Cardinal to address public lecture

Cardinal Paul Poupard, who holds the presidency of the Pontifical Council for Culture at the Vatican, is to take part in a public lecture organised by Discern, the Institute for Research of the Signs of the Times, on Monday.

The lecture, at the Radisson SAS Baypoint Resort in St George's Bay, will deal with the way one can find God's ways in contemporary culture and history.

A spokesman for Discern said no speaker could be more appropriate to deal with such a topic than Cardinal Poupard.

Cardinal Poupard is a scholar of international repute and promoter of dialogue with contemporary culture.

Born in Anjou, France, in 1930, he has earned two doctorates from the Sorbonne: one in theology on the links between faith and reason and another in history on church-state relations.

Cardinal Poupard has made numerous scholarly contributions to collections and articles in periodicals and encyclopedias.

He was principal editor of the Dictionnaire des Religions. His works have been translated into Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and other languages.

The meeting is open to the public.