May

Turin International Book Fair, Thursday, May 15, 3:15 p.m. (Piazzale Oval - Sala Viola) meeting on “Is it possible to hope? Don Giussani's teaching and our time” on the occasion of the publication of the volume L'incontro che accende la speranza, edited by Davide Prosperi, an unpublished text by the educator priest who has fascinated thousands of young people. Speakers will include Paola Bergamini, journalist for the monthly Tracce, Msgr. Massimo Camisasca, bishop emeritus of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, and Matteo Lancini, psychologist and president of the Minotauro Foundation of Milan.

Turin International Book Fair, Friday, May 16, at 5:15 p.m. (Piazzale Oval - Sala Viola), will be the time for an important meeting to reflect on the future of the Church in contemporary times. Cardinal Jozef De Kesel, archbishop emeritus of Malines-Brussels, author of the volume Christians in a world that is not +, and writer Sandro Veronesi will dialogue on the theme “As Christians in a world that is not (anymore) Christian”. The meeting will be moderated by Alessandro Zaccuri, Italian journalist and novelist.

Turin International Book Fair, Saturday, May 17, 1:45 p.m. (Hall 1 - Sala Ambra), will confront, on the theme “Benedict XVI: ”Christ is a Future! “”, singer-songwriter Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Father Federico Lombardi, former close collaborator of Benedict XVI as Director of the Holy See Press Office and current president of the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation, and Andrea Tornielli, editorial director of the Holy See's Dicastery for Communication, on the occasion of the publication of the text ‘The Lord Holds Us by the Hand,’ which collects homilies delivered by Benedict XVI during his pontificate and as Pope Emeritus.