Secretary of State of the Holy See Cardinal Pietro Parolin during his official visit to Kiev, 2017. / Shutterstock.
Vatican City, May 19, 2021 / 05:00 am (CNA).
The Vatican Secretary of State said Tuesday that the Holy See is committed to doing .
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Putting the human person at the centre of all healthcare systems 14 May 2021
In a video message to participants in the fifth international conference, “Exploring the Mind, Body & Soul How Innovation and Novel Delivery Systems Improve Human Health”, Pope Francis underscored the importance of putting the human person at the centre of every healthcare system. Organized by the Pontifical Council for Culture, the Cura Foundation and the Vatican Science and Faith Foundation, the conference was held online on 6-8 May. The following is the English text of the Holy Father’s words.
Vatican conference examines ways to improve global health
Speakers listed lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic and previous recent global health crises
Updated: May 11, 2021 06:01 AM GMT
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Indian health workers attend to a Covid-19 patient at Teerthanker Mahaveer University hospital in Moradabad. (Photo: AFP)
Although sponsored by a church derided by some that it thinks in terms of centuries, the pace of ideas introduced during just 90 minutes of the Vatican s May 6-8 international health care conference, Exploring the Mind, Body & Soul How Innovation and Novel Delivery Systems Improve Human Health, was breathtaking by any standard.
Speakers listed lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic and past recent global health crises and offered suggestions on how to lower the cost of lifesaving medications.
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Vatican City, May 8, 2021 / 10:30 am (CNA).
Pope Francis and Jane Goodall both offered perspectives on “what it means to be human” on the final day of an online Vatican health conference on Saturday.
In a video message to the virtual conference on May 8, the pope said that Saint Augustine’s words in “The Confessions” are timeless: “Man is himself a great deep.”
“The Scriptures, and philosophical and theological reflection in particular, have employed the concept of ‘soul’ to define our uniqueness as human beings and the specificity of the person, which is irreducible to any other living being and includes our openness to a supernatural dimension and thus to God,” the pope said.