Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania, along with Penn’s Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society, will host a rapid response panel on the local and global significance of the visit by Pope Francis to Philadelphia.

The event will take place on Tuesday, September 29 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Amado Recital Hall in Irvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce Street. A reception will follow.

The panelists will be:

• Melissa Rogers, a Penn Law graduate and special assistant to the president and executive director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

• Sister Mary Scullion, president and executive director of Project HOME, a nonprofit seeking to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty (Almanac May 27, 2008). In 2009, she was named by Time magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World.”

• John DiIulio, a Penn alumnus; Penn’s Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion and Civil Society and professor of political science; and director of Penn’s Robert A. Fox Leadership Program and Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society.

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged at http://PWHPopeDiscussion.eventbrite.com