Day 2

18.04.2012

What Remains Divisive?

7.00-8.00am

Breakfast

8.00-8.45am

Refettorietto, Santa Maria Degli Angeli

Soul Food Plenary

Francis, Clare and the Ecumenical “Spirit of Assisi”

Reflection from Gilberto Cavazos-González (US)

Followed by:

Prayers and Reflections from Different Traditions

9.00am

Auditorium

Gathering Plenary Session

Chair: Mary McClintock Fulkerson (US)

Precarious Life, Laments, and the Promise of Prophetic Ecumenical and Interfaith Communities

Bradford Hinze (US)

The Postcolonial Divide: the Questions we Must Face Before Entering into Dialogue

Mary N. Getui (Kenya)

Where and When Gender Divides

Eleni Kasselouri-Hatzivassiliadi (Greece)

Respondent: Deivit A. Montealegre (Argentina)

10.45am

Coffee

11.15am-12.45pm

ABC Parallel Plenary Sessions:

A. Intra/Inter-Church Issues

Chair: Sandra Mazzolini (Italy)

Auditorium

The Burdens of History: Must Tribalism Always Prevail?

John De Gruchy

(South Africa)

Hierarchy or Network of Truths?: Hermeneutical Principles and Challenges of Dialogue about Doctrinal Issues

Adrian Suter

(Switzerland)

Overcoming Ecclesial Exclusion: Lessons from Minority Traditions and Political Philosophy

Debora Spini (Italy)

Does a Doctrinal teaching Office have an Ecumenical Future?

Richard R. Gaillardetz (US)

B. Inter-faith Issues

Chair:  Mark Chapman (England)

Sapienza Piano Terra

Hostility and Generosity:  Christian Interpretations of the Scriptures in Relation to Other Religions

Leo D. Lefebure (US)

Cross-Currents in African Theology –  Lessons for an Intercultural Hermeneutic

Stan Chu Ilo (Nigeria/

Canada)

Constructing a Theology of Face for Inter-faith Dialogue:

From Politics of Sameness to Politics of Alterity

Namsoon Kang  (Korea/US)

Contending Sexualities – Faith Communities and the Ethics of Inclusivity

Andrew Marin (US)

C. Faith and World

Chair: Gioacchino Campese (Italy)

Sala Porziuncola

Caste, Class and Race – Barriers Within and Without Faith Communities

Stephanie Y. Mitchem (US)

The Age of Migration: Reconceiving the Pilgrim Faith Communities

Joshua Ralston (US/Palestine)

No Place to Lay Our Heads: Migration and Church in the 21st Century

Susanna J. Snyder (England/US)

Fragments in search of Unity: a challenge to our Churches, a challenge to the world

Rocco D’Ambrosio
(Italy)

12.45pm

Lunch

14.15-15.45pm

Concurrent Thematic Panels and Paper Sessions I

(14.50)

Coffee available at Mid-point

16.00

Depart for Basilica di San Francesco

17.15-18.15

Guided Group Tours of Lower then Upper Basilicas

18.30-20.00

Main Worship Area, Lower Basilica

1. Welcome from Friar Giuseppe Piemontese OFM, Custodian of the Basilica

2. San Francesco and the Path to Dialogue – Methods and Practices from The Franciscan Tradition

Friar Silvestro Bejan OFM (Romania)

– Delegato generale for the Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue International Franciscan Center for Dialogue

With simultaneous translation by Friar Brian Terry, SA (US/Italy) Society of the Atonement, Assisi

3. Plenary Soul Food: Followed by Ecumenical Vespers and Procession to Tomb of San Francesco

20.00

Free evening in Upper Assisi

22.30/23.00/23.30

Buses Return to Domus Pacis at these times only (public buses available at other times although no later than 23.30)