Summary 2026

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Edition 3/2026 of Polyedrum focuses on the Pastoral Care in School and Universities, which is also the heart of the International Congress of the same title, organized by the Dicastery for Culture and Education on 22 and 23 October 2026. It stands in continuity with Pope Leo XIV's Letter "Drawing New Maps of Hope" and with the three new goals of the Global Compact on Education. 

The theme of pastoral care in schools and universities is approached from both a theoretical and a practical perspective, in order to highlight its many facets and the creativity of its possible applications.

Editorial

Card. José Tolentino de Mendonça

Apostolic Letter Drawing new maps of hope

Leo XIV

Apostolic Letter Magnifica Humanitas (selected excerpts)

Leo XIV

Essays | Saggi

 

A pastoral universitária: o coração do corpus da universidade católica

Leonardo Agostini

 

The Sanctity of the School: A Christological Pedagogy

Mary C. Gergely

 

De «dire Dieu à l'école» à «l'école qui dit Dieu»

Joseph Herveau

 

John Henry Newman's "Campaign in Ireland": The Academic and Pastoral Vision of the Catholic University

Paul Shrimpton

 

La formación universitaria en el pensamiento de G.B. Montini - Pablo VI durante su periodo como Asistente de la FUCI (1925-1933)

Alfonso Martínez-Carbonell López

 

Catholic Pastoral and Prophetic Responses to a Secularizing Landscape

John Sullivan

 

Parler de Dieu à l'Ecole avec la philosophe Simone Weil

Géraldine Maugars

 

Conversación en el espíritu como conversación sanadora

María Marcela Mazzini

 

La escucha y comprensión de la ecologia integral

Manuel Ortuño Arregui

 

El rol de la Pastoral Universitaria en el Pacto Educativo Global

Agustín Podestá Brignole

 

La pastoral educativa en la configuración de una cultura educativa institucional: Retos y desafios

José María Flórez-Jaimes, José S. Torres-Muñoz, Edith González-Bernal

 

Atualizzare la circolarità tra speranza ed educazione

Pierpaolo Triani

 

Éducation des jeunes à la paix, à la fraternité et au dialogue. Expériences pastorales en lien avec Fratelli tutti

Geoffrey Legrand

 

Principal accompaniment in Australian faith-based schools: A salutogenesis approach

William Sultmann, David Hall, Janine Lamb

 

Parler de Dieu a temps et à contretemps

Geneviève Verdaguer

 

Educar desde la escucha: una experiencia universitaria en clave antropológica y esperanzadora

Gregorio Aboín Martín, Sylvia Cano Reguero

 

Carisma Salesiano e missione universitaria. Una prospettiva dei Salesiani di don Bosco

Michal Voitáš

 

La pastorale scolaire dans l'École catholique dans le contexte français

Pierre Robitaille

 

La mission de l'aumônier dans le déploiement d'une communauté universitaire catholique. L'expérience de l'Université Catholique du Congo

Grégoire Maloba

 

Visual essay | Saggio visivo |

 

Caring for the Earth in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Fragility and Planetary Habitability through Bajo Nuestros Pies

Martín Tironi, Manuela Garretón