VATICAN INSIDER: FR. MARK LEWIS, RECTOR OF “THE GREG” (PART II)
On “Vatican Insider” this weekend, my guest in the interview segment is Jesuit Fr. Mark Lewis, rector of Rome’s celebrated Gregorian University, known in Rome simply as “The Greg.”
A native of Miami, Florida, Fr. Lewis has degrees in Philosophy and Theology, a Doctorate in History and a career marked by long Rome-based assignments before being named rector a year ago.
In Part II of our conversation, we look at how the Greg, preparing for the 2025 Holy Year, will offer a new Diploma in the History and Art of Jubilees, a one-year course that will be start from the academic year 2023-2024 at the Faculty of History and Cultural Heritage of the Church. We also talk about the University’s decision“to strengthen the formation of its students on the themes of safeguarding and care for human dignity through the establishment of a course whose attendance will be considered a necessary requirement for the completion of the Baccalaureate, Licentiate and Doctorate academic degrees. The course is offered by the Institute of Anthropology.
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VATICAN RELEASES LIST OF PARTICIPANTS IN OCTOBER SYNOD
Ahead of the October General Assembly of the Synod on Synodality, the Vatican unveils the list of participants which – for the first time – contains non-bishops.
By Joseph Tulloch (Vatican news)
The General Secretariat of the Synod has unveiled the list of participants in the upcoming October synodal Assembly.
For the first time, non-bishops are among the list of attendees (which can be found here, in Italian).
Many of the non-bishop participants (who are a minority at around 21%), were proposed by bishops’ conferences around the world, before being approved by Pope Francis. Others were appointed directly by the Pope.
Prominent names from around the English-speaking world include Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay; Professor Anna Rowlands, a theologian at Durham University in the United Kingdom; and US-based writer and commentator Fr James Martin, SJ.
A “mixture” of the People of God
Speaking at a press conference in the Vatican, Cardinal Grech stressed that the delegates had been selected so as to produce a “mixture” from various parts of the Church.
Most obviously, there will be an even mix of participants from six different continents, and the non-bishop members will be evenly divided by gender. Cardinal Grech also stressed, however, that there will be representatives from the various sui juris Eastern Catholic churches, and that an effort was made to include disabled Catholics too.
Cardinal Grech went on to explain that not everyone named on the list will be a “member”, and thus able to participate in discussions at the Assembly and vote on proposals. Those in section B on the list, “Special Envoys,” will be able to discuss but not to vote, while those in section C, “Other Participants,” will play a role in facilitating and or/advising on the process, but will neither intervene nor vote in discussions.
The cardinal also highlighted that the list of participants is not final – the lists of delegates from other Christian churches are still to arrive, and some names will likely be changed if members fall ill ahead of the assembly. FOR MORE: Vatican releases list of participants in October Synod – Vatican News
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