Kissinger to participate in Vatican meeting on charity, justice

Published: 2007-04-26

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was to participate in a Vatican meeting on charity and justice and was to stay at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the Vatican residence where the cardinals stayed during the conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI. Mary Ann Glendon, a U.S. law professor and president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, invited Kissinger to speak at the academy's April 27-May 1 plenary session. The academy, which advises the Vatican on social issues, was to focus on "Charity and Justice in the Relations Among Peoples and Nations." The meeting was to be the last in a series -- held over the past 13 years -- focusing on economic, social and legal issues tied to the theme of globalization. Glendon told reporters that Kissinger was invited after he was included on an academy members' list of "experts, some with scholarly expertise, some with practical experience with the problems" the academy faces.

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