April 30-May 1
Registration required: PopeLeo.eventbrite.com
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For full details, including the Thursday and Friday schedules,
visit worldcathweek.depaul.edu.
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With the new pope's hometown (and ours!) of Chicago as the backdrop, this year's World Catholicism Week conferences 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​
   

SPEAKERS FOR FRIDAY, MAY 1

• Michael J. Baxter (University of Notre Dame | Cofounder, Peter Claver Catholic Worker—South Bend, IN, USA)
• Daniel P. Castillo (Loyola Marymount University | Author, An Ecological Theology of Liberation: Salvation and Political Ecology)
• Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula, SJ (Arrupe Center for Research & Formation—Lubumbashi, DRC)
• Philip Larrey, SJ (Boston College | Author, Artificial Humanity: An Essay on the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence)
• Steven P. Millies (Catholic Theological Union | Author, A Consistent Ethic of Life: Navigating Catholic Engagement with U.S. Politics)
• Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández (Catholic Theological Union | Author, Theologizing en Espanglish) 
• César Piscoya (Latin American & Caribbean Bishops' Council [CELAM] | Former executive secretary, social vicariate of the Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, under Bishop Robert Prevost) 
• Paola Ugaz​ (Diario ABC, Peru | Coauthor, Mitad Monjes, Mitad Soldados [Half Monks, Half Soldiers]) 
• Shannen D. Williams (University of Dayton | Author, Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle)