Saturday, May 7, 2011

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The Holy See opens series of conferences



With the conference "The Pontifical Council for Culture and the cultural politics of the Holy See" cycle began in the XIV Keynote International Book Fair, Santo Domingo 2011. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture of the Vatican, was responsible for this first installment.

The event, held at the Sala Carlos Piantini the National Theatre, attended by the Minister of Culture José Rafael Lantigua, accompanied by Deputy Ministers of Culture, Lourdes Camilo de Cuello, and Alexander Bernarda Jorge Santana, the members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited in the country, government officials, bishops and members of the Armed Forces.

The head table was integrated act Nicolas de Jesus Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez, Alejandro Arvelo, CEO Book Fair, and the Papal Nuncio, Jozef Wesolowski.

Ravasi In his speech addressed several specific issues, among them, faith and science, multiculturalism, the concept of culture, modernity and postmodernity, faith and art and truth, each of which were explained didactically .

reflected on the broad meanings of the word culture, origin, evolution and wealth of cultural diversity. He also talked about communication, its importance and technological advances that facilitate it. Gianfranco Ravasi

born in Merate, Lecco province, decided to join the priesthood rather than teaching Classical Greek and Latin as had been his original desire. He studied at the Seminary of Milan, and was ordained in 1966, the November 20, 2010 he became cardinal deacon of San Gregorio in Velabro.

Eight lectures scheduled to complete the cycle, this fourteenth version of the IDF, with the participation of national and international leading scholars who address a wide range of subjects from religious, sociological, journalistic, literary, cultural and historical.

Pictured .- Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture Vatican, the Papal Nuncio, Jozef Wesolowski, and Alejandro Arvelo, general director of the Frankfurt Book Fair.

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