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

Name: Let everything be yours in common. The Frontiers of Poverty.
Start: 2026-09-16T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-09-17T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Pontificio Istituto Patristico Augustinianum

16 Sept 2026, 11:00 → 17 Sept 2026, 21:00 UTC

Pontificio Istituto Patristico Augustinianum

Via Paolo VI, 25 00193 Roma

International Study Center Leone XIV ETS

segretario@studiumleonexiv.org

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Wednesday 16 September
- Wed 16 Sept
- Thu 17 Sept
- Introductory Session
  
  Convener: Simone Morandini (Istituto di Studi Ecumenici “S. Bernardino”, Venezia)
  - 1
    
    Welcome addresses
    
    Speakers: Giuseppe Pagano (International Study Center Papa Leone XIV - Chair), Juan Antonio Cabrera (Istituto Patristico Augustinianum - Roma, Italy), Joseph Farrell (General Prior, Order of Saint Augustine)
  - 2
    
    Lectio Magistralis on the topic of Poverty
    
    Speaker: Enrico Giovannini (Università Tor Vergata - Roma, Italy)
  - 3
    
    Discussion
- 13:00
  
  Lunch
- First Session: Scripture and its Re-writings: a complex Tradition
  
  Convener: Cristina Simonelli (Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Settentrionale - Milano, Italy)
  - 4
    
    Poverty in the Bible
    
    Donatella Scaiola: Poverty and Justice in the Old Testament
    Kieran O'Mahoney: Povery in the Life Experience and Pastoral Theology of St Paul
    
    Speakers: Donatella Scaiola (Istituto Giovanni Paolo II - Roma, Italy), Kieran O’Mahoney (St. John’s Community - Dublin, Ireland)
  - 5
    
    Poverty: An Insight from the Fathers
    
    Voluntate pauperrimus (Civ I,10,2).
    Augustine on Paulinus of Nola: poverty as a Christian choice
    
    Speaker: Michele Cutino (Université de Strasbourg - Strasbourg, France)
  - 16:00
    
    Coffe break
  - 6
    
    Monastic poverty and poverty in mendicant orders. A different and complementary vision in the history of the Church
    
    Speaker: Francesco Salvestrini (Università di Firenze - Firenze, Italy)
  - 7
    
    Augustine as inspiration for social ethics today
    
    Discussant: Donatella Pagliacci (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milano, Italy)
- 20:00
  
  Free dinner
Thursday 17 September
- Wed 16 Sept
- Thu 17 Sept
- Second Session: Contemporaneity
  
  Convener: Massimo Faggioli (Villanova University, Pennsylvania, USA)
  - 8
    
    Short biblical-artistic meditation, i.e. on Caravaggio
    
    Speakers: Antonio Natali (già Direttore della Galleria degli Uffizi - Firenze, Italy), Elena Manganelli (Monastero Sant’Antonio da Padova - Pennabilli RN, Italy)
  - 9
    
    Poverty and the Church Magisterium
    
    Speaker: Erio Castellucci (Arcidiocesi di Modena-Nonantola - Modena, Italy)
  - 10
    
    A special focus on social ethics
    
    Discussant: Pier Davide Guenzi (Istituto Giovanni Paolo II - Roma, Italy)
  - 11
    
    Peace, Conflicts and Poverty
    
    Speaker: Lucia Capuzzi (Avvenire, Redazione Esteri)
  - 11:10
    
    Coffe Break
  - 12
    
    Law, Rights and Poverty
    
    Speaker: Patrizia Giunti (Università di Firenze - Firenze, Italy)
  - 13
    
    Para salir de la pobreza: oportunidades de educación con la IA
    
    Speaker: Elías Neira (OALA – Organización de Agustinos de Latinoamérica)
  - 14
    
    The Mediterranean Monastery Network for Peace
    
    Discussant: Claudia Maiorelli ((Monastero Sant’Antonio da Padova - Pennabilli RN, Italy))
- 13:15
  
  Lunch
- Third Session: Global Poverty, Churches and Religions
  
  Convener: Simone Morandini (Istituto di Studi Ecumenici “S. Bernardino”, Venezia)
  - 15
    
    Global Poverty: An Overview and Analysis
    
    Speaker: Luis Marín De San Martín (Elemosiniere di Sua Santità – Città del Vaticano)
  - 16
    
    Poverty, Politics and Religion
    
    Speaker: Debora Spini (New York University and Syracuse University in Florence - Firenze, Italy)
  - 17
    
    Poverty, Politics and the role of the Churches today
    
    Speaker: Massimo Faggioli (Villanova University – Villanova PA, USA)
  - 18
    
    General Discussion
  - 16:30
    
    Coffee brack
- Fourth Session: Invited contributions by Young Scholars
  
  Convener: Chabi Kolawole (Istituto Patristico Augustinianum - Roma, Italy)
  - 19
    
    Poverty and Migration (provisional title)
    
    Vittorio Bruni (University of Oxford)
    
    Speaker: Vittorio Bruni (University of Oxford - Oxford, UK)
  - 20
    
    Analysis of water and sanitation services (provisional title)
    
    Speaker: Federica Natalia Rosati (University College London - London, UK)
  - 21
    
    Discussion
- 18:30
  
  Short Break
- Conclusive Session
  
  Convener: Giuseppe Pagano (Santo Spirito Community, Firenze)
  - 22
    
    Conclusive Remarks
    
    Speaker: Joseph Farrell (General Prior, Order of Saint Augustine)
- 20:00
  
  Social Dinner