FIFTH PUBLIC SESSION OF PONTIFICAL ACADEMIES HELD TODAY

VATICAN CITY, NOV 7, 2000 (VIS) - This morning in the Vatican, the fifth public session of the Council for Coordinating Pontifical Academies was celebrated under the presidency of Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the council. The theme of the gathering was: "For a renewed Epiphany of beauty: Artists as protagonists of Christian humanism."

Taking part in today's session were members of the Pontifical Academies of St. Thomas Aquinas, of Theology and of Mary Immaculate as well as members of the International Marian Pontifical Academy, the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Literature "dei Virtuosi al Pantheon," The Pontifical Roman Academy of Archeology and the Pontifical Academy "Cultorum Martyrum."

Following speeches by professors and academics, interspersed with classical music, Cardinal Poupard, who is also president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, gave an address and presented, in the name of John Paul II, the Pontifical Academies' prize.

...;PONTIFICAL ACADEMIES SESSION;...;POUPARD;VIS;20001107;Word: 160;