On August 3-7, 2022, prof.
Martín Carbajo Núñez will be a Breakout Presenter at a congress organized by the OFS National Council to celebrate the 800th Anniversary of the OFS Rule’s canonical acceptance. It will be also the 100 anniversary of celebrating the Quinquennial Congress in the United States. Over 500 have already registered for the event.
Prof. Carbajo will impart three conferences, 50 minutes each, on the current relevance of the Franciscan intelectual tradition and Charism. The sessions will be held at the conference auditorium of the Sheraton hotel, in downtown Phoenix. The Congress has been originally planned to take place on Thursday and Friday, August 19-20, 2021, but finally it has been moved to August 3-7, 2022 due to the Covid-19 pandemy .
Materials and
videos of the presentations will be available on the website (
here)
Here there is a short presentation of prof. Carbajo’s talks:
Thursday 1:30-2:30 pm
1) Revitalizing our life as Franciscans: Ethical challenges and leadership
In this talk, I will explore the possible ways of animating our life as Franciscans in a time marked by sociocultural change, social tensions and vocational crisis. It seems that a part of the Franciscans have their prophetic soul sickened, that they have lost the capacity of hoping and dreaming. However, Pope Francis reminds us that this is a time of hope and new prophecy. Therefore, they need the audacity and creativity of St Francis of Assisi to retake the core of their own charism and find the way of incarnating it today.
Thursday 3:00-4:00 pm
2) Being Franciscan in the Digital Era
The talk will present the relevance of the Franciscan Tradition in addressing today’s ethical challenges in economics, ecology, and communication. In the last decades, the Franciscan approach has acquired a renewed relevance, as the post-conciliar ecclesiastical Magisterium has clearly recognized it.
Friday 1:30-2:30 pm
3) The importance of the Franciscan tradition in the formation of Modern culture
In the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Franciscans made a remarkable contribution in many different aspects of science and society (economics, epistemology, politics, ethnography, etc.), laying the basis for the development of modern science
