Georgetown University hosts symposium on Evangelii Gaudium

(Vatican Radio) Evangelii Gaudium: A new vision for the Church? That’s the theme of a symposium taking place on Friday in the Berkley Centre for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University, America’s oldest Catholic university. The symposium explores four main aspects of Pope Francis’ recent Apostolic Exhortation – its ecclesiology, its social justice agenda, its global engagement with international affairs and its implications for the future of the Catholic Church.

One of the main organizers of the meeting is Georgetown professor Gerard Mannion, co-director of its Church and World Program and head of its 'Church and the Ecumenical Future' project. He talked to Philippa Hitchen about the symposium and about his views on the ‘new vision’ contained in the Pope’s Apostolic Exhoration…

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