The Catholic Church
Towards The Problem
of Smoking Harm Reduction

Agenda of seminar

25.05.2022 / Wednesday / 10:00

Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
Auditorium Benedetto XVI
Piazza di Sant'Apollinare 49, 00186 Rome

10:00

The common prayer of the participants and general welcome

H.E. Mons. Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi
Bishop of Nueve de Julio

 

10:10

General welcome

Rev. Sr. Alessandra Smerilli F.M.A

Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development

10:30

Message Address His Holiness Pope Francis to the participants of the Seminar

His Holiness Pope Francis

10:40

Understanding of the common good: Reflections on the smoking harm reduction.

H.Em. Card. Michael Czerny

Prefect of Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (DPIHD)

Rev. Fr. Christopher Mahar on behalf of Cardinal M.Czerny

11:00

Testimony

H.E. Amb. Przemysław Häuser-Schöneich

Ambassador Of the Order of Malta to Antigua and Barbuda

11:10

The fifth commandment: 'Thou shalt not kill'. Thou shalt not kill thyself

H.E. Mons. Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi

Bishop of Nueve de Julio

11:30

The concept of freedom in the context of tobacco addiction

H.E. Mons. Grzegorz Ryś

Archbishop of Lodz

12:10

Coffee break

12:30

From Columbus to Pope Francis - the end of the history of tobacco in the Vatican State

12:40

The importance of the of Catholic Church voice in international organizations (e.g. WHO) in the context of reducing the effects of smoking

H.E. Mons. Fortunatus Nwachukwu

Permanent Observer of Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva

13:00

Challenges of contemporary approach towards smoking harm reduction and increase of effectiveness of treatment

Prof. Szczepan Cofta

Clinical Hospital of Poznan University of Medical Science

13:30

Lunch Break

14:00

Burning problem

14:10

The right to full information in the light of Church teaching. The context of smoking harm reduction

Rev. Prof. Robert Nęcek

Pontifical University of John Paul II, Cracow

14:30

Behavioral medicine's experience in smoking harm reduction

Prof. Paul Aveyard

University of Oxford

15:20

EU beating cancer plan: resent development on smoking harm reduction

MD Bartosz Arłukowicz

Chief of the Beating Cancer Commission in European Parliament

15:40

A word of thanks to the participants of the seminar

Rev. Mons. Charles Namugera

Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development

16:00

The common prayer of the participants

Rev. Mons. Dariusz Giers

Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development