Congress programme
Congress programme
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 5, 2022
15.30h
Accreditation of delegates and collection of material.
16.30h
Opening of the 8th World Congress on the Pastoral Care of Tourism.
18.00h
Coffee Break
19.00h
Conference – Developing and strengthening the art of the first announcement in the fleeting world of tourism and pilgrimages: ways and content.
Mons. Rino Fisichiella
Pro-Prefect for the Dicastery for Promoting the New Evangelisation
21.00h
Welcome cocktail-dinner · Hotel Oca Puerta del Camino
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 6, 2022
10.00h
Presentation of the day’s subjects. Prayer.
10.20h
Conference – History of the Pastoral Care of Tourism. International organisms related to the Holy See and tourism.
Mons. Maurizio Bravi
Permanent observer of the Holy See for the WTO. Delegate for Spiritual Routes in Europe.
10.55h
Presentation – The 7th World Congress on the Pastoral Care of Tourism. Proposals, challenges, and objectives pending from Cancun-2012. Unspecified proposals.
Horacio Hernández de La Torre
Nacional Director of the Pastoral Care of Tourism for the Mexican Bishops’ Conference.
11.30h
Conference – Roots, memory, and transcendence of Beauty.
Daniel Balditarra Iturrate
Pastoral delegate of the Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Milan.
12.05h
Conference – The conservation and care of Cultural Heritage as a symbol and testimony of faith and interrelation with tourism.
Pablo Delclaux de Muller
Director of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference’s Cultural Heritage Commission.
12.35h
Coffee Break
13.00h
Presentation – The pastoral care of Beauty in Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia.
Mn. Josep María Turull
Rector of the Sagrada Familia Basilica. Episcopal delegate for the Pastoral Care of Tourism.
13.35h
Conference – Donum Verbi et Panis. Tourism of community and ecclesial cultural parks.
Gionatan De Marco
Director of the Pastoral Care of Free Time, Tourism, and Sports for the Italian Bishops’ Conference.
14.30h
Lunch
16.00h
Conference – If these remained silent, the stones would cry out. Living stones.
Ricardo Sanjurjo Otero
Delegate of University Pastoral Care in Santiago de Compostela.
16.40h
Conference – The Portuguese pastoral proposal: Heritage at the service of the new evangelisation, project in action.
Miguel Lópes Neto
Nacional Director of the Portuguese Bishops’ Conference’s Pastoral Care of Tourism.
Sandra Moreira
Member of the Pastoral Care of Tourism Team. Algarve Diocese
17.15h
Conference – The need for preparing a real theology of rest and free time.
Manuel Pozo Oller
Theologist. Almería Diocese.
17.45h
Coffee Break
18.10h
Conference – Peregrinos ad Loca Sancta
Mons. Francisco Prieto
Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Compostela.
18.45h
Conference – The pastoral history of the Mar del Plata Diocese and its pastoral actions towards holiday tourism: reception, service, and announcement.
Mons. Gabriel Mestre
Bishop of Mar del Plata. President of the Argentinean Bishops’ Conference’s Episcopal Commission for Catechesis, Entertainment, and Biblical Pastoral Care.
19.15h
Conference – The Pastoral Care of Tourism in Central America and the Caribbean.
Mons. José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta
Primate Archbishop of Panama.
20.00h
Eucharist
21.00h
Dinner – San Martín Pinario
22.30h
Guided night tour: Squares and Cathedral interior.
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 7, 2022
10.00h
Presentation of today’s subjects. Prayer.
10.20h
Presentation – General panorama and prospects for tourism in the post-Covid and post-war period.
Ramón de Isequilla Real de Azúa
Journalist specialising in tourism, Vice-President of OMT Affiliate Members.
MT
10.50h
Presentation – Religious tourism, a historical phenomenon that is enjoying a revival: growth, statistics.
Dr Juan Francisco Rivero Domínguez
Journalist specialising in tourism. President of Skal Madrid.
11.20h
Conference – Training project at the service of the Pastoral Care of Tourism of Stefan Wyszyński University. The cultural and religious value of pilgrimages in the enslaved world, as an element and core of evangelisation.
Prof. Bárbara Strzalkowka
Theologist and Bible scholar. Warsaw.
12.00h
Coffee Break
12.30h
Conference – Sense and value of pilgrimages in the faith and life of Eastern Church.
Card. Leonardo Sandri
Prefect of the Dicastery for Eastern Churches.
13.20h
Conference – The travelling man in a multicultural and multireligious society, in the light of Pope Francis’ teaching.
Card. Juan José Omella
Archbishop of Barcelona. President of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference.
14.30h
Lunch
16.15h
Conference – Jerusalem-Rome-Santiago. Historical links between Santiago de Compostela and Jerusalem.
Mons. Julián Barrio
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela.
Conference – Going on a pilgrimage to Earthly Jerusalem, a token of the final pilgrimage to Heavenly Jerusalem. Current situation of the Christian population in the Holy Land.
His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
17.30h
Conference – Integrated system of management and evangelisation for the New Evangelisation. Cultural Heritage, Tourism, Education, and Social Pastoral Care.
Mons. Juan C. Cárdenas Toro
Bishop of Pasto, Colombia.
18.05h
Coffee Break
18.30h
Conference – People smuggling: denial of tourism’s values: In favour of tourism free from exploitation and people smuggling.
Marcela Villares
National Director of the Argentinean Bishops’ Conference’s Pastoral Care of Tourism.
María Francisca Sánchez
Director of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference’s Department of People Smuggling.
19.15h
Simultaneous presentations:
– Room 1 – The Truth, and come with me to seek it. The Way of Santo Domingo de Guzman.
Fr. Xabier Gómez OP
Director of the Spanish Bishops’ Pastoral Care of Migrations.
– Room 2 – Following in the footsteps of the Holy Jesuits.
Balbina Sendra Alcina
Manager of Borja Palace, Gandía.
Ignacio Echarte SJ
Rector of the Sanctuary of St. Ignatius of Loyola in Loyola, Azpeitia.
– Room 3 – St. Teresa Routes; adventures of life.
Prof. Abelardo Arteaga Huertas
Lecturer, Valencia.
20.30h
Eucharist
21.30h
Dinner – Hotel Monumento San Francisco
SATURDAY. OCTOBER 8, 2022
10.00h
Presentation of today’s subjects. Prayer
10.20h
Simultaneous presentations:
– Room A – Religious tourism, social development based on community coordination.
Manoel de Oliveira Filho
National Director of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference’s Pastoral Care of Tourism.
– Room B – Tourism and care of the environment, in Pope Francisco’s Teaching, in application of the Laudato Si’.
Dr. Javier Sanz Larruga
Law Professor. Expert in Environmental Law.
11.10h
ROUND TABLE
– Santiago, an ever-new way.
12:00h
Coffee Break
12.30h
Conclusive assembly, idea-sharing session. Questions.
Challenges and proposals for the next five years.
Presentation of the 9th World Congress.
14.00h
Transfer to Monte do Gozo.
14.30h
Confraternity Lunch
17.00h
Travelling along the final stage of the Way of St. James as far as the Cathedral.
19.30h
Pilgrims’ Mass
(*) Registration fee includes conference attendance, materials, coffee breaks and meals, and all social activities.
