Sentences with phrase «at vatican»

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The statue of St. Peter towers over prelates attending a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis on the Sunday of Divine Mercy, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 8, 2018.

On 11 November, six Nobel Peace laureates attending a high - level symposium on nuclear disarmament at the Vatican provided His Holiness Pope Francis with a two - page statement that includes a call to ban fully autonomous weapons before they appear on the battlefield.

At the Vatican in December, Nobel Peace Laureates presented Pope Francis with a joint statement flagging the urgent need to prohibit fully autonomous weapons before they appear on the battlefield.

2009 — AFN Chief Phil Fontaine meets Pope Benedict XVI at Vatican.

Top judges from around the globe gathered at the Vatican last week for the Judges» Summit on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime.

One of the scientists mentioned - in the book and hinted at in the FBI report, Paul Crutzen, has a Nobel Prize and recently hosted a conference on melting glaciers at the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

Patrick Michaels published a piece in the National Review one day prior to a meeting between Pope Francis and the Secretary - General at the Vatican to dicuss climate change.

A recent event at the Vatican showed how economic growth, climate action and poverty alleviation can occur simultaneously.

Dozier, one of 30 participants, represented NASA at the event held at the Vatican March 12 to 16.

Brown will give the keynote speech this week at the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences workshop, titled «Health of People, Health of Planet and our Responsibility: Climate Change, Air Pollution and Health.»

In a speech delivered at the Vatican Saturday, Pope Francis denounced making political decisions based on fear, because fear «weakens and destabilizes us, destroys our psychological and spiritual defenses, and numbs us to the suffering of others,» he said.

VATICAN CITY — Papal heavies shut down an awkward question at a Vatican press conference today when a journalist asked UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon his views on climate sceptics.

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.

At the Vatican proceedings, Dozier himself spoke of the view from on high.

The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) sent representatives to the conference on climate change at the Vatican.

«Indeed, they are fully aligned,» Ban Ki - moon, the United Nations secretary - general, said at the Vatican during a conference on climate change and poverty.

U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon (first row, center), Italian President Sergio Mattarella (first row, to Ban's left) and Ecuador President Rafael Correa (first row, to Ban's right) attend a summit on climate change and sustainable development at the Vatican, Tuesday, April 28, 2015.

He has testified as an expert witness on the theology, ethics, science, and economics of climate change policy before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce; briefed the White House Council on Environmental Policy; delivered a paper at a conference at the Vatican sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; and spoken at the 2008, 2009, and 2010 International Conferences on Climate Change and at colleges, churches, and other venues.

The Vatican point man behind the workshops is Argentinian Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, who came under fire in May for offering a Vatican platform for known proponents of abortion and population control like Jeffrey Sachs and UN General Secretary Ban Ki - moon, whom Sánchez invited to speak at the Vatican in an earlier conference on climate change.

A number of observers also criticized Sanchez last May for offering a Vatican platform to known proponents of abortion and population control like Jeffrey Sachs and UN General Secretary Ban Ki - moon, whom Sanchez had invited to speak at the Vatican in an earlier conference on climate change.

Gov. Jerry Brown has been in the news for his doom - and - gloom comments at a Vatican climate - change symposium.

California Governor Jerry Brown downplayed President Trump's influence on the climate change debate in the U.S. at a Vatican symposium Saturday, saying that his impact is «very small.»

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

I count myself among these ranks, and that was one reason I spent four days at the Vatican in May, 2014, lured by the title of a meeting organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences: «Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Nature, Our Responsibility.»

One other thing that comes to mind is the time I spent at the Vatican in 2014 at the meeting that preceded the encyclical and then writing about the pope's involvement in the climate question.

There's much more to explore at the Vatican website holding all of the lectures and papers contributed for that meeting.

The declaration being released at the Vatican has sections on the basics of climate change science, global economic trends and the Sustainable Development Goals that are being finalized this year in United Nations discussions.

An event today at the Vatican — organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Religions for Peace — is setting the tone for what's to come.

I've enthusiastically credited Pope Francis and his team at the Vatican for making climate change, and sustainable human development more broadly, a priority.

When family planning came up at the Vatican conference on sustainable development that I attended last week, it was not just in the context of population growth.

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives for his weekly general audience on May 30 at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Pope Francis holds a crucifix as he celebrates the Good Friday Passion of Christ Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, on Friday.

At the Vatican Museum, an armless plaster figure made by Marino Marini in the immediate aftermath of World War II is rife with ambiguity — did the artist mean it to be a circus performer, as the title claims, or a disguised, desacralized Christ for a godless world?

Pope Francis waves to the crowd in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Wednesday.

Pope Francis as he visits the papal residence at the Vatican on Thursday.

Thea Westrich and Ethan Wagner play directly on the confusion, by pairing art with designer objects — like a fluorescent cross in front of tourists at the Vatican, as photographed by Thomas Struth.

Juan Carlos Cruz, a survivor of sexual abuse by a Chilean predator priest, met with Pope Francis recently at the Vatican.

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood — Copernicus Conspiracy (free) The Master of the Sacred Palace at the Vatican has decided that the activities of scientists in Rome are too dangerous and that they must be stopped to keep the people in the grip of the Church.

There are religious festivals and processions during the week before Easter both in the city and at the Vatican.

Last November, I presented a paper with much of this information at the Vatican for the 400th anniversary of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences; half of the conference was devoted to analyzing how the mind and brain work in education.

There's a very funny montage when Lemur King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen) go on a date with a giant circus bear at the Vatican

Inspired by true events, «The Rite» follows skeptical seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue), who reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican.

Juan Carlos Cruz, a survivor of sexual abuse by a Chilean predator priest, met with Pope Francis recently at the Vatican.

Then... at the Vatican, Father Jude (Rob Lowe), in charge of debunking miracles, has just hired a new assistant, Sister Celine Leonti (Gaia Scodellaro).

Adding: «I love that she's telling everyone how wrong it is to worry about retouching and body image, and meanwhile, she has been touched up more than a choir boy at the Vatican.

As it recounts Jan's wild business ideas, such as when Jan and his clarinetist bribe someone at the Vatican so that Jan's European tour group can met the pope, the broad comedy becomes a weaker substitute for the more lively curiosities behind this bizarre story.

Mahony was at the Vatican where he was one of the 115 cardinals who gathered to select the new pope.

In one early scene, the camera captures Francis addressing a circle of cardinals at the Vatican.

Wim Wenders, whose best work in my view is the mystical «Wings of Desire,» spends much of his time listening to Pope Francis one - on - one, where the Pontiff elucidates his philosophy without the buzz of the tens of thousands of people he gathers whenever he visits a foreign country, blesses the crowd at the Vatican, or entrances the multitude in his own Buenos Aires.