The Pontifical Gardens of Castel Gandolfo host from this Wednesday the first edition of the Borgo Dialogues, a meeting promoted by the Laudato Si’ Center for Advanced Formation that will bring together representatives from the business, university, cultural, social, and ecclesial worlds to discuss some of the great contemporary challenges, from artificial intelligence to population aging.
According to Vatican News, the forum will be held from June 17 to 19 at the Borgo Laudato Si’, the project driven by the Holy See in the Pontifical Villas to develop initiatives inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’.
A forum driven from the Laudato Si’ project
The meeting is organized by the Laudato Si’ Center for Advanced Formation in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame, Deloitte Switzerland, and Handshake Strategies.
The Borgo Laudato Si’ has been presented as a space dedicated to education on integral ecology, environmental sustainability, and circular economy. Its promoters seek to translate some of the principles of the encyclical Laudato si’ into concrete and replicable practices.
In this framework, the Borgo Dialogues aim to bring together representatives of companies, international organizations, universities, cultural entities, civil society, and ecclesial bodies to exchange perspectives on issues that affect the future of contemporary societies.
The organizers have indicated that the debates will be focused on issues present in the encyclicals Laudato si’, Fratelli tutti, and Magnifica Humanitas of Leo XIV.
Among the topics planned include environmental sustainability, artificial intelligence, fraternal relations between peoples, new humanism, and the challenges derived from population aging.
The initiative has been conceived as a dialogue forum between institutions and actors coming from diverse fields, with intent to favor the exchange of experiences and the development of shared responses to global problems.
The cardinal Baggio defends dialogue between distinct perspectives
The Cardinal Fabio Baggio, subsecretary of the Dicastery for the Service of Human Integral Development and director general of the Laudato Si’ Center for Advanced Formation, explained that the forum will address issues already proposed by the recent social encyclicals.
According to the purpurate, these are topics that affect the core of current discussions and the sustainability of the future, from artificial intelligence to aging, alongside other issues that emerge during the different sessions of the meeting.
Baggio highlighted further that the participants are coming from locations and perspectives differently, and the objective is to promote a dialogue oriented to thinking of a common future.
Castel Gandolfo as a space of encounter
The initiative seeks to consolidate itself as a permanent platform of dialogue between academic institutions, business companies, social organizations, and ecclesial leaders.
Its first edition, according to statements by Vatican media, will serve for measuring the interest and the calling ability of a project that seeks to convert Castel Gandolfo into a space of encounter to address some of the principal cultural, social, and technological challenges of our time.