700,000 expected at Communion and Liberation’s Rimini Meeting

August 25, 2009

Jeb Bush, Tony Blair, Mary Ann Glendon, Robert George, the president of the European Union, and dozens of figures in European ecclesiastical, political, and intellectual life are speaking this week at the 30th Rimini Meeting, which is associated with the Communion and Liberation movement. “Knowledge is always an Event” is the meeting’s theme.

In a message to meeting participants, Pope Benedict wrote, “It can be asked if there is knowledge more necessary for man that that of the knowledge of his Creator; if there is a knowledge described more adequately by the word ‘encounter’ than that of the fundamental relationship that exists precisely between the spirit of man and the Spirit of God.”

 

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Further information:

• Annual Rimini Meeting Opens (Vatican Radio)
• Rimini Meeting Sees Record Numbers (Zenit)
• Messaggio Del Santo Padre Al 30° Meeting Per L’Amicizia Fra I Popoli (Rimini, 23-29 Agosto 2009)
• Pontiff Sends Message to Rimini Meeting (Zenit)
• Rimini Meeting