On Wednesday 22 September at 4 p.m. in the Sala Marconi of the Palazzo Pio, Piazza Pia, 3, in Rome, there will be a presentation of the book Francesco pastore e teologo (Francis, pastor and theologian) edited by Daniel Palau Valero and published by Libreria Editrice Vaticana. The speakers will be: Andrea Tornielli, editorial director of the Dicastery for Communication; His Eminence Cardinal Juan José Omella y Omella, archbishop of Barcelona; Msgr. Aurelio García, under-secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments; Fr. Armand Puig i Tàrrech, rector of the Sant Pacià University Athenaeum, Barcelona; and Professor Daniel Palau Valero, editor of the volume and director of the "arquebisbe Josep Pont i Gol" Chair in Pastoral Theology.

Admission to the Marconi Hall is reserved for a total of 30 people. Green passes are required. Please obtain accreditation by sending confirmation to the following e-mail address: ufficiostampa.lev@spc.va.

The event will be streamed via the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOd4q3qSPQY

Francesco pastore e teologo (pgs. 302; € 30,00) is a book published by Libreria Editrice Vaticana and edited by Daniel Palau Valero. It collects the contributions of specialists who took part in the conference held in Barcelona in November 2019, at the Sant Pacià University Athenaeum. It represents a good opportunity to approach the missionary proposal of Pope Francis and to better understand how the Pontiff is received in different continents and different cultural areas. At the heart of the book is the need to give answers to the most urgent questions about Christianity today and, above all, to make a correlation between pastoral and theology, in the conviction that talking about pastorality of theology, in the sense of a missionary proposal, needs complementarity between the two dimensions. Life and faith, reflection and discernment, pastoral care and theology have reached a stimulating and necessary point of convergence, which gives strength and credibility to the mission of a people moved by the Spirit. It contains contributions by: Luis F. Ladaria; Matteo Maria Zuppi, Margarita Bofarull i Buñuel, Armand Puig i Tàrrech, Walter Kasper, Joan Planellas i Barnosell, Maurizio Gronchi, Carlos María Galli, Andrea Tornielli, Prem Xalxo, Felix A. Machado, Catherine Cornille, Adolfo González Montes, Carlos Osoro Sierra.