11/07/2025 14:00
- 17:30
HALL: Audimax
Proponent:
Ferracci L.,
Proietti M.,
Ruozzi F.,
Scatena S.
Chair:
Ruozzi F.,
Scatena S.
Speaker:
Anitha K.,
Gardini D.,
Getui M.,
Mainardi A.,
Nnabugwu C.,
Ogbumba J.L.,
Ortinero A.J.,
Palmesano M.
This panel, promoted by FSCIRE in Bologna as part of the research project on the history of post-Vatican II, aims to investigate how the Council has been received, reframed, implemented and even questioned at different levels (diocesan, national, continental) and through watershed events (e.g. local synods) by institutions (e.g. episcopal conferences, curial dicasteries), by formal and informal groups and centers engaged in rethinking and supporting pastoral action, as well as by individual or collective actors (e.g. bishops, theologians, priests, pastoral agents, journals, informal groups, local communities, church movements, etc.). In other words, the submission of papers on where, when, how and thanks to whom the radiating centers of Vatican II have arisen and operated since 1965 is encouraged. This will help to overcome an Eurocentric approach to post-Vatican II history (although European Catholicism, with its churches and universities remains central to the council's reception) and open to the different latitudes and longitudes that, with their different periodizations from the Roman center, played a catalytic role with respect to the council's major themes: ecumenism, ecclesiology, liturgical reform, poverty and development.