Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation’s Annual Conference
The Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI Foundation hosts a conference every year, alternating between Rome and a city throughout the world. Franciscan University was given the honor of hosting the first-ever Ratzinger Conference in the United States. This conference is also unique among the Ratzinger Conferences for its special focus on the theology of Pope Benedict.
Please join us for as many of the plenary talks (listed below) as you can and join us in celebrating the Church with a beautiful sacred music concert that Friday evening.
Hourly Schedule
Thursday October 20
- 9:15 AM -
- The Church as Communio in the Theological Vision of Ratzinger
- His Eminence Kurt Cardinal Koch President, Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity (remotely, not in-person)
- 3:30 PM -
- Ratzinger's Ecclesiology in its Wider Theological Context
- Tracey Rowland
Friday October 21
- 9:00 AM -
- Joseph Ratzinger's Vision of the Church and Ecumenism
- Micheal Root
- 11:30 AM -
- Scripture and Evangelization in Ratzinger's Vision of the Church
- Michael Waldstein
- 5:00 PM -
- The Way Forward: Contemporary Challenges and Issues
- Most Revenrend Stefan Oster, SDB
- 7:00 PM -
- Evening Prayer and Concert
- Christ the King Chapel
