* 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 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.

The Pontifical Council for Dialogue with Non-Believers was merged with the Pontifical Council for Culture in 1993.

: 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:

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## The Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants

## The Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers

He was also given a papal assignment to serve as Special Delegate to the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples.

" He later became a member of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants.

He became a member of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants in 1990, the Congregation for the Clergy in 1991, the Pontifical Council for Culture in 1993, and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in 1999.

Stephen Fumio Hamao ( 濱尾 文郎 Hamao Fumio ) ( 9 March 1930 – 8 November 2007 ) was a Japanese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was the President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants until it merged with other elements of the Roman Curia.

He was named Bishop of Yokohama on 30 October 1979, a post he held for almost 20 years until he resigned on 15 June 1998 to become President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants.

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Category: Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers

Category: Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants

Category: Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers

The Pontifical Council for Social Communications ( Pontificium Consilium de Communicationibus Socialibus ) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia.

He taught short courses in the sociology of religious movements at the Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum and in 2005 – 2006 at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, both Vatican-accredited institutions.

By decree of Pope Paul VI dated July 22, 1971, the College was renamed Pontificium Collegium Chroaticum Sancti Hieronymi ( Pontifical Croatian College of St. Jerome ), and this was accepted by Italy by decree of the President on October 11, 1982.

The College of Saint Thomas was elevated to the status of Pontificium by Pope Pius X on May 2, 1906, thus making its degrees equivalent to those of the world's other Pontifical universities.

The inscription is a paraphrase from the papal encyclical Studiorum ducem by Pope Pius XI which singles out the Angelicum as the preeminent institution for the teaching of Aquinas: " ante omnia Pontificium Collegium Angelicum, ubi Thomam tamquam domi suae habitare dixeris ," ( before all others the Pontifical Angelicum College, where Thomas can be said to dwell ).