VATICAN CITY PARISH TO SPONSOR MEETINGS ON THE LAITY

VATICAN CITY, MAY 10, 2001 (VIS) - The pastoral community of Vatican City's St. Anne Parish is sponsoring a series of meetings on "Catholic Laity in Service to the Church." The meetings are all at 5 p.m. and will take place in the Sala del Buon Consiglio in Via del Pellegrino in Vatican City.

The first encounter will be held today, May 10. Guzman Carriquiry, under-secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, will speak on "Laity for the Third Millennium: Witnesses, Prophets, Missionaries."

On Tuesday, May 15, Prof. Giuseppe Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, rector of LUMSA University, will speak on "The Legal, Social and Humanitarian Aspects of Catholic Volunteer Work." On Thursday, May 17, Mario Agnes, director of the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, will address the topic of "The Lay Person in the Church and in the World in the Light of Vatican Council II."

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