Berkley Center

How does Pope Francis’ idea of a culture of encounter relate to challenges of global governance? In these essays, participants in the Culture of Encounter and the Global Agenda Project reflect on different aspects of this question.

Constantin Sigov, who lives in Kyiv, shares his reflections on the war and the heroic Ukrainian resistance. Two other project participants, Jose Casanova and Julia Murao-Permoser, share broader reflections on the significance of the idea of a culture of encounter in a time of war.

Feminism might not be the main problem facing the Church. On the contrary, rather than banishing the very term “gender” to a Syllabus of errors as ideological anathema, a proper response to the feminist challenge could in fact be a solution to many of the contemporary problems facing the Church.