Assisi 2012 Gathering: 17-20 April 2012

An Invitation from the Organizing Committee

You are cordially invited to become involved in this large-scale international and ecumenical gathering exploring the theme of dialogue from the perspectives of the past, present and future. The overall aim is to discern new ways, means and methods of advancing the ecumenical cause in the wake of the ‘ecumenical winter’ and with renewed energy for a new century. It is intended to be not so much a conference, as the beginning of a process or series of ongoing processes. This gathering will seek to identify, share and shape, as well as to put into practice, productive pathways for dialogue in these times. It wishes to encourage ecumenical ‘thinking outside the box’ and to gather together a richly diverse array of voices in order to help make this happen.

Gerard Mannion,

University of San Diego, California, USA – Chair of Ecclesiological Investigations and the Organizing Committee of Assisi 2012:

Gioacchino Campese CS,

Casa Scalabrini, Siponto (Foggia)

Mark D. Chapman,

Ripon College, Cuddesdon, and Oxford University, UK

Paul M. Collins,

Chichester University and Holy Island Anglican

Parish of St Mary the Virgin, Lindisfarne, UK

Justine Gonzales,

Frances G. Harpst Center for Catholic Thought and Culture, University of San Diego, US

Miriam Haar,

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Vladimir Latinovic,

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany

Sandra Mazzolini,

Pontifical University Urbaniana, Rome, Italy,

Mary McClintock Fulkerson,

Duke Divinity School, North Carolina, USA

Giovanni Pernigotto,

Trento, Italy

Peter C. Phan,
Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA