In Spes Non Confundit ("Hope does not disappoint," Romans 5:5), Pope Francis declared hope the central message of the 2025 Jubilee Year. It’s also the theme of DePaul’s annual World Catholicism Week event. Free of charge, this conference will look for signs of hope amid mounting global challenges that drive many to anxiety, cynicism, and despair. Keynoter Dylan Corbett, founder/executive director of Hope Border Institute, joins speakers from a variety of disciplines to explore:
* Theologies, spiritualities, and practices of hope, from large-scale projects to everyday exemplars
* Structural barriers to hope
* How hope differs from optimism
* The interplay between hope and patience
* How those on the margins manage to practice hope even in the most hopeless of circumstances
