XXVII International Conference of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers
The Hospital, Setting for Evangelisation: a Human and Spiritual Mission
Vatican City, 15-17 November 2012
Thursday 15 November
HISTORY AND MISSION
Morning Session
7.30 Celebration of the Holy Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica
His Eminence Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone
9.00 Greetings and Opening Address
H.E. Msgr. Zygmunt Zimowski
President of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers (the Holy See)
9.30 Greetings of the Minister of Health of Italy
Hon. Renato Balduzzi
Minister of Health of Italy (Italy)
9.40 Message of His Eminence Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Mân
Archbishop of THÀN-PHÔ HÔ CHÍ MINH (Vietnam)
Member of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers
9.50 Prolusion: The Hospital – Setting for the New Evangelisation
H.E. Msgr. Salvatore Fisichella
President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation (the Holy See)
10.20 The Role of the Hospital in International Health-Care Policies
Dr. Margaret Chan
Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) (Switzerland)
10.50 Break
Chairman: Dr. Patrizio Polisca
Archiater of Pope Benedict XVI and Director of Health Care and Hygiene of the Governorate of the State of the Vatican City (the Holy See)
11.10 Recommendations and Perspectives in Pastoral Care in Health in the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation ‘Africae munus’ of Pope Benedict XVI
His Eminence Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, O.F.M.
Archbishop of Durban (South Africa)
Member of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers
11.30 The Hospital: Temple of Humanity and Crossroad of Peoples
His Eminence Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk
Archbishop of Utrecht (Holland)
11.50 The Holy Spirit in Saxia Hospital: History and Mission
Prof. Gianni Iacovelli
President of the Academy of the History of Medical Art of Rome (Italy)
12.10 The Historical Genesis of the Hospital
Fra. Pascual Piles Ferrando, O.H.
Former Prior General of the Hospital Order of St. John of God (Spain)
12.30 The Centuries-Old Religious Role of the Sisters of Charity of St. Joan Antida Thouret in Roman Hospitals
The Most Reverend Sr. Nunzia De Gori, SDC
Superior General of the Sisters of Charity of St. Joan Antida Thouret (Italy)
12.50 The Human and Spiritual Accompanying of Medical Students
Prof. Benoît Lengelé
Professor of Human Anatomy at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium)
13.10 End of the Session
Afternoon Session
Chairman: H.E. Msgr. Valter Župan
Bishop of Krk and Bishop Responsible for Pastoral Care in Health in Croatia (Croatia)
15.00 The Military Hospital and the Evangelisation of Peace
Brigade General Vito Ferrara
Vice-director of the Department of Health of the “Arma dei Carabinieri” (Italy)
15.20 Hospital Management Between Rationalisation and the Defence of the Right to Health
Dr. Anthony R. Tersigni, Fache
President and Executive Director of the ‘Ascension Health Alliance’ Office (USA)
15.40 Biomedical Research in the Hospital
Dr. Ornella Parolini
Director of the E. Menni Research Centre,
the Hospital Polyclinic Institute Foundation of Brescia (Italy)
16.00 The Vocation of the University Hospital
Dr. Sandro Caffi
Director General of the Integrated University Hospital Company of Verona (Italy)
16.20 Break
Chairperson: Prof. Kuo-Inn Tsou
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the Catholic University of Fu Jen di Taipei (Taiwan)
Consultor of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers
16.40 Telemedicine: a Medical Reality that Calls on Ethics
Dr. Giovanni Putoto
Planning Responsible of Doctors with Africa Cuamm (Italia)
17.00 Round Table: Hospital Workers: Evangelisers of Life
The Administrator
Dr. Orochi Samuel Orach
Director of the National Office for Pastoral Care in Health of Kampala (Uganda)
Consultor of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers
The Medical Doctor
Dr. Daniela Terribile
Medical Director of Breast Surgery at the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic (Italy)
The Nurse
Sister of the St. Elizabeth Congregation (the Republic of Slovakia)
The Volunteer
Ms. Anna Janowicz
(Poland)
The Chaplain
Fr. Konrad Demmel
(Germany)
18.00 Discussion
19.00 End of Session
Friday 16 November
ETHICS AND HUMANISATION
Morning Session
Chairman: H.E. Msgr. José Luis Redrado, O.H.
Former Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers (Spain)
9.00 Health Care Between Being and Acting: Balances of Charity
Fra. Mario Bonora, P.S.D.P.
