The team is sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Culture.

He also became a consultant to the Pontifical Council for Culture (founded 1982).

The Italian cardinal, 70, serves as the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture.

President of the Pontifical Council for Culture.

The Pontifical Council for Culture is also looking for cricket-playing nuns to form a women's team, it said.

An official with the Pontifical Council for Culture, which is backing the conference, said the Templeton grant covered almost half the meeting's budget.

He was appointed as the first President of the newly established Pontifical Council for Culture on 20 May 1982.

Ravasi, who is also president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, deplored that Christian faith and art had "gone their separate ways".

On 10 December 2011 he was appointed a member of the Pontifical Council for Culture for a five-year renewable term.

"We are not sending any altar pieces," joked Ravasi, whose formal title is president of the Pontifical Council for Culture.

The Pontifical Council for Culture has announced the formation of a Vatican cricket club, drawing on priests and seminarians from across the world.

As the president of the Rome-based Pontifical Council for Culture, Ravasi certainly has the proximity and network to get elected.

In December 2009, Adoukonou was appointed the secretary, or second-ranking official, of the Pontifical Council for Culture.

Pontifical Council for Culture (Dicastery presided over by Cardinal Poupard)

The refreshments were the backdrop to Tuesday's announcement of the club's formation by the Pontifical Council for Culture, with a little help from Australia.

Gianfranco Ravasi, who serves as the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, made the comments on Wednesday at a press conference.

In 1983 he was appointed to the Pontifical Council for Culture by Pope John Paul II.

The find was “an extraordinary event”, said Monsignor Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture.

"It's another language, something completely different," says Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, who has been leading the effort.

“This is not a new approach,” says Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture.

According to Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, "sport and faith are closely related."

The Academy replaces the Latinitas Foundation and is linked to the Pontifical Council for Culture on which it depends.

Cardinal Ravasi, 70, has been the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture - or the Vatican's culture minister - for the past five years.

Cardinal Ravasi is the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, the Vatican equivalent of a culture minister.

On 1 July 2014 van Bühren was appointed by Pope Francis as consultor to the Pontifical Council for Culture.