{"id":604902,"date":"2026-09-03T21:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604902\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T21:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:10:10","slug":"notre-dame-to-launch-jerusalem-forum-with-cardinal-pizzaballa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604902\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame to launch Jerusalem forum with Cardinal Pizzaballa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Notre Dame and Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, are set to launch a new academic forum in Jerusalem, the university announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nd.edu\/news\/latin-patriarchate-of-jerusalem-to-launch-academic-forum-in-partnership-with-notre-dame\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> on September 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin Your Gates: The Forum for the Universal Vocation of Jerusalem\u201d will be hosted in partnership with Notre Dame Jerusalem, the school\u2019s academic centre in Jerusalem. The forum will be officially launched on September 7, said the university.<\/p>\n<p>The forum will be an \u201cinterdisciplinary research initiative\u201d consisting of scholars and practitioners from a variety of faiths, to \u201cengage with Jerusalem\u2019s universal mission and its significance for those who reside within the Holy Land and beyond\u201d, said the University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of our most important responsibilities as Christians is to discern God\u2019s call for us and to use our talents and gifts to serve Him and the world,\u201d said Rev Gregory Haake, CSC, vice president for mission engagement and church affairs, in Tuesday\u2019s press release.<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cThis forum creates a space for us to discern Jerusalem\u2019s unique vocation of bringing together peoples of many faiths to build bridges and to receive God\u2019s call to be peacemakers. I am proud that Notre Dame is working with Cardinal Pizzaballa to realize this vision of how discovering Jerusalem\u2019s vocation can lead us to knowledge of our own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Schwake, the director of Notre Dame Jerusalem, will lead the new forum. Cardinal Pizzaballa will chair the Board of Promoters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mission of earthly Jerusalem is to become the image and mirror of heavenly Jerusalem, a prophecy and promise of that universal reconciliation and peace which God desires for the whole human family,\u201d said Cardinal Pizzaballa. \u201cIt is to this mission that we must return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The forum aims to produce \u201capplied interdisciplinary research\u201d that is rooted in the \u201cparticular realities\u201d of the city of Jerusalem, said the press release. Research will be \u201coriented towards questions of daily life that resonate beyond the city and the surrounding region, exploring themes such as the theological significance of Jerusalem, the city\u2019s universal vocation, the language of conflict and reconciliation, and agency under conditions of constraint\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u200d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Notre Dame and Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, are set to launch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-604902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}