Day 4

20.04.2012

Re-energising the Ecumenical Cause

07.00-7.50am

Breakfast

08.00-08.45am

Refettorietto

Soul Food Plenary

1. Pathways for Reconciliation: Raymond Helmick SJ (US):

2. Followed by Meditation and Chant

09.00am

Concurrent Panel and  Paper Sessions II

10.45am

Coffee

11.15am-12.45pm

ABC Parallel Plenary Sessions:

A. Intra/Inter-Church Issues

Chair: Miriam Haar (Germany/Ireland)

Sapienza Piano Terra

Norman A. Hjelm (US)

The Leuenberg Process: How Diversity can be a Path Towards Unity

Stephanie Dietrich (Germany/Norway)

Making a Common Vision of the
Church Possible

William Henn OFM Cap. (US/Italy)

The  Future of Conciliar Ecumenism

Michael Kinnamon (US)

B. Inter-faith Issues

Chair:  Bahar Davary (Iran/US)

Auditorium

Women’s Creative Ventures into Dialogue: Ethics in a Multifaith Society: Christians and Muslims in Dialogue

Patricia Madigan, OP, (Australia)

Building Peace and Reconciliation Amongst the People of Sri Lanka

Bishop Duleep de Chickera

(Sri Lanka)

Emptiness and Otherness: Negative Theology and the Language of Compassion

Susie Paulik Babka (US)

Inventing a New  Time and Space for our Common Dwelling

Kondothra M. George (India)

C. Faith and World

Chair: Stephanie Mitchem (US)

Sala Porziuncola

Practical Ecumenism and Human Survival in the 21st Century: Resisting Globalization as a Divisive Force

Mary Doak (US)

Conflict Transformation, Ecumenical Imagination and Christian Hope

David Tombs (England/

N. Ireland)

Making Difficult Dialogue Possible -The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians

Fulata Lusungu Moyo (Malawi)

From the Possibility to the Necessity of Dialogue

Brian Terry  (US/Italy)

12.45pm

Lunch

14.15-16.00pm

Gathering Plenary Session

Chair: Fulata Mbano-Moyo (Malawi)

Speakers:

Difficult Dialogue and Wisdoms About Difference – Doing as a Way of Knowing

Mary McClintock Fulkerson (US)

Communicative Theology: a New Way of Engagement

Bernd-Jochen Hilberath (Germany)

Receiving Ecumenical “Thinking Outside the Box” – From Yesterday to Tomorrow

William G. Rusch (US)

Respondent: Elaine Padilla (US)

16.00

Coffee

16.30-17.25

Taking Assisi 2012 Forward: Clearing and Mapping the Pathways for Dialogue in the 21^st Century

Chair: Gerard Mannion

1.      Thinking Outside the Ecumenical Box: The Method and Future of Ecclesiological Investigations

2. Reports from Committee Observers and Discussion

3. Assisi 2012: A Process at the Beginning of a Series of Processes – Reflections and Overview of Future Plans

17.30-17.50

Closing Plenary Lecture – Toward the Dialogue of the Future

Chair: Peter De Mey (Belgium)

Where We Dwell in Common:

Ecclesial Spirituality as a Basis for Living with Other Religions

Revd Professor Roger D. Haight SJ (US)

18.00-18.15pm

Plenary Soul Food

A Blessing on Our Way… Sr Alessandra Sciaboletta (Italy)

18.30-18.55pm

Aperitivi

19.00pm

Assisi 2012 Closing Gathering Banquet

Grace: Aaron S. Gross (US)

After Dinner Speeches: Andrew Pierce (Ireland) and Gemma Simmonds (England)

21.15pm

Celebration of Community: Conversation, Music and Bar