21/05/2024 11:00 - 13:15

HALL: FATESI - MARCATAJO

Proponent: Faggioli M., Froehle B.

Chair: Froehle B.

Speaker: Ansorge D., Faggioli M., Froehle B., Kunter K., Mclarren K.

The then-reigning global order that cracked in the second decade of the twenty-first century has seen accelerated disruption with the Russian invasion of Ukraine and then the Israel-Hamas war initiated by the October 7, 2023 attack against Israeli civilians.
The Catholic Church has responded diplomatically with Pope Francis' initiatives but above all with contrasting interpretations. Their notable variable and even opposition are an opportunity for understanding emerging fissures in Global Catholicism. We have in mind the contrasts in understanding between Catholic political leaders such as US President Joe Biden and the Brazilian President Lula as well as those between ecclesial leaders such as Ukrainian bishops and Italian bishops.
What does all this say about Global Catholicism? What does it suggest about relations between Global Catholicism and Orthodoxy, whether in Eastern Europe or the Middle East? What do these wars and responses to these wars suggest about shifts in the reading of Jewish-Catholic dialogue, the space of inter-religious dialogue that was so critical in the second half of the twentieth century? What do these developments suggest for Global Catholicism in the emerging realities of the twenty-first? What are the key power dynamics under which Global Catholicism functions now and how will that affect the next several decades of Global Catholicism? What different views of global history are at play here and how do they affect emerging ecclesiologies?