The Gregorian University Foundation Board announced Tuesday, September 17 that it has chosen Fr Michael McFarland SJ to be the Foundation's next President with his term beginning on January 1, 2020. He succeeds Fr Alan Fogarty, SJ who has served as President since 2014....
This year’s International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) is hosted by the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. 800 biblical scholars from 65 countries are meeting in the first week of July to discuss recent developments in biblical...
Pope Francis hopes to simplify and decentralize the Roman Curia, as recently revealed by a new Vatican document, tentatively titled Praedicate Evangelium....
Universal Apostolic Preferences are the fruit of a process of discernment lasting almost two years. All Jesuits were invited to take part and in addition our mission partners. It concluded with a confirmation from Pope Francis in a special meeting with Fr General Arturo Sosa. ...
Pope Francis already has accepted a request to meet participants in the conference on "Jesus and the Pharisees: An Interdisciplinary Reappraisal," which will be held May 7-9 at the Gregorian University....
Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University, and Marc Zvi Brettler, Professor in Judaic Studies at Duke University, the editors of the Jewish Annotated New Testament, presented the book to Pope Francis at the General Audience on Wednesday, March 27th. ...
Rome 7-9 May 2019 The international conference Jesus and the Pharisees: An Interdisciplinary Reappraisal brings together Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, and other scholars from Argentina, Austria, Canada, Colombia, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, and the United States. The conference first deals with the possible origins and meanings of the...
By summoning leaders of the world's bishops' conferences and top representatives of religious orders to the Vatican in February to address the abuse crisis and the protection of minors, Pope Francis is sending the message that the need for safeguarding is a global issue....
The Most Reverend Bishop Attila Miklósházy SJ, alumnus of the Pontifical Gregorian University, died on 28 December 2018....
On 23 November the Vatican announced Pope Francis had appointed US Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta and Jesuit Father Hans Zollner to the committee for the February 21-24 meeting. Fr Zollner SJ is president of the...
