"Courtyard of the Gentiles" opens in Paris, France
Paris, France is the scene this Thursday and Friday of the inauguration of a major
Vatican initiative headed by the Pontifical Council for Culture, aimed at recovering
a broad cultural dialogue, the purpose of which is to preserve the great questions
about human existence - especially spiritual questions - in contemporary Western public
intellectual life. The “Courtyard of the Gentiles” as the initiative is known in English,
takes its name from the space in the area of the great Temple at Jerusalem, in which
Jews and gentiles met and engaged each other – an image that Pope Benedict XVI invoked
in his 2009 address to the Roman Curia. Then, the Holy Father called for, “[D]ialogue
with those to whom religion is something foreign, to whom God is unknown and who nevertheless
do not want to be left merely Godless, but rather to draw near to Him, albeit as the
Unknown.” Pope Benedict is scheduled to address participants by live video link tomorrow,
Friday, March 25th.Listen to Emer McCarthy's report:
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