Pontifical Council for Culture: 30 years of mission

(Vatican Radio ) As the Courtyard of the Gentile's project which promotes dialogue between believers and non-believers has just taken place in Sweden Veronica Scarisbrick thought she would shine the spotlight on the Pontifical Council for Culture that spearheads these initiatives.
As she discovers it's a Council that goes back to 1982 when Blessed John Paul II decided to found it. Merging it a year later with an earlier Council founded by Paul VI in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, one dedicated in a special way to dialogue with non-believers.
Currently led by its President Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, this Council is at the service of the Universal Church, as well as of particular Churches.
Veronica Scarisbrick asks Monsignor Peter Fleetwood, a former official there to better explain the nature of its mission: “…it has a double mission, which is also the mission of the Church. That’s to inculturate the gospel and to evangelise cultures. Always a plural thing as there are many cultures and the Church has to live in many cultures…”

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