Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Morning – 9:00am

Presides: His Eminence Cardinal Bertone, Secretary of Vatican State

Theme: SIGNIFICANCE OF THE EVENT

Initial Greetings:
- His Eminence Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, Archbishop of Krakow
- Rev. Fr. Marco Tasca, Minister General OFM Conv.
- Representative of the Roman Township
- Prof. Zdzislaw Kijas OFM Conv., President of the Pontifical Theological Faculty St. Bonaventure- Seraphicum

Conference:
“The Church in relation to the problems of the contemporary world: between illuminism and post-modernism” Prof. Rocco Buttiglione (Senator)

Audiovisual Presentation:
“Archbishop Karol Wojtyła and Vatican II” Institute of Journalism and Social Communications (Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow)

Afternoon – 3:00pm

Presides: His Eminence Cardinal William Joseph Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Theme: CHRIST AND THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

Conference:
“The origin and vocation of the human person”
His Excellency Monsignor Ignazio Sanna (Archbishop of Oristano)

Round Table:
- “The verum bonum in the moral teaching of John Paul II”
Prof. Wojciech Giertych OP (Theologian of the Pontifical House)
- “Issues of bioethics and biogenetics: from Vatican II to John Paul II”
Prof. Gonzalo Miranda LC
- “The woman seen in the light of Mary from Vatican II to John Paul II
Prof. Laura Tortorella (Pontifical Theological Faculty St. Bonaventure-Seraphicum)

Conference:
“The family as a place of experience and communion”
His Eminence Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, Archbishop of Bologna