• by Mark A. Lewis, S.J. | Rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University

The University’s Strategic Plan anticipates and plans the future of our community, it shows us the path to take to get to where we want to be in five years. We all have an important role in its implementation: ours is a living, vital and creative community. The goal is to remain faithful to our mission, with the hope of improving and enriching it within the university, the Church and the world.

Interview with Professor Francesco Cesareo, External consultant for the formulation of the Strategic Plan

• by Paolo Pegoraro | Editorial Director

The Strategic Plan is the result of a comprehensive consultative process involving the definition of priorities and objectives. We discussed this  with Professor Cesareo, the external consultant who collaborated  with the Gregorian University on this complex project.  The Strategic Plan is a great opportunity: rooted in the Ignatian tradition, yet aware of the changes underway. 

Interview with Fr Lino Dan S.J., Administrative Vice Rector

• by Paolo Pegoraro | Editorial Director

The administration of a complex institution such as the Gregorian University requires specific practical skills which may seem to have no connection with theological and pastoral formation. On the contrary, administrative aspects have become increasingly important, so as to offer an exemplary witness in the management of resources and human relations.

Diploma in Leadership and Management

• by Stefano del Bove, S.J. | Moderator of the Diploma

Now in its fifth year, the Diploma in Leadership and Management has developed both in terms of participants, teaching quality and resourcefulness. What we want to offer them is the appropriation of the language and style of presence of an adaptive and sustainable leadership, centred on service, community and Jesuit values.

Licentiate in Leadership and Management

• by Benedict Jung, S.J. | Faculty of Social Sciences

The Licentiate consists of an English-language programme that takes place over two years (4 semesters). Its objective is to help managers and leaders in the Church to create organisations in which mission and management interact in a mutually enriching way.

An introductory course

• by Angela Rinaldi – Alessandra Campo | Institute of Anthropology (IADC)

The Gregoriana has decided to include a training course on subjects related to the care and protection of the dignity of the human person, which is compulsory for obtaining academic degrees. The three-hour course combines online learning and dialogue with lecturers from the Institute of Anthropology (IADC).

• by Bryan Lobo, S.J. | Dean of the Faculty of Missiology

How does missiology understand itself two thousand years after the earthly life of Jesus? The reformulation of the academic programmes of the Faculty of Missiology is the fruit of an in-depth reflection involving its professors and the faculty of the Centre for Interreligious Studies, leading to a revision of the curricula and courses.

• by Simone D'Agostino | Faculty of Philosophy

The PRAGMATEIA initiative offers students the opportunity to engage with the classics of philosophy with a dynamic and personal approach. Through a reading and updating process, they formulate questions addressed to specialist scholars. The questions are then incorporated into the final lectures, making them both more dynamic and more personal.

The value of experience and context

• by Andrea Cavallini | Faculty of Philosophy

The Philosophical Pilgrimages are a new initiative of the Faculty of Philosophy that allows students to experience first-hand the places where themes of great importance to them were born and developed. The first destination of this new project was Greece, the cradle of classical culture and a fundamental setting of early Christianity. Second stage: Turkey and the Presocratics. In the autumn of 2024 the "pilgrimage" will take place in south-est Germany.

Interview with Father Délio Mendonça, S.J. Dean of the Faculty of History and Cultural Heritage of the Church

• by Paolo Pegoraro | Editorial Director

To rethink the study of the history and cultural heritage of the Church, considering that, while it is true that “all roads lead to Rome”, it has also been enriched by its openness to the rest of the world, giving fully in return. A transdisciplinary and inclusive approach is the antidote to self-referentiality.

• by Andrea A. Verardi | Department of History of the Church

The Permanent Seminar on the History of the Papacy and the Popes, inaugurated by the journal "Archivum Historiae Pontificiae" and open to international scholars who devote their research to the Papacy and to the city of Rome, offers to the scientific community a forum for encounter and debate

A new Diploma for Jubilee Year 2025

• by Ottavio Bucarelli | Director of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Church

The new Diploma “Rome, Holy City of the Jubilee”, run under the patronage of the Dicastery for Evangelisation and of the Fabric of St Peter, offers students the opportunity to study the historical, artistic and religious aspects of the Jubilee. It is addressed in particular to people responsible for accompanying and guiding pilgrims on the occasion of the Holy Year 2025. 

• by Philipp G. Renczes, S.J. | Dean of the Faculty of Theology

The Faculty, in collaboration with the General Secretariat of the Synod, has organised an international conference that has brought together a range of experiences from across the globe – from Australia to Germany – that are rarely known to one another, each with its own thematic focus.

Interview with Vittorio V. Alberti for the 20th anniversary of the 'Giuseppe Vedovato' Permanent Seminar

• by Paolo Pegoraro | Editorial Director

The “Giuseppe Vedovato” permanent Seminar on Ethics in International Relations of the Gregorian University is now in its twentieth year. Its aim is the promotion of education and research in the most challenging areas of the social sciences. This means tackling the crisis of democracy and the attacks it faces today, and rediscovering its value for the benefit of all continents, from Europe to Africa.

• by Miguel Coll, S.J. | Faculty of History and Cultural Heritage of the Church

The column "From Yesterday to Today" resumes publication after the first nine instalments devoted to the history of the Roman College from the beginnings (1531) until the birth of the Italian State (1873). It will narrate the history of its direct descendant, the Pontifical Gregorian University, detailing its developments and evolution between the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries.

Remembering Benedict XVI

• by Joseph Carola, S.J. | Faculty of Theology

The Patristics Seminar was the starting point for the development of a strong relationship rooted in shared faith, intellectual research and great affection between the students of the Seminar taught by Fr Joseph Carola, and Joseph Ratzinger. This relationship, which developed almost by chance, was pursued with perseverance and continued until the end of the Pope Emeritus' mortal journey.

• by Altinay Pulido | Head of International Students Office

In its 20 years of existence, the International Students Office has helped many foreign students navigate through the bureaucratic procedures required to stay and study in Italy