“The Family: the first enterprise,” the first of the “Dialogues for the family” organized by the Pontifical Council in collaboration with the Association of Italian Catholic Jurists, will start at 15:30 on Tuesday, April 17th, at our Dicastery (Sala Pio XI, Piazza di San Callisto 16).

 

«The family is the heart of society, its primary resource even in economic terms, the first source of social capital and labor, and the central engine of the civil factory, a good example of practical economic and financial policy. So, it must come back into the center of reflections and interventions», Mgr. Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, who will initiate the work, says.

 

Moderator: Francesco D’Agostino, president of the Association of Italian Catholic Jurists. Speakers: Giovanni Giacobbe, lawyer, former president of the Forum delle associazioni familiari; Francesco Belletti, president of the Forum delle associazioni familiari and member of the organizing committee of the Social Weeks of Italian Catholics; Giuseppe Guzzetti, president of Associazione Fondazioni e Casse di risparmio italiane (Acri); Sister Alessandra Smerilli, economist, professor at Pontifical Academies; Johnny Dotti, educator, president of Welfare Italy; Carlo Cardia, lawyer, director of the European Documentation Center on religious institutions.