Presentation
[English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

Documents of the Holy See on Tourism, Pilgrimages and Shrines

• Messages of the Holy Father for the World Tourism Day

• 25^th World Day of Tourism

  • Presentation Cardinal Stephen Fumio HAMAO

  • Comment H.E. Msgr. Agostino MARCHETTO

• 24^th World Day of Tourism

  • Presentation Cardinal Stephen Fumio HAMAO

  • Comment H.E. Msgr. Agostino MARCHETTO

• 23^th World Day  of Tourism

  • Memoria del dono del Creato. Un criterio per l'Ecoturismo, S.E. Archbishop  Stephen Fumio HAMAO, President of the Pontifical Council

    [Italian]

  • Ecoturismo, chiave dello sviluppo sostenibile, S.E. Archbishop  Agostino MARCHETTO, Secretary of the Pontifical Council

    [Italian]

Documents, studies and conferences of the Dicastery

• Messages from the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People on the occasion of World Tourism Day (27^th September) 2006 - 2007

• La via Francigena, strada d’Europa e delle sue radici cristiane. Una risorsa spirituale, pastorale e culturale.

  Arcivescovo Agostino MARCHETTO

• Aspectos de pastoral de la mobilidad humana

  Arzobispo Agostino Marchetto

• Pellegrinaggi e santuari: una visione del turismo religioso

  Arcivescovo Agostino Marchetto

• Final Document of the Third Asian Congress on Pilgrimages and Shrines

  (also in “Français, Italiano, Português, Español, Deutscheâ€�)

• Pilgrimages and Shrines: Places of Hope

  Archbishop Agostino Marchetto

• Tourism, a Transversal Reality: Pastoral Aspects

  Archbishop Agostino MARCHETTO

• On the occasion of the Workshop for Diocesan Pilgrimage Coordinators and Shrine Directors (USA)

  Cardinal Renato Raffaele MARTINO

• Final Document of the Meeting of the National Directors for the Pastoral Care of Tourism in Europe (2006)

  (also in Italiano, Français, Español)

• Le tourisme, une réalité transversale: aspects pastoraux

  S.Exc. Mgr Agostino MARCHETTO

• El Magisterio de la Iglesia y el Turismo signo de los tiempos

  S.E. Mons.Agostino MARCHETTO

• II Asian Congress on Pilgrimages and Shrines (Seul, Korea, 21 – 23 November 2005): Pilgrimages and Shrines, Gifts of God-love in Asia today

  • Final Document

    [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]  

• Pilgrinages in time and space

  H.E. Msgr. Agostino MARCHETTO

• IV European Congress on Pilgrimages and Shrines , Marian Shrine of Kevelaer (Germany) 20 – 23 September 2004 : “Ecumenism of Holinessâ€� - Pilgrimage at the Beginning of the Third Millennium 

  • Final Document

     [English, French, German, Italian, Spanish]

  • Proceedings of the Congress

• III European Congress on Shrines and Pilgrimages (Montserrat, March 2002) [Proceedings are available]

  • Introductive speech
    [Spanish]

  • Conclusions
    [English, French, German, Italian, Spanish]

• VI World Congress on the Pastoral Care of Tourism (Bangkok, Thailand, July 5 - 8, 2004): "Tourism at the service of bringing people together"

  • Final Document

    [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]  

  • Proceedings of the Congress

• Meeting on the Pastoral Care of Tourism and Pilgrimages in the Middle East and North Africa (Fatqa, Liban, March 5-7, 2003)

  • Opening Address, H.B. Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros SFEIR

    [French]

  • Welcome Address, H.E. Archbishop Agostino MARCHETTO

    [French]

  • The Pastoral Care of Tourism in the Evangelizing Mission of the Church, H.E. Archbishop Agostino MARCHETTO

    [French, Spanish]

  • Message

    [French]

  • Closing Statement

    [French]

• Other documents ...

• Calendar

• Annual Report