Sentences with phrase «vatican meeting»

Dozier's message at the Vatican meeting was as straightforward as the pope's: «Understanding what is happening to the Earth's climate requires systematic collection of data over a period of time measured in decades, not months.

The value of a diverse discussion was never clearer than at the special Vatican meeting just over a year ago at which scientists, church figures, economists, a labor - rights campaigner and others (including me) gathered to ponder this theme: «Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Nature, Our Responsibility.»

(That's why it was so inspiring to see a wide range of participants — from a young labor lawyer to an aged oceanographer — in the Vatican meeting on «Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Planet, Our Responsibility» a year ago.)

As I said in my closing remarks at the Vatican meeting, «Scientific knowledge reveals options; values determine choices.»

Echoing conclusions reached at the recent Vatican meeting of scientists, theologians and others on sustainable development, he spoke yesterday about the human responsibility for «wise stewardship» of the environment, both for our own sake («If we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us!»)

Updated A daylong Vatican meeting on climate, energy, ecology and equity has produced a declaration that offers a promising vision for religious and secular leaders eager to foster a sustainable human journey.

Postscript, May 3 Jeff Sachs, the head of Columbia University's Earth Institute and one of the organizers of the Vatican meeting, has written a Project Syndicate column on the meeting, including this:

Pope Francis met with U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon ahead of a Vatican meeting on moral issues related to climate change.

Those twin themes resonated throughout the Vatican meeting and have built since then, particularly in a speech delivered in London on Nov. 7 by Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, who, as chancellor of both pontifical academies, was the chief organizer of the Vatican sustainability workshop.

Disclosure note In my role as Pace University's Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding, I was a participant in last year's related Vatican meeting, «Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Nature: Our Responsibility.»

A group statement has emerged from «Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Planet, Our Responsibility,» the Vatican meeting of scientists, economists, theologians and others that I participated in earlier this month.

With human perception of time and environmental change in mind, I hope you'll read the invaluable essay on «Existential Risks» contributed by Martin J. Rees, the Cambridge University cosmologist and Astronomer Royal of England, at the 2014 Vatican meeting that built much of the foundation for Pope Francis's encyclical on humans and the environment.

(I was a participant in last year's four - day Vatican meeting on «Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Planet, Our Responsibility»; read my summary here.)

After all, I often find myself agreeing with what Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, a close adviser to Pope Francis, said at the 2014 Vatican meeting on «sustainable humanity» that went on to underpin much of Francis's encyclical: «Nowadays man finds himself to be a technical giant and an ethical child.»

Yesterday it was in Namibia, today it is at the Vatican meeting important people.

Several days ago, an article from the Associated Press appeared, with the provocative headline, «Vatican Meeting of Mideast Bishops Demands Israel End Occupation of Palestinian Lands.»

CNN: Nuns brace for Vatican meeting The leadership of America's largest group of Catholic nuns will head to the Vatican on Tuesday to address accusations that it strayed from church doctrine.

Not exact matches

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Trump at length about the issue during a meeting in Brussels, and even at the Vatican, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin made his own pro-Paris pitch to Trump and his advisers.

The effort grew out of our meeting at the Vatican in 2016 and a follow - up in New York last September, and we will be gathering again in San Francisco June 25 - 26 this year.

Vatican City (AFP)- Pope Francis on Monday blasted the «money stained with blood» and «evil power» wielded by Italian organised crime as he met the heads of the country's anti-mafia squad.

The document is Pope Francis» official response to the two major meetings of bishops he hosted at the Vatican to discuss marriage and family issues — the Extraordinary Synod on the Family in 2014 and Synod of the Bishops in 2015.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

June 9, 2007 — Meets with U.S. President George W. Bush at the Vatican, the first meeting between the two.

According to Vatican Radio, the pope told the young crowd he wanted to meet with them «for selfish reasons... because you have in your heart a promise of hope.»

I have met some of the Jesuit astronomers who work with Vatican Observatories and they take their science (and spirituality) VERY seriously.

