JUNE 1-4: JUBILEE OF JOURNALISTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 30, 2000 (VIS) - Among the Jubilee celebrations this coming week is the Jubilee of Journalists, which starts on Ascension Thursday, June 1, and concludes with an audience with Pope John Paul on Sunday, June 4, in the Paul VI Hall.
The afternoon of June 1, journalists will be welcomed by Archbishop John Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and by Theresa Ee-Chooi, president of the International Catholic Press Union. Following this they will be divided into smaller groups for guided tours of the Sistine Chapel. The day concludes with the usual 7:30 p.m. Jubilee evening prayer in St. Peter's Square.

On Friday morning, June 2 there will be a conference on "Truth and Witness," featuring Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos and Bishop Pierfranco Pastore. At 5 p.m. there will be a video-conference in worldwide linkup in the Paul VI Hall, in the presence of Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano, Archbishop Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan and Bishop Diarmuid Martin.

At 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 3, journalists will process through the Holy Door at St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls where, at 10, there will be an ecumenical celebration of the Word, presided over by Cardinal Edward Cassidy. At 7:30 that evening in the basilica of St. Mary of the Angels, there will be an organ concert.

Prior to the June 4 audience with the Holy Father, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president of the central Jubilee committee, will celebrate Mass for the journalists.

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