On Thursday 21 November 2024, at 11.00, a press conference will be held in the Holy See Press Office, Via della Conciliazione 54, to present the Holy Father’s Letter on the renewal of the study of Church history, in continuity with the Letter of the Holy Father Francis on the role of literature in formation, published on 4 August 2024.

The speakers will be:

- His Eminence Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik, prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy;

- Archbishop Andrés Gabriel Ferrada Moreira, secretary of the same Dicastery;

- Professor Andrea Riccardi, president of the Danti Alighieri Society, former ordinary professor of contemporary history at the University of Bari, and at La Sapienza University and the Third University of Rome.

The press conference will be livestreamed in the original language on the Vatican News YouTube channel, at https://www.youtube.com/c/VaticanNews.