Pope Francis presents this year’s Pope Paul VI Award to Italian President Sergio Mattarella. The news agency “Kathpress” reported on Wednesday.
The award will be given to the 81-year-old on May 29 – the commemoration of Pope Paul VI, whom Pope Francis canonized in 2018. The award aims to underline the relevance of political action and service to the common good in constitutional positions, he explained. the head of the Paul VI Institute, Angelo Maffeis.
The Pope Prize was first awarded in 1984 to, among others, Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar and French philosopher Paul Ricoeur.
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Pope Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Montini, was Pope between 1963 and 1978 and continued the Second Vatican Council. Paul VI received wide attention. also through his peace and social encyclicals; He was also known for writing “Humanae Vitae” (1968), in which he banned artificial contraception for Catholics.
(news cap/vaticano – fg)