He had previously served as secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

You never know what those radicals over at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace will come up with next.

On 29 December 2010 he was appointed a member of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

The Academy, which is autonomous, maintains a close relationship with the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

The 64-year-old has been head of the Vatican Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and is seen as progressive.

A 1994 document produced by the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace states:

The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace collaborates with all those within the Church who are seeking the same ends.

Also, since the subprime financial crisis, it was found that the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace took more often positions on financial matters.

"Begging is not a crime," said Monsignor Renato Martino, head of a Pontifical council for justice and peace.

He is current president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace since he was appointed by the Pope in October 2009.

Cardinal Peter Turkson, 64, from Ghana, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

Currently president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Turkson has spent much of his career in religious academia.

In the light of the conclusions of the Forum, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace is preparing a more developed document.

The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace issues documents on current topics such as the international debt, racism, the international arms trade and land distribution.

On 1 October 2002, Martino was named President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

Pastor Bonus defined the objectives and mandate of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in the following terms:

The pope has appointed him president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, a job that usually brings with it a red cardinal's hat.

Exiled and denied re-admission to his own country, he became the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at the Vatican.

In 1976 he was appointed Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in the Roman Curia.

Archbishop Renato Rafaele Martino, the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, took part in the service.

A proposal by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace calls for a new world economic order based on ethics and the "achievement of a universal common good."

The cardinal, head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, responded by praising Mexican and United States bishops who opposed the plan.

Cardinal Van Thuân, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace is present at today’s peace prayers in Assisi.

He later worked on the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, was appointed its Under Secretary in 1986 and Secretary in 1994.

As a Christian, I don't understand it," said Renato Martino, president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.