It was the Catholicism that successfully met the challenge of twentieth - century totalitarianism, and in its last stages, helped prepare the ground for the Second Vatican Council.

He'll dodder around vatican city, show up at ransom meetings and shout, «No, no, you're doing it all wrong!»

The historian Jules Isaac... obtained an interview with Pius XII in June 1949 and felt he was heard «with good will and understanding sympathy»... During the 1950's, the signs of understanding increased in the Vatican media, particularly at Christmas or Unity Week; the philo - Semitic orientation of certain religious orders; the effort to understand Judaism in theology schools, and meetings in ecumenical settings, no longer met with distrust by Roman Congregations.

After one such meeting in June of 1957, the NY Times quoted a top Vatican official, saying the Church had opened «a new chapter» toward the Jewish community.

The president was invited to the Vatican to discuss a variety of issues with the pope today, and though Obama has expressed admiration for Pope Francis, there's speculation that the meeting may become touchy at times.

The Roman Catholic Church's cardinals will meet at the Vatican to elect a successor.

A Vatican spokesman told CNN, «The Holy See Press Office has no official comment on the private meeting.»

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, initially surprised by the Vatican's report last month, «plans to move slowly, not rushing to judgment» when the group's 21 - member board meets for three days in Washington, D.C., beginning Tuesday.

(CNN)-- The showdown between the Vatican and America's largest group of Catholic nuns is expected to peak this week when group leaders will meet to determine a response to the Vatican's reprimand for the group's «radical feminist themes.»

The cardinal's first steps were announced to the heads of the Vatican's departments during their meeting with the Pope.

«The Ordinariate haven't got a clue with whom they're dealing - their representatives sat round a table in the Vatican at secret meetings with His Grace Archbishop Nichols - drafting provisions and formulating an Ordinariate and expecting that His Holiness's requests on their behalf would be fulfilled.

The cardinals - who come from North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe - will first meet in October, the Vatican said.

Parish priests of Rome's diocese attend a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Paul VI Hall on February 14, 2013 in Vatican City, Vatican.

In April, Noreen's family met Pope Francis at the Vatican, where he prayed for her and for all suffering Christians.

The Vatican's upcoming meeting on family life has spurred broad speculation about a new openness to divorced and remarried Catholics.

At the same time, cardinals were meeting Friday at the Vatican to participate in a day of reflection and prayer on several church matters, including the Vatican's response to cases of sexual abuse.

As the world marked the silver anniversary of the Polish elections of June 1989, which eventually brought to power the first non-communist Polish prime minister since the Second World War, a conference met at the Vatican to consider «The Church in the Moment of Change in 1980 - 1989 in East Central Europe.»

The two met during a three - daylong series of discussions at the Vatican about the fourth annual international conference called Unite to Cure: A Global Health Care Initiative.

Former rebels are also expected to attend but the Vatican and Colombian organisers have given no indication that the FARC leadership will come, or even meet Francis during his visit, reflecting the freshness of the conflict's wounds and sensitivities stirred by any public appearance of still - despised former guerrillas.

The pope greeted Katy Perry during a major meeting of health experts, faith groups, politicians and donors at the Vatican during the weekend.

The Leadership Conference's 22 - member board said that its leaders would travel to Rome this month to meet with the head of the Vatican's Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the office that launched an investigation of the American nuns several years ago.

Acknowledging the Church's unique relationship with Judaism, he then met separately with Jewish leaders to whom he offered a Passover message that included the words of Vatican II that the Church can not forget «that she draws sustenance from the root of that well - cultivated olive tree onto which have been grafted the wild shoots, the gentiles.»

It was the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council and the 1968 meeting of the Latin American bishops at Medellin that released the energies of Latin American priests and theologians to act and think in new channels.

Between that meeting and this year's, a Vatican - appointed committee produced a document.

After a tenuous relationship on Twitter during the run - up to last year's presidential election, The Vatican confirmed yesterday that President Donald Trump will meet with Pope Francis on...