Here is the speaker’s list and the topics they’ll be speaking on:

Welcome and Introduction: 

Professor P. Joseph Agius, OP  (Rector of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas)

Professor Bruno Esposito, OP  (Dean of Canon Law, Pontifical University of St. Thomas)

Address:

Cardinal Franc Rode,  CM  (Prefect of the Congregation for Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life)

 The Abbot Vicar of Christ: Authority in Monastic Life:

Fr. Sebastiano Paciolla, O. Cist. (Professor in Pontifical Atheneo Sant’Anselmo)

 Religious Authority in the Dominicans as a Mendicant Order:

Fr. Robert Ombres, OP (Professor in the Pontifical University of St. Thomas)

Address:

Archbishop Francesco Coccopalmerio (President, Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts)

 Religious Authority in the Company of Jesus (Jesuits):

Fr. Robert Geisinger, SJ  (Professor in the Pontifical University of the Gregoriana)

Authority and Governance in Modern Congregations:

Fr. Luigi Sabbarese, CS  (Professor in the Pontifical University of the Urbaniana)

I am not exactly sure how I will be taking notes at this conference because I have been designated as one of those who will hand a microphone to participants for their questions during the sessions.  However, I might end up recording the event and transcribing them at some point.

Stay tuned…

It was an interesting experience. Not only did we do the exam in the Curia office itself, but it was great meeting and speaking with the highest ranking woman in the Vatican who presided over our exams. In addition, I got a tour around the Curia from a priest I had worked with last year, and it was marvelous. He showed me his office, which looks through the columns at St. Peter’s into the square. And then I got the most breathtaking view of St. Peter’s from the balcony over the street Via Conciliazione. You could look directly to the square, and it’s the spot the news agencies crowd when there are huge outdoor Papal events to be covered.

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