PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES TO HOLD PLENARY

VATICAN CITY, MAR 1, 1999 (VIS) - The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences will hold its fifth plenary session from March 3 to 6 in the Pius IV House in the Vatican on the theme "Towards Reducing Unemployment." A majority of the 33 academicians from all continents are scheduled to participate, according to today's communique from Edmond Malinvaud, academy president.

The academy was founded in January 1994 by John Paul II with the aim of promoting the study and progress of social, economic, political and juridical sciences, and to thus offer the Church useful elements to be able to study in depth and to develop her social doctrine. For the past four years the academy has been working on two themes chosen during the inaugural session in November 1994: work and employment, and democracy.

The press release states that "there is need to analyze the meaning of the Catholic concept of work and employment in contexts which are different from past ones, ... such as, for example, those predominating in Asia. ... But the session will, in great part, be devoted to the study of institutional norms and economic and social policies relative to work and employment."

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