Pope to award Italian president the Paul VI Prize
April 20, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Pope Francis will confer the Paul VI International Award on Sergio Mattarella, Italy’s president since 2015, the Vatican announced on April 19.
The award honors those whose “study and works have contributed to the growth of the religious sense of the world,” and particularly Christian humanism, said Don Angelo Maffeis, president of the Paul VI Institute. Mattarella’s reception of the award will “emphasize how political action and service to the common good in the exercise of various institutional functions may be one of the most significant areas in which this can take place.”
Pope Francis and the 81-year-old president have had a markedly cordial relationship.
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