Pontifical Council for Culture Archives

Vatican women’s council hopes to be ‘electric shock’ for global Church
- Vatican
- June 24, 2017
The female advisory board of the Pontifical Council for Culture has big plans: By sending an “electric shock” within the Church, it hopes to spark thousands of similar councils around the globe in search of solutions that go beyond women priests.
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Why the Vatican thinks priests should learn about art, beauty
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- January 30, 2017
The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture has launched a project for the training of priests and other cultural workers in the Church in the aesthetics and history of art. It will also look at specific training for artists in the Church so that they may make art “that fit in places of worship and are in service to the liturgy.”
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Vatican summit hears complaints on women … in sports
- Associated Press, Vatican
- October 9, 2016
Female sports pioneer Val Ackerman told a Vatican conference last week that when she looks at the numbers of women in leadership roles in world sports organizations, she cringes, including just three women on the 14-member International Olympic Committee executive board.
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Vatican stem cell summit wants cutting-edge treatment to reach the poor

April 28, 2016

This week the Vatican is hosting its third conference on stem cell research, seeking to promote therapies based on adult stem cells, which the Catholic Church supports, rather than the use of embryos, and also to make sure cutting-edge medical technology is available to the poor and the young.