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ON MONDAY NOVEMBER 21, BENEDICT XVI will visit the Pontifical Academy of Social
Sciences, which is currently celebrating its plenary session on the theme: "The
conceptualization of the human person in the social sciences." During the
plenary session, the theme will be considered from various standpoints: from
the point of view of the Church's Magisterium by Cardinal Angelo Scola,
patriarch of Venice, Italy; in its philosophical aspects by Cardinal Georges
Cottier O.P., and by Rocco Buttiglione and Enrico Berti, Italian university
professors; and from a sociological and economic viewpoint by Serge-Christophe
Kolm of the "Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales" of Paris, France.
Also during the session, Mary Ann Glendon, president of the pontifical academy,
and the scholar Hans Zacher will present the book: "Democracy in Debate: the
Contribution of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences."

ARCHBISHOP JOHN P. FOLEY, PRESIDENT OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL for Social
Communications, yesterday participated in the United Nations World Summit on
the Information Society, which is being held in Tunis, Tunisia. In his address,
the archbishop recalled how new technologies give us "the opportunity to
connect and assist those living in the poorest and most isolated regions of the
world and to offer a voice to those who in the past have often been unheard and
forgotten." He continued: "The challenge of narrowing or even closing the
so-called 'digital divide,' the current disparity in the access to digital
communications between developed and developing countries, requires the joint
effort of the entire international community."

"PILGRIMS AND SHRINES, GIFTS OF THE GOD-LOVE IN ASIA TODAY" is the theme of the
second Asiatic congress on the pastoral care of pilgrimages and shrines, which
is being promoted by the Pontifical Care for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and
Itinerant Peoples and is due to be held in Seoul, Korea, on November 21 to 23.
The meeting will be attended by 90 pilgrimage directors and rectors of shrines,
who will have the opportunity to share their experiences in order to identify
shared pastoral criteria. The work of the congress will be opened by Cardinal
Stephen Fumio Hamao, president of the pontifical council, who will speak on the
subject of shrines as "privileged places where God welcomes His people ... and
where ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue is favored," especially in a
continent such as Asia where shrines are frequented by pilgrims from various
Churches and ecclesial communities, as well as by believers from other
religious traditions.
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