* Roger Etchegaray, Cardinal Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina, Vice-Dean, President emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace

The Disciples of Christ maintains ecumenical relations with the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

Among the most active of the major Curial institutions are the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which oversees the Catholic Church's doctrine ; the Congregation for Bishops, which coordinates the appointment of bishops worldwide ; the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, which oversees all missionary activities ; and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, which deals with international peace and social issues.

He was made director of the journal Gregorianum and appointed consultor at the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

* Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

* Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Included in the Congregation's membership are all Eastern Catholic patriarchs and major archbishops, as well as the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

The Pontifical Council for the Laity has the responsibility of assisting the Pope in his dealings with the laity in lay ecclesial movements or individually, and their contributions to the Church.

The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity is a pontifical council of the Roman Curia dedicated chiefly to the promotion of dialogue and unity with other Christian churches and ecclesial communities, but also, through a closely linked specific commission, to advancing religious relations with Jews.

The Pontifical Council for the Family is part of the Curia of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace is a part of the Roman Curia dedicated to " action-oriented studies " for the international promotion of justice, peace, and human rights from the perspective of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Pontifical Council Cor Unum for Human and Christian Development is part of the Curia of the Catholic Church.

The Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants ( Pontificium Consilium de Spirituali Migrantium atque Itinerantium Cura ) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia.

The Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers was set up by the Motu Proprio Dolentium Hominum of 11 February 1985, by Pope John Paul II who reformed the Pontifical Commission for the Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers into its present form in 1988.

152 — The Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers shows the solicitude of the Church for the sick by helping those who serve the sick and suffering, so that their apostolate of mercy may ever more effectively respond to people ’ s needs.

The Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts is part of the Roman Curia.

The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue is the central office of the Catholic Church for the promotion of interreligious dialogue in accordance with the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, in particular the declaration Nostra Aetate.

The Pontifical Council for Culture () is a Pontifical Council of the Roman Catholic Church with a mission to oversee the relationship of the Catholic Church with different cultures.

: Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies, 1984, and Ibn Sina and Mysticism, Remarks and Admonitions: Part 4, London: Kegan Paul International, 1996.

), and Pontifical ( for the services appropriate to a bishop — Confirmation, Ordination ).

In contrast, the Holy See has not questioned the validity of the consecrations that the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre performed in 1988 for the service of the relatively numerous followers of the Traditionalist Catholic Society of St. Pius X that he had founded, and of the bishops who, under pressure from the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, " have been ordained without the Pontifical mandate and who have not asked for, or have not yet obtained, the necessary legitimation ", and who consequently, Pope Benedict XVI has declared, " are to be considered illegitimate, but validly ordained ".

The Roman Catholic tradition has a well-established philosophy for the study of the Immaculate Conception and the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the field of Mariology, with Pontifical schools such as the Marianum specifically devoted to this.

The use of the term to refer to bishops in general is reflected in the terms " Roman Pontifical " ( a book containing rites reserved for bishops, such as confirmation and ordination ) and " pontificals " ( the insignia of bishops ).

The Roman Curia can be loosely compared to cabinets in governments of countries with a Western form of governance, but only the Second Section of the Secretariat of State, known also as the Section for Relations with States, the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and the Congregation for Catholic Education, can be directly compared with specific ministries of a civil government.

The Congregation for Catholic Education ( for Seminaries and Educational Institutions )( Congregatio de Institutione Catholica ( de Seminariis atque Studiorum Institutis )) is the Pontifical congregation of the Roman Curia responsible for:

For example the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue is also the prefect of the Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims.

On Monday, July 23, 2012, Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata, who until then had been the Secretary, or second-highest official, of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and Titular Archbishop of Duklja, was named by Pope Benedict XVI to succeed Cardinal Santos Abril y Castelló as the new Vice-Camerlengo ( Chamberlain ) of the Holy Roman Church, to serve under Cardinal Bertone.

* Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

## The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

Werner Arber is member of the World Knowledge Dialogue Scientific Board and of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences since 1981.

The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue ( PCID ) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia, erected by Pope Paul VI on 19 May 1964 as the Secretariat for Non-Christians, and renamed by Pope John Paul II on 28 June 1988.

The Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims is affiliated with the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and the President of the Council is President also of that Pontifical Commission.

Father Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot is Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and Vice-President of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims.

The Undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue is Father Indunil Janakaratne Kodithuwakku Kankanamalage ( according to the Tuesday, June 12, 2012 online news release giving biographical information and announcing his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI by VIS, Vatican Information Service, Father Kankanamalage was a member of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Badulla in Badulla, Sri Lanka, of the Ecclesial Province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Colombo, and he served as a Professor at the Faculty of Missiology at the Pontifical Urban University at the Vatican in Rome ).

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Paul Joseph Jean Poupard ( born 30 August 1930 in Bouzillé, Maine-et-Loire ) is a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who has been President of the Pontifical Council for Culture and also of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

After the sede vacante period that followed the death of Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI immediately reappointed him to the same position and on 11 March 2006 also named him President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

In September 2007 he was replaced as President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue by Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran and as President of the Pontifical Council for Culture by Gianfranco Ravasi, at that time Prefect of the Ambrosian Library.

Category: Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

The Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei is a commission of the Roman Catholic Church established by Pope John Paul II's motu proprio Ecclesia Dei of 2 July 1988 for the care of those former followers of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre who broke with him as a result of his consecration of four priests of his Society of St. Pius X as bishops on 30 June 1988, an act the Holy See deemed illicit and schismatic.

The Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology was created by Pius IX ( 6 January 1852 ) " to take care of the ancient sacred cemeteries, look after their preventive preservation, further explorations, research and study, and also safeguard the oldest mementos of the early Christian centuries, the outstanding monuments and venerable Basilicas in Rome, in the Roman suburbs and soil, and in the other Dioceses in agreement with the respective Ordinaries ".

The Pontifical Biblical Commission is a consultative body of scholars placed under the authority of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, with duties:

Set up by Pope John Paul II by a motu proprio of 15 January 1993, it is presided over by the Cardinal Secretary of State and includes also the Secretary and the Undersecretary for Relations with States, and the Secretaries of the Congregations for the Eastern Churches, for the Clergy, and for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, and of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences was established by Pope John Paul II on 1 January 1994 ( AAS 86, 213 ), with the aim of promoting the study and progress of the social sciences, primarily economics, sociology, law and political science.

The Academy, which is autonomous, maintains a close relationship with the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

Served briefly with the Pontifical Zouaves.