Vatican City, 23 February 2016 (VIS) –
An international conference entitled "Love will never end.
Prospects ten years on from the Encyclical Deus caritas est"
will be held on Thursday 25 February in the Vatican's New Synod Hall.
Organised by the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum", the
conference forms part of the programme of events for the Jubilee of
Mercy and has the aim of examining in depth the theological and
pastoral implications of Pope Benedict XVI's first Encyclical for
today's world, especially in relation to the activity of those who
work in the Church's charitable service. The event will be attended
by, among others, representatives of the episcopal conferences and
Catholic charitable organisations from all over the world.
The conference will begin with
greetings from Msgr. Giampietro Dal Toso, secretary of the "Cor
Unum", followed by an intervention from Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig
Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
entitled "The Encyclical Deus caritas est: a theological
reading". The subsequent speakers will be Michel Thio, president
of the International Confederation of St. Vincent de Paul, Marina
Almeida Costa, director of Caritas Cabo Verde, and Roy Moussali,
executive director of the Syrian Society for Social Development. In
the afternoon the theme of the meaning of love for the three
monotheistic religions will be considered by Rabbi David Shlomo
Rosen, director of the Department of Religious Affairs of the
American Jewish Committee of Jerusalem, Professor Saeed Ahmed Khan,
lecturer at the Wayne State University of Detroit, U.S.A., and the
philosopher Fabrice Hadjadj, director of the Institut Philanthropos
of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
The second day will begin with a
presentation from Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, archbishop of
Manila, Philippines and president of Caritas Internationalis,
entitled "The importance of Deus caritas est for the charitable
service of the Church today", followed by interventions from
Alejandro Marius, president of the Asociacion Civil Trabajo y
Persona, Venezuela, and Eduardo M. Almeida, representative in
Paraguay of the Inter-American Bank. At midday the participants will
be received in audience by Pope Francis in the Apostolic Palace. The
afternoon session will open with contributions from Rev. Professor
Paolo Asolan, lecturer at the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome,
and Professor Rainer Gehrig, lecturer at the Catholic University of
Murcia, Spain.
The morning sessions will be moderated
by Martina Pastorelli, president of Catholic Voices Italia, and the
afternoon sessions by Professor Luca Tuninetti, lecturer at the
Pontifical Urbanian University, Rome.
Holy Mass will be celebrated on 25 and
26 February at 6 p.m. in the Church of Santa Maria della Pietà in
Camposanto dei Teutonici (Our Lady of Mercy in the German Cemetery).
On the first day Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, president emeritus of
"Cor Unum"; will preside, and on the second, Cardinal
Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the
Discipline of the Sacraments.
The conference will be fully broadcast
by web streaming on the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum"
website, at www.corunumjubilaeum.va .
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