President of the Don Calabria Sacred Heart Hospital of Negrar -Verona,
and National President of ARIS (Italy)
Member of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers
9.20 Humanisation and Fairness in the Care Provided by Health-Care
Institutions
Prof. Enrico Garaci
President of the Higher Institute of Health Care of the Higher Council of Health Care (Italy)
9.40 The Hospital: Bioethical and Biopolitical Problems
Prof. Francesco D’Agostino
Full Professor of the Philosophy of Law and the General Theory of Law at the University of Tor Vergata (Italy)
10.00 The Hospital as the Custodians of Life
Prof. Riccardo Marana
Director of the Paul VI International Scientific Institute for Research into
Human Fertility and Infertility for Responsible Procreation – I.S.I. (Italy)
at the A.Gemelli Polyclinic (Italy)
10.20 Ethical Committees in Hospitals Today
Prof. John M. Haas
President of the National Catholic Bioethics Center of Philadelphia (USA) Consultor of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers
10.40 Break
11.00 Round Table: Catholic Hospitals in a Changing World
Chairman: H.E. Msgr. Nicolas Brouwet
Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes (France)
AFRICA
H.E. Msgr. Joachim Ntahondereye
Bishop of Muyinga, Bishop Responsible for Pastoral Care in Health in Burundi (Burundi)
Consultor of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers
ASIA
H.R.E. Msgr. Bernard Blasius Moras
Archbishop of Bangalore (India)
Member of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers
NORTH AMERICA
H.E. Msgr. Robert J. McManus
Bishop of Worcester and Bishop Responsible for Pastoral Care in Health in the United States of America (USA)
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AMERICA
H.E. Msgr. Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández
Bishop of Iquique and Bishop Responsible for Pastoral Care in Health in Chile (Chile)
EUROPE
H.E. Msgr. Edoardo Menichelli
Metropolitan Archbishop of Ancona-Osimo (Italy)
OCEANIA
H.E. Msgr. Donald Sproxton
Auxiliary Bishop of Perth and
Bishop In Charge of Pastoral Care in Health in Australia (Australia)
12.30 Discussion
13.00 End of the Session
THE SPIRITUALITY AND DEACONATE OF CHARITY
Afternoon Session
Chairman: H.E. Msgr. Emery Kabongo
Emeritus Archbishop-Bishop of Luebo and Canon of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome (Holy See)
15.00 The Hospital Chapel: a Beating Heart of the Mission of the Church for the Sick
Fra René Stockman, F.C.
Superior General of the Brothers of Charity (Belgium)
15.20 The Vocation of Consecrated Life and Charismatic Witness in Places of Care
Mother Laura Biondo, F.S.C.
Superior General of the Daughters of St. Camillus of Lellis (Italy)
15.40 Home Care for the Sick
Dr. Konstanty Radziwill
President of Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME)
(Poland)
16.00 The Hospital Chaplaincy
Fra. Benigno Ramos Rodríguez, O.H.
Superior of the Community of the Tiberine Island of the Brothers of St. John of God (Italy)
16.20 The Human and Spiritual Training of Hospital Volunteers
Dr. Salvatore Pagliuca
National President of UNITALSI (Italy)
Consultor of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers
16.40 Spiritual needs of patients with chronic diseases in a secularized society
Prof. Arndt Büssing
Professorship on Quality of Life, Spirituality and Coping; Center for Integrative Medicine; Faculty of Health, Witten/Herdecke University (Germany)
17.00 Break
Chairman: Fr. Salvatore Pignatelli, M.I.
Director of the Medical Centre of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
17.20 The Mission for the Suffering of the ‘Merciful’
Dr. Manuel de Lemos
President of the Union of the ‘Merciful’ of Portugal (Portugal)
17.40 The Humanitarian and Missionary Role of the Order of Malta
Fra. Matthew Festing
Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospital Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and Malta (Italy)
18.00 Some Projects of the ‘Good Samaritan’ Foundation’ for Hospitals in Cooperation with Other Bodies
– The delivery of 12 ultra sound machines and the formation of health-care personnel in the health districts of Butembo and Beni in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (General Electric)
– The strengthening of the HIV/AIDS programme of the Bishops’ Conference of Tanzania in education, training prevention and cure
(Gilead)
– The training of medical doctors from missions in laparoscopic surgery and the provision of ad hoc machines for laparoscopy
(Dr. Karl Storz)
18.45 Conclusions and Recommendations
Msgr. Andrea Pio Cristiani
Founder of the ‘Shalom’ Movement (Italy)
Consultor of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers
Fr. Jacques Simporé, M.I.
Rector of the St. Thomas University of Burkina Faso (Burkina Faso)
Consultor of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers
19.00 End of the Proceedings
Saturday 17 November
10.00 Meeting of reflection and prayer by Health Care Workers on the occasion of the Year of the Faith, Paul VI Hall.
- Introductory rite (H.E. Msgr. Zygmunt Zimowski)
- Reading of the Word of God
- Brief Comment by His Eminence Cardinal Angelo Comastri
- Pause for Reflection
- Testimonies
- Final Prayer
Holy Father’s address is expected.
Information
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