INTERNATIONAL THEOLOGICAL COMMISSION TO HOLD PLENARY

VATICAN CITY, SEP 26, 2000 (VIS) - The International Theological Commission will hold its annual plenary session in the Domus Sanctae Marthae in the Vatican from October 2 to 7, under the presidency of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Fr. Georges Cottier, O.P., secretary general of the commission and theologian of the papal household, will lead the work sessions.

Participants will discuss the theme of the diaconate, for which a 60-page "Instrumentum laboris" has been prepared, and the theme of "Revelation and Inculturation." They will also dedicate time to the presentation of the preparatory reports drafted by the members of the sub-commission which is dealing with the theme "de hominis creatione."

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