CARDINAL TO TAKE PART IN DIOCESAN ANNIVERSARY, ECUMENICAL MEETING

VATICAN CITY, MAY 11, 1999 (VIS) - A communique today from the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity announced that council president, Cardinal Edward Cassidy, on Sunday, May 16 will take part in the concluding celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the diocese of Pinerolo in northern Italy, presiding over Mass in the cathedral and delivering the homily.

On May 17 at the Synod Hall of the Casa Valdese, or Waldensian House, in Torre Pellice, Cardinal Cassidy and Rev. Paolo Ricca, pastor of the Church of Waldensians, will speak on the "Ecumenical Way of the Churches: Catholics and Evangelicals in Dialogue" at an ecumenical encounter organized by the priests of the diocese and the pastors of the Church of the Waldensians.

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