The Centro Pro Unione in Rome published the transcript of Professor Marshall Breger‘s Fall book launch of his recent book “The Vatican and Permanent Neutrality” (co-edited with Herbert Reginbogin) in the Centro Pro Unione Bulletin. The book is an examination of Vatican approaches to the international law concept of permanent neutrality. It consists of legal, historical, and theological essays. Breger spoke on the Vatican and Permanent Neutrality and introduced the program.

Besides Professor Breger, book contributors published in the Centro Pro Unione Bulletin book launch issue included: Professor Maria d’Arienzo, Professor of Canon Law, University Frederico II, Naples, The Lateran Treaty and the Hermeneutics of Neutrality; Professor Lucia Ceci, Professor of Modern History, University of Rome Tor Vertuga, Fascist Racism in the Italian Colonies: Building a Legal Discrimination; Professor Herbert Reginbogin, Fellow, Institute of Policy Research, The Catholic University of America, Power and Spirituality • The Collision of Canon and International Law.

The Centro Pro Unione was founded in 1898 by the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement (Graymoor). It focuses on ecumenism as well as interfaith dialogue. The Centro Pro Unione, played a key role during the Second Vatican Council (1962— 65), as an informal meeting place used by the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity to bring together official Observers of other churches and journalists with Catholic bishops and theologians, the Centro Pro Unione Bulletin has a circulation of over 50,000 throughout the world.

Professor Breger teaches courses in Public International Law and Legal Issues of the Middle East Peace Process.

To view the Centro Pro Unione Bulletin, click here. (Professor Breger's book launch is on page 16.)