April 30-May 1
Registration required: PopeLeo.eventbrite.com
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For full details, including speaker bios and the schedule for both Thursday and Friday,
visit PopeLeo.eventbrite.com.
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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 THURSDAY, APRIL 30 :::

OPENING PANEL—Pope Leo and a Global Gift Exchange 

• Afe Adogame—Princeton Theological Seminary | Author, Topographies of African Spirituality
• Emilce Cuda—Pontifical Commission for Latin America | Author, Para Leer a Francisco: Teología, Ética y Política [Reading Francis: Theology, Ethics, and Politics]
• Christopher White—Georgetown University | Author, Pope Leo XIV: Inside the Conclave and the Dawn of a New Papacy

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION—Peru's Pope: Becoming Leo in a Time of Fear & Faith
Greg Grandin—Yale University | Author, America, América: A New History of the New World