Let everything be yours in common. The Frontiers of Poverty.

Session

First Session

16 Sept 2026, 14:30

Pontificio Istituto Patristico Augustinianum

Conveners

First Session: Scripture and its Re-writings: a complex Tradition

• Cristina Simonelli (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Settentrionale - Milano, Italy)

3. Poverty in the Bible

Donatella Scaiola (Istituto Giovanni Paolo II - Roma, Italy), Kieran O’Mahoney (St. John’s Community - Dublin, Ireland)

16/09/2026, 14:30

Donatella Scaiola: Poverty and Justice in the Old Testament
Kieran O'Mahoney: Povery in the Life Experience and Pastoral Theology of St Paul

4. Poverty: An Insight from the Fathers

Michele Cutino (Université de Strasbourg - Strasbourg, France)

16/09/2026, 15:30

Voluntate pauperrimus (Civ I,10,2).
Augustine on Paulinus of Nola: poverty as a Christian choice

5. Monastic poverty and poverty in mendicant orders. A different and complementary vision in the history of the Church

Francesco Salvestrini (Università di Firenze - Firenze, Italy)

16/09/2026, 16:30

Invited oral contribution

6. Augustine as inspiration for social ethics today

16/09/2026, 17:00

Discussant: Donatella Pagliacci (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milano, Italy)

27. Monastic poverty and poverty in Mendicant Orders. A different and complementary vision in the history of the Church

Francesco Salvestrini (Università di Firenze, Firenze)

Invited oral contribution

In the Christian tradition, poverty is associated not with deprivation but with sharing. As the Acts of
the Apostles recounts, the first converts “were together and had all things in common” (Acts
2:44–45; cf. 11:28–29). Likewise, following the naked Christ in nakedness did not imply rejecting
the value of material goods, but rather using them rightly by distributing one’s possessions to...