ARCHBISHOP FOLEY SCHEDULED TO SPEAK IN ROME AND U.S.

VATICAN CITY, MAR 13, 2001 (VIS) - Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, is scheduled to make a number of speeches in coming days in both Rome and the United States. He is also participating in the council's plenary meeting, which began yesterday in the Vatican. The Holy Father is scheduled to receive the participants later in the week.

Archbishop Foley will speak in Rome on Friday, March 16 to the meeting of European Bishops' Committee for Media on the presence of the Church and of religion in general in the European media. He will also treat the question of the growing tendency to deregulation in the media.

On Monday, March 19, the archbishop will be in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. and will preach the homily at a Mass celebrating the 150th anniversary of his alma mater, St. Joseph's University. That same day he will speak on "Perspective on Jubilee 2000" at the sesquicentennial lecture series at the university.
March 21 the council president will again give a homily during a Mass in St. Martin's Chapel of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia. A day later, he will speak on "Ethics in Communications: May We Say Whatever We Want?" at the Institute of Catholic Studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

His last address in the United States is scheduled for March 23, when we will talk on "Announcing the Good News to a New Millennium: The New Media and The Task of Evangelization" at St. Mary's Seminary in Cleveland.

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