Join the Global Catholic Research Initiative and the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture for the inaugural GCRI Visiting Fellow Lecture, featuring Rev. Roberto Regoli on “Pope Leo XIV: The First Year.” Regoli will offer reflections on the first year of Pope Leo XIV’s papacy and its significance for understanding Catholicism as a dynamic, global tradition.
Rev. Regoli is a professor of contemporary Church history and former director of the Department of History and Cultural Heritage of the Church at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, as well as the recently appointed president of the Vatican Foundation Joseph Ratzinger–Benedict XVI. A visiting fellow of the de Nicola Center and the inaugural Global Catholic Research Initiative fellow, Father Regoli’s research focuses on the contemporary papacy from Pius VII to Benedict XVI, particularly in the realm of pontifical diplomacy.
He serves as editor of the journal Archivum Historiae Pontificiae and is the author of Beyond the Crises in the Church: The Pontificate of Benedict XVI (St. Augustine’s Press, 2024). In collaboration with the de Nicola Center, he helped to organize the 2024 international conference “Benedict XVI’s Legacy: Unfinished Debates on Faith, Culture, and Politics.” Learn more about his research and appointment here.
We invite the campus community to join us for Regoli’s lecture. A reception will immediately follow the lecture.
Originally published at strategicframework.nd.edu.