On August 23, 2023, Prof. Martín Carbajo Núñez, OFM, will give a lecture on "The Franciscan Perspective on Work and its Relevance in Today" as part of the Friar Jacopa National Conference that the Franciscan Fraternity "Frate Jacopa" in Predazzo, Northern Italy, anually organizes. This year it will be held in attendance, August 21-25, 2023, in the Aula Magna of the Predazzo town hall.  

Prof. Carbajo had already participated in a previous edition of this event that was held on August 23-23, 2021. Years earlier, on December 14, 2012, he had also given a lecture on the theme, "The Pilgrim and the Tourist."

Prof. Carbajo had already participated in a previous edition of this event held on August 23-23, 2021. Years earlier, on December 14, 2012, he had also given a lecture on the theme: "The Pilgrim and the Tourist."

Draft of the program:

The conference continues this year's reflection on the decisive theme of peace by identifying "Steps of Peace to Regenerate Spaces of Life," in the care for the increasingly urgent environmental issue, in the attention to the economic sphere that is increasingly a harbinger of very strong inequalities, in the care for the recovery of the founding values of the dignity of labor, and in the discernment that cannot be postponed for civil and democratic participation.

Title "STEPS OF PEACE, TO REGENERATE SPACES OF LIFE."

The conference will be held in the Aula Magna of the Town Hall, under the Patronage of the Municipality of Predazzo, over four days (Aug. 21,22,23,25, from 5 to 7 p.m.). It will be held in presence and live streamed.

August 21. Greeting by Mayor Maria Bosin. Opening Conference (Argia Passoni FFFJ).
Rel. Prof. Simone Morandini (Theology of Creation and Ecumenism, Director 'Credere oggi'- Theological Faculty Triveneto, ISE, S. Bernardino Venezia ) on the theme "Peace with the earth. Peace in the earth."

Aug. 22. Rel. Prof. Leonardo Becchetti (Political Economy, Director Civil Economy Festival -University of Rome Tor Vergata) on the theme "Civil Economy: way of peace."

Aug. 23. Rel. Prof. Martín Carbajo Nuñez ofm (Moral Theology and Ethics of Communication - Pontifical University Antonianum, Alfonsianum and FST in USA) on "Franciscan Perspective on Work and its Current Relevance"

Aug. 25. Rel. Prof. Ernesto Preziosi (Historian, Director of 'Argomenti 2000' - Catholic University of the Sacred Heart) on the theme "Civil and democratic participation, indispensable to the building of peace."

Complementing the Conference are testimonies from the local reality in the Section "Listening to the Territory"