The President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Msgr. Vincenzo Paglia, spoke on Monday, 18 March, at meeting organized by the Permanent Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations with other international organizations based in Geneva, on the theme: “Promoting Human Rights and Freedoms through legal and social Protection of the Family.”
The work was introduced by H.E. Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See at the Observatory. The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Swaziland (Southern Africa), Thembayena Annastasia Dlamini, moderated the meeting. The Speakers, alongside Msgr. Paglia, were Dr. Xavier Lacroix, professor at the Catholic University of Lyon and member of the National Advisory Committee on Ethics in France, and Michael Schumacher, a researcher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Msgr. Vincenzo Paglia lectures on the theme: “The Family as a Resource for Society,” on the Twentieth Anniversary of the International Year of the Family and the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Holy See’s Charter of Rights of the Family.
Summary of the Lecture
