Cardinal Camillo Ruini, president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference and Vicar of the Pope for the diocese of Rome, will give the opening address at the third European Symposium of university teachers, due to be held in Rome from 30 June to 3 July. The theme of the meeting is: “ Ora et labora. Work in Europe”. The inaugural ceremony reports the office for university ministry of the diocese of Rome will be held in the Sala della Protomoteca on the Campidoglio on the afternoon of 30 June, with welcoming speeches by the Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni, by Prof. Cesare Mirabelli, president emeritus of the Italian Constitutional Court, by the Ministers of Education and Labour Letizia Moratti and Umberto Maroni, and by the president of the Lazio Region, Pietro Marrazzo. Work and the human person; work and the new challenges of the economic situation; work, society and the institutions will form the three main threads of the introductory session, immediately after Cardinal Ruini’s keynote address. On the morning of 1st July, the participants will meet at the Pontifical Lateran University to hear some doctrinal reflections by Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, president of the Pontifical Council of Justice and Peace. A special audience with Benedict XVI has been requested. After an introduction by the rector of LUMSA, Giuseppe Dalla Torre, the symposium will proceed in nine sessions, thanks to a survey in which 98 European universities in 30 countries have been involved. “Church and university: a new dialogue for a new culture of work in Europe” will be the theme of the final round table of the Symposium, which will conclude with a document to be submitted to the European scientific community. A film review “Cinema and Work”, presented by well-known directors and critics, is also planned.
