” “France: the Churches in support of the victims of torture ” “

Prayer vigils, film projections, themed testimonies and meetings. But especially a campaign to raise awareness about and to denounce the crimes committed by the Russian military forces in Chechenia. It’s all happening in France where the Churches have pulled together to promote an ecumenical mobilization for the international Day in support of the victims of […]

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Parity denied” “

“The social services are women’s best friends”: that’s the view of Raija Rimpilainen, general secretary of the Finnish Social Democratic Party, whose intervention was followed with considerable attention by the participants in the conference “Women: only electors?” held in recent days at Ancona and promoted by Italy’s national Commission for Equal Opportunities and by the […]

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University of Warsaw” “

The “keystone” of the new Europe consists “in fostering the different identities and in ensuring the primacy of the person”. That’s the opinion expressed by Piotr Mazurkiewicz, priest and professor of political sciences at the “Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski” University in Warsaw. “First – he explains – come the centrality and dignity of the human person; […]

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University of Leuven” “

“We especially need another mentality. No European community can exist if we don’t construct it”. The importance of the role of civil society in the construction of Europe is recalled in these terms by Johan Verstraeten, of the University of Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium, according to whom we first need to “develop a European civil […]

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University of Lyons” “

“Europe has a need for a Constitution, but time is needed; we cannot force the pace”. So says Francois Pierre Boursier of the Catholic University of Lyons. He invites a reflection on the populist wave that is characterizing Europe in this period. It is – in Boursier’s view – the manifestation of a “basic anxiety”. […]

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University of Athens” “

“The value of the European Constitution will especially be an educational one”, in the sense that it “will permit the sentiments of unity to be fostered and have a strong symbolic value”. That’s the view of Theodore Fortsakis, professor of law at the national University of Athens, who also emphasizes the importance of unity “between […]

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University of Lisbon” “

A European Constitution would be “a step forward” in the construction of a “common home” in our continent, but it’s an objective that “needs to be reached gradually, without claiming a totally new constitutional text, detached from the history of the European Treaties”. That’s the opinion of Manuel Braga da Cruz, rector of the Catholic […]

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University of Lvov (Ukraine)” “

Safeguarding the presence of the religious minorities, and doing so in such a way that “situations of tension or conflict with the majority religious confessions are not created”: that is the hope for the future European treaty expressed by Pe tro Stetciuk, vice-rector of the national University of Lvov (Ukraine).The fear is that other ‘walls’, […]

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Universities of Milan and Rome ” “

“One of the most important contributions that the universities can make to the construction of a European identity is the formation of a ruling class; this has always been a priority objective for the Catholic Universities – I think especially of the university founded by Agostino Gemelli. The Catholic University of Milan was founded precisely […]

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Memory and culture” “

“In the process leading to a new institutional system now underway, Europe cannot ignore her Christian heritage”. That’s what John Paul II writes in the message he sent to the participants in the Conference “Towards a European Constitution?”, held in Rome in recent days. The conference was organized by the Office for university pastoral care […]

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