Year-Round Mentoring Group on Engaging Roman Catholicism

with Leonardo De Chirico

What Graduates Are Saying

"It has helped to better understand my own culture, as it is still very much influenced by Catholicism. It has given me the knowledge to be able to help other evangelical Christians in my country to better understand Roman Catholicism. It gave me a better understanding of Roman Catholic theology and practice and the implications of Vatican II theology in practice."

Pedro Fonseca, GBU Portugal

 
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Programme Overview

Goal:

To support, equip, and mentor:

  • Emerging evangelical academics who are seeking to study Roman Catholicism.

  • Evangelical leaders and laity to better understand Roman Catholicism, including the similarities and differences between evangelicalism and Roman Catholicism.

  • Evangelical leaders and laity in how to understand, love, and communicate the Gospel to their Roman Catholic family and friends.

Qualifications:

All participants should be mature Christians involved in ministry (e.g. student ministry, pastoral ministry, media, theological training, relevant research) related to Roman Catholic contexts and/or Roman Catholic issues.

 

Plan:

Leonardo De Chirico will mentor a group of 10-12 leaders.

  • Pre-Forum Seminar at the 2025 Forum in Wisła, Poland on 17 May (14:00-17:30 CEST)

  • Five two-hour webinars and webinar assignments

  • Three-day retreat from noon to noon on 2-4 December 2025 (Budapest, Hungary)

  • Pre-Forum Conference at the 2026 Forum (Friday, 15 May, dinner together – Saturday, 16 May, morning). Participants will still need to apply for the Forum and will be responsible for paying Forum fees in order to participate in the 2025 Forum. Participants must also pay for their own travel expenses.

 
 
 
 

YRM Leader

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Leonardo De Chirico (PhD, King’s College, London) is pastor of the Church Breccia di Roma and lecturer in historical theology at the Istituto di Formazione Evangelica e Documentazione IFED in Padova. He blogs on Vatican and Roman Catholic issues from an evangelical perspective at Vatican Files. He is also director of the Reformanda Initiative and cohost of the Reformanda Initiative podcast, and is author of several books, including Evangelical Theological Perspectives on post-Vatican II Roman Catholicism (2003), A Christian’s Pocket Guide to the Papacy (2015), A Christian’s Pocket Guide to Mary (2017), and Same Words, Different Worlds. Do Roman Catholics and evangelicals believe the same gospel? (2021).

 Application Process

To apply:

  1. Thoroughly review the curriculum.

  2. Complete the online application.

  3. All applications will be reviewed. We will notify you whether or not you have been accepted as a participant in the 2025-26 programme within four to six weeks.

If you have questions, contact us at initiatives@euroleadership.org.