Plenary Sessions
Plenary Sessions
Plenary Session on Disability and the Human Condition
Plenary Session | 9-10-11 April 2024
There is no exact number of people with disabilities worldwide. International organisations estimate that 16% of the world's population experience significant disabling conditions. ... Read all
The Family as a Relational Good
Plenary Session | 27-29 April 2022
All surveys conducted at national and international levels show that the family is at the top of the scale of people’s values under every latitude. People claim that the family is ... Read all
Nation, State, Nation-State
Plenary Session | 1-3 May 2019
The world is facing today a growing threat of nationalist revival. Exclusivist national ideology leads to mutual rejection and enduring conflicts. Yet humanity has learned from its ... Read all
Towards a Participatory Society: New Roads to Social and Cultural Integration
Plenary Session | 28 April - 2 May 2017
Since the beginning of his Pontificate, Pope Francis has asked our Academy to give more attention to the poor, the marginalized, the sick, the suffering, and to make a renewed ... Read all
Human Trafficking: Issues Beyond Criminalization
Plenary Session | 17-21 April 2015
There are two statements that Pope Francis has constantly repeated from the beginning of his Pontificate: that ‘Human Trafficking is Modern Slavery’ and that this practice is a ... Read all
The Global Quest for Tranquillitas Ordinis
Plenary Session | 27 April - 2 May 2012
Pacem in Terris reflected a profound sense of its own historical moment, both sacred and secular. In less than five weeks’ time (11 October – 16 November 1962), Pope John XXIII had ... Read all
Universal Rights in a World of Diversity
Plenary Session | 29 April - 3 May 2011
The 17th Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences is the first of two Plenaries to be dedicated to the analysis of developments affecting areas of Catholic ... Read all
Crisis in a Global Economy – Re-Planning the Journey
Plenary Session | 30 April - 4 May 2010
Mindful of its responsibility to provide the Holy See with elements that may be useful in the development of its social teaching, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences will ... Read all
Catholic Social Doctrine and Human Rights
Plenary Session | 1-5 May 2009
‘Where is your brother?’ God’s question to Cain (Gen 4:9) is posed to mankind in all epochs as a central question in the achievement of the Order of the Creation. It is proposed ... Read all
Pursuing the Common Good: How Solidarity and Subsidiarity Can Work Together
Plenary Session | 2-6 May 2008
In the social teaching of the Church, solidarity and subsidiarity are viewed as linked, mutually reinforcing and necessary to realising the common good. Ideally, this is the case. ... Read all