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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The realisation of a new integral humanism open to transcendence which is the essential finality of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church, is not foreign, indeed it connatural with the goals of Catholic Universities. This common commitment will be discussed by representatives from over 150 Catholic Universities all over the world, together with experts and scholars from different countries, at a meeting in Rome 17, 18 November, organised by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education. Already numerous Catholic universities on different continents have said they will participate: 65 in Europe, 31 in Africa, 28 in South America, 15 in North America, 10 in Asia, 5 in Oceania.
In the spirit of recent discourses by Pope Benedict XVI at the Lateran and Gregorian Universities, the Conference will discuss how the Social Teaching of the Church can help Catholic universities reach their scientific and educational goals. The work will be introduced by the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace Cardinal Renato Martino, and the prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski.
The opening address will be given by the Pope’s vicar for the diocese of Rome, Cardinal Camillo Ruini, on the theme “Anthropological and Social Questions Today”. He will be followed by Archbishop Jozef Zycinsky of Lublin, on “Catholic Social Doctrine and the Inter-disciplinary Dimension”. In the afternoon of 17 November rectors and docents of various collages, economists, jurists and experts in other disciplines, will speak on relations between the Church’s Social Doctrine and philosophy and theology, while on Saturday 18 the theme will be relations with scientific research and formation. In the afternoon there will be a Panel Discussion on continental experiences of fruitful relations between Social Doctrine and University, with two final interventions on the use of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church in Catholic universities. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 10/11/2006 - Righe 25; Parole 322)
