THREE Filipino cardinals are set to lead the 11th edition of the Philippine Conference on New Evangelization (PCNE), which will spotlight reflections on last year’s synod and the Jubilee Year of Hope.
Taking place at the UST Quadricentennial Pavilion from July 18 to 20, this year’s PCNE will have the theme “Padayon: As the Father has sent me, so I send you (Jn 20:21).” “Padayon” is a Cebuano term meaning “continue on.”
PCNE will continue the “Synod on Synodality” discussions by focusing on “synodal witnessing,” or “giving witness in the spirit of synodality and by way of synodality, to our Christian faith,” according to its website.
Cardinals Luis Antonio Tagle, Pablo Virgilio David, and Jose Advincula will be together in the Philippines for the first time since the May 2025 conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV.
Joining them in the discussions is Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines Archbishop Charles Brown.
The Masses for the three-day conference will be presided over by Advincula, Tagle, and Brown, according to PCNE Director Fr. Jason Laguerta.
The General Sessions will follow a panel discussion format, led by Tagle, David, and lay theologian Christina Kheng of Singapore.
PCNE XI, which coincides with the Jubilee Year of Hope, will also have talks on how Catholics could be “patient pilgrims of hope, active sharers of faith, and joyful missionaries of love.”
The event will celebrate the 1,700th anniversary of the first great Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the 75th anniversary of the Proclamation of the Dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
This year’s conference is the first since it was integrated as a national event of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines under the Episcopal Commission on Evangelization and Catechesis on May 20, 2024.
The registration period will run until July 5.
