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The Pontifical Council for Culture traces its origins to the Second Vatican Council and its opening up to that great, dynamic, worried and multiform world of contemporary culture. In its Pastoral...
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The dialogue between believers and non-believers, atheists and secular humanists
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Sport and Culture
Immersing the Gospel in the dominant cultural phenomenon of sport
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Biennale Architettura
After the experiences of 2013 and 2015 at the Biennale Arte, the Holy See participates for the first time at the Venice Biennale Architettura with a pavilion spread through the picturesque wood on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore.
Promoted by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, coordinated by the...
Music and Church
Church and Composers
Words and Sounds
Lumsa University, Via di Porta Castello, 44, Rome
13-15 September 2018
Objectives
What role for the composer today in the musical life of the Church? A range of speakers - biblical scholars, liturgists, educationalists, theologians, musicians (including of course composers themselves) - will approach the figure of the composer in order to shed light on their...
The Courtyard of the Gentiles
The Courtyard of the Gentiles is a department of the Pontifical Council for Culture which intends to respond to the desire expressed by the Holy Father on the occasion of the Christmas Greetings to...
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