PANELISTS' TOPICS: (1) Michael Baxter: "Americanism Between the Two Pope Leos: Misguided Movement, Erroneous Doctrine, Phantom Heresy, and Tragic Tradition" ... (2) Steven P. Millies: "New Life for the Consistent Ethic: 'A Global Ethic of Solidarity' from Chicago to Chiclayo to Rome and Back" ... (3) Toussaint K. Murhula, SJ: "Human Dignity, Historical Responsibility, and Ecological Justice: Africa's Expectations for Pope Leo XIV "

Info: PANELISTS' TOPICS: (1) Daniel P. Castillo: "Gardening in a Valley of Dry Bones: Politico-Ecological Love in Pope Leo’s Papacy" ... (2) Philip Larrey, SJ: "Pope Leo and the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence" ... (3) Paola Ugaz: TBA

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DePaul Student Center, 2250 N. Sheffield Ave., Chicago, United States

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