BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:On March 7, 1963, Pope John XIII met the daughter and son-in-law of the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev in a private audience. On the same day, at a UN conference on diplomatic and consular relations, Agostino Casaroli, the architect of the Vatican’s own Ostpolitik (policy towards the East), met with delegates from across the Soviet Bloc. Both instances can be considered the beginning of a new Ostpolitik pursued by the Catholic Church. DTEND:20130923T173000Z DTSTAMP:20140315T011819Z DTSTART:20130923T160000Z LOCATION:5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:The Vatican and Ostpolitik TRANSP:OPAQUE UID:WCEvent28608 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR