VATICAN CITY, OCTOBER 19, 2017 (Zenit.org).- On Thursday morning, October 19, 2017, Pope Francis received in private audience in the Vatican, his Argentine friend Louis Liberman, reported the Holy See Press Office.
Among other titles, Louis Liberman is an anthropologist, Founder and Director General of the Chair of “Dialogue and Culture of Encounter” — one sees immediately essential topics for Pope Francis –, which combines subjects such as education, work and ecology. He is also Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires and manager of educational programs.
It’s not rare for the Pope to telephone him, for instance, to wish him a Happy Birthday, as he did last April: he himself confided it to a number of the media. The Pontiff confirmed to him that no trip to his homeland is on the agenda for 2018.
Louis Liberman was already at the Vatican last February, on the occasion of a Seminar on the Right to Water, organized by the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences, under the direction of another Argentine, Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo.
Last May, Louis Liberman organized a meeting in Colombia on the Right to Water in Amazonia: this topic will certainly be addressed on the occasion of the 2019 Synod on the Pan-Amazonia Region. Representatives of the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network presided over by Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, Archbishop Emeritus of Sao Paulo, took part in the meeting.
Lieberman is engaged in the project of a “University of Water,” with the Argentine Foundation of Health Workers for Formation and Development.
He regards the Pontiff as a great “shaker of consciences.”
English translation by Virginia M. Forrester
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