The 2025 NEW YORK ENCOUNTER, “Here Begins a New Life”, will take place February 14-16 in person and live streamed from the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street in Manhattan. The Encounter is a three-day cultural event organized by members of Communion and Liberation featuring panel discussions, artistic performances, and exhibits to witness the Catholic faith in the public square. All events are FREE and no registration is required. All are invited!
The Encounter will open with a presentation by Philippe Villeneuve, Chief Architect of the Restauration of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, introduced by Card. O’Malley, Archbishop Emeritus of Boston. Cardinal Dolan will celebrate the Mass on Sunday February 16, at 8:30am
Some highlights from the program: a discussion on loneliness and malaise in today’s society with Robert Putnam, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University, and Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies at MIT; eyewitness accounts of Christians in the Holy Land; conversations on demographic decline with Nicholas Eberstadt, American Enterprise Institute, and Brad Wilcox, Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia, and to know more about climate change with Kerry Emanuel, Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT, and David Romps, Professor of Planetary Science, University of California; a presentation with theologian John Milbank of In Search of the Human Face, the latest book by the Servant of God Fr. Luigi Giussani, founder of Communion and Liberation; a discussion on the roots of the American political crisis with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture and Social Theory, University of Virginia, and Paul Kahn, Professor of Law and the Humanities, Yale University; a dialogue on the need to renew goals and methods of education in the U.S. with David Steiner, Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education. The Encounter will end with the presentation of two young modern saints: Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, with Card. Pierre, Papal Nuncio to the U.S, Antonia Salzano, Carlo Acutis’ mother, and Christine Wohar, Founder, FrassatiUSA, Inc. Click here to download the full program.
These events and many others can be found at https://www.newyorkencounter.org.
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