The audience was held in Vatican City’s Paul VI Hall. Photo: Vatican Media

Pope Francis gives new statutes (and mission) to the Pontifical Academy of Theology

With an Apostolic Letter promulgated on November 1st, Pope Francis updates the statutes of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, providing it with new competences for a fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue. The new Statutes also introduce a new form of collaboration, which involves Referring Interlocutors, scholars from other Christian confessions or religions, who are called to identify and create areas and spaces for dialogue that promote inter- and transdisciplinary discourse.