VATICAN CITY, MAR 16, 2005 (VIS) - A three-day meeting promoted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace starts this afternoon in the New Synod Hall in the Vatican on the theme "A Call to Justice. The Legacy of 'Gaudium et Spes' 40 Years Later." Cardinal Renato Martino, council president, is scheduled to make welcome remarks and Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano, will give the opening address.
The meetings will be divided into plenary sessions and seminar sessions. Five main speakers will address five different dimensions of "Gaudium et Spes": Cardinal Claudio Hummes, archbishop of Sao Paulo, Brazil, will address the theological and ecclesial foundations; Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Sant'Egidio Community, will give a historical perspective; Rubens Ricupero, former director general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, will speak on "The Call to Justice in the Political Order"; Guy Pognon of Benin will address "A Call to Justice in the Economic Order"; Helen Alvare, a docent at the Catholic University of America, will talk on the role of the family in the social order.
Conference participants intend to examine the scope of the social Magisterium of Vatican Council II through a triple reflection on the philosophical and theological foundations of Catholic social tradition, on the mission of the Church in the social sphere and on her answer to the signs of the times and analysis of great contemporary questions of an economic, political and social nature (globalization, poverty, consumerism, international peace, immigration, terrorism). Analysis of these questions will be accompanied by presentations of concrete models of effective action against poverty, social sin, and suffering in its various forms.
CON-IP/GAUDIUM ET SPES/MARTINO:SODANO VIS 20050316 (290)
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