benedict xvi and islam

The silence of the intellectuals

Introduced by a tribute by the Rector, Professor Alf Zimmer, Benedict XVI addressed a lectio magistralis to the world of science in the Aula Magna of the University of Regensburg on Tuesday, 12 September 2006. The theme of his lecture was: “ Faith, reason and university. Memories and reflections“. Since its style and structure, as […]

di Gaspare Mura Urbaniana University - Rome

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Image and reason

“The Pope’s declarations on Islam”, headlined some authoritative papers, focusing on an historical fragment and torn off the Pope’s argument at Regensburg University.At the same time, surprisingly, the network of the Arabic Al-Jazeera TV channel transmitted live the Pope’s Angelus from Castel Gandolfo on Sunday, 17 September.We live in a globalized, multicultural and multifaith society. […]

di Gabriel Nissim Espaces -Brussels

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Denied a family

In the world, according to UNICEF data, 145 million children are living in an institution, deprived of the love and warmth of a family. Of these, one and a half million are in Eastern Europe. The figures emerged from an international conference on orphans organized by the association Friends of Children/Amici dei Bambini, and recently […]

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Bridge to hope

“Bridge to hope”: that’s how OSCAR GUERRA , delegate for migrations of the diocese of Tenerife, calls the Canary Isles. He describes the characteristics of the new immigration directed at Spain from various African countries over the last 11 months. Spain has already begun repatriating clandestine immigrants, sending back over a thousand from Senegal who […]

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Focolari, 50th anniversary of the “tragic events”

Fifty years after the tragic events surrounding the crushing of the Hungarian uprising, a proposal of life for a new humanity has been made: that of universal brotherhood. Some 11,000 people from 92 countries participated in the international rally promoted by the Focolare Movement in the Hungarian capital on 16 September. Its programme and aims […]

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The visit of Croatian bishops

A delegation of the Croatian Bishops’ Conference visited Hungary, at the invitation of the President of the Hungarian episcopate, Cardinal Péter Erdo. Cardinal Josip Bozanic, Archbishop of Zagreb, head of the delegation, and Cardinal Erdo gave a press conference on the meeting on 13 September. The two bishops’ conferences regularly meet for bilateral meetings. Last […]

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Sára, the nun who saved persecuted Jews

“Whoever lives according to the will and pleasure of God, is blessed! Beatitude is the realization of God’s will”, wrote Sister Sára Salkaházi of the Society of the Social Sisters 70 years ago in her diary on 30 August 1936. She was beatified on Sunday 17 September 2006, just on the day on which Sister […]

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Italy: European meeting of the apostleship of the sea

A network of European ports to improve the assistance provided in ‘Stella Maris’ centres and thus provide better support to seamen and follow them in their voyages: that’s the proposal made by the European Meeting of the Apostleship of the Sea that opened at Rocca di Papa (Rome) on 18 September. The theme of this […]

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Spain: families against “education in citizenship”

Starting from the next school year 2007-2008 students in Spanish schools will find a new subject on their curriculum, “Education in citizenship” (one of the innovations of the Organic Law on Education), which according to Catholic family associations is a “violation of parents’ freedom to choose the education they wish for their children and imposes […]

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Germany: plenary assembly of the bishops

A seminar on “Church and culture”, a review of the recent visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Bavaria and the election of the members and chairmen of the fourteen episcopal committees, and the various sub-committees, are the main questions on the order of the day of the autumn plenary assembly of the German Bishops’ Conference, […]

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