The Centro Pro Unione, founded and directed by the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, is an ecumenical research and action center. Its purpose is to give space for dialogue, to be a place for study, research, and formation in ecumenism: theological, pastoral, social, and spiritual. The Centro accomplishes its goals by:
- Publishing the semiannual Centro Pro Unione Bulletin
- Summer course in Ecumenism
- Conferences and lectures
- Cooperation and collaboration with other ecumenical organizations and agencies
- The Annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
The Centro was inaugurated in 1968 and is situated in the heart of Rome's Piazza Novana, in the historic and beautiful palazzo belonging to the Doria Pamphilj family. It consists of a library of three rooms, a meeting room, and a large hall for conferences on ecumenism.
The Library has 300 periodicals, 17,000 books and pamphlets fully catalogued on-line with the ALE program and the information network URBE; over 18,000 records of inter-church and inter-confessional theological dialogues, both national and international; studies of the World Council of Churches; major world and regional ecumenical assemblies; confessional liturgy and spirituality; international survey of ecumenical centers.
Each summer the Centro Pro Unione offers a Summer Course in Ecumenism for three weeks entitled Introduction to the Ecumenical and Interreligious Movements from a Roman Catholic Perspective.
For additional information about the Centro Pro Unione, visit their website at http://www.prounione.urbe.it
