Vatican City, Feb 6, 2005 / 22:00 pm
On Saturday, Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, presented the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church in Bologna, Italy.
The document which was published by the council last October, was presented at the School of Formation to Social Commitments of the Veritatis Splendor Institute.
A communique from the council summarizing the cardinal's talk noted that he termed the Compendium "a manifesto of a new humanism in the sense that, in it one can find inspiration and programs, ideal and historical, for a new society."
For Cardinal Martino, says the communique, "an integral and solidary humanism is achieved only through projects that are planned and actuated by force of social culture and common policies."