Cardinal Renato Martino at Fairfield University on October 30

Cardinal Renato Martino at Fairfield University on October 30

Cardinal Renato Martino will be at Fairfield University on Monday, Oct. 30 at 10 a.m., to meet with students and others in the DiMenna-Nyselius Library Multimedia Room.

Cardinal Martino is the President of the Vatican's Pontifical Council on Justice and Peace and the Pontifical Council on Migrants and Refugees. He is Pope Benedict's main advisor on International issues of peace, human rights, social justices, immigration, refugees and asylum seekers.

A former Vatican Ambassador to Thailand and to the United Nations in New York, Cardinal Martino was an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq during the last years of Pope John Paul II.

Cardinal Martino was responsible for creating a new compendium of Catholic Social Teaching which pulls together in one volume all the basic principles of the church's reflection on social issues.

Cardinal Martino's visit is sponsored by the Center for Faith and Public Life.

Posted On: 10-26-2006 10:10 AM

Volume: 39 Number: 67