VATICAN CITY, DEC 12, 2000 (VIS) - This morning in the Holy See Press Office, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, Archbishop Crescenzio Sepe and Bishop Pierfranco Pastore presented the Jubilee of the World of Entertainment which is due to be held in Rome from December 15 to 17.
Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president of the Central Committee for the Great Jubilee 2000, recalled that this celebration would be the last Jubilee of a specific category. Everyone in the world of entertainment, he said, "has in common the vocation to show, to be shown; both to 'convert,' as bearers of a message, and to 'entertain' as artisans of happiness. ... Yet, before being artists dedicated to entertainment, they are men and women with their own interior, personal, family and professional problems."
Archbishop Crescenzio Sepe, secretary of the Central Committee for the Great Jubilee 2000, affirmed that this Jubilee "intends to discover the most authentic values of entertainment, to promote them and to encourage all endeavors that aim towards respecting people and their dignity." He highlighted that "this is a world of work, often hard and committed work, that involves thousands of people, many of whom humbly toil 'behind the scenes'."
Bishop Pastore, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, announced that, at the present time, 8,000 people have confirmed their participation in this Jubilee. Most of them are Italian but there will be many others from various countries on all continents; among them Belgium, Ivory Coast, Costa Rica, Croatia, France, Kenya, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden and the U.S.A.
The central moment of the Jubilee of the World of Entertainment will be a Mass and the angelus presided over by John Paul II on Sunday, December 17 at 9; 30 a.m. in St. Peter's Square. The entire program was released by VIS on Monday, December 4.
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