Martin Maier - Jesuit European Social Centre https://jesc.eu Vision and Values for Europe Tue, 06 Apr 2021 11:03:04 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Ethics and sustainability https://jesc.eu/ethics-and-sustainability/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ethics-and-sustainability Tue, 06 Apr 2021 10:49:59 +0000 https://jesc.eu/?p=8103 We are living not only an epoch of change but a change of epoch. Digital and technological innovations are creating a huge range of new opportunities. Technology offers instruments to build a better world but it needs ethical parameters. Not everything that is technically possible is ethically acceptable. Therefore a basic principle of the European […]

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]]> Dreaming and preparing the future of Europe https://jesc.eu/dreaming-and-preparing-the-future-of-europe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dreaming-and-preparing-the-future-of-europe Tue, 01 Dec 2020 10:50:17 +0000 https://jesc.eu/?p=6716 A zoom conference on “A Europe of fraternity and social friendship” Pope Francis is a great dreamer. Recently he published his encyclical Fratelli tutti where he shares his dreams of worldwide fraternity and social friendship. In an even more recent letter on Europe he offers his dreams on the future of this continent which is […]

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]]> Towards another world of fraternity and social friendship https://jesc.eu/towards-another-world-of-fraternity-and-social-friendship-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=towards-another-world-of-fraternity-and-social-friendship-2 Sun, 04 Oct 2020 10:33:44 +0000 https://jesc.eu/?p=6179 On Sunday 4 october Pope Francis published his long-awaited new Encyclical “Fratelli tutti”. The title is a literal quotation from Saint Francis of Assisi, who addressed his brothers and sisters and proposed to them a way of life marked by the flavour of the Gospel. It is a call to love others as brothers and […]

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]]> The EU between a deadly risk and an innovating vision https://jesc.eu/the-eu-between-a-deadly-risk-and-an-innovating-vision/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-eu-between-a-deadly-risk-and-an-innovating-vision Fri, 22 May 2020 14:39:38 +0000 https://jesc.eu/?p=5622   The European Union faces a deadly risk. Due to the lack of solidarity in the beginnings of the Covid-19 pandemic the future of the Union is jeopardized. Maurizio Massari, ambassador of Italy at the EU, in a tribune published by Politico on march 10 uttered an urgent cry for help which was blatantly ignored […]

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]]> Don´t give up hope! Insights from Laudato Sí in times of crisis https://jesc.eu/dont-give-up-hope-insights-from-laudato-si-in-times-of-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dont-give-up-hope-insights-from-laudato-si-in-times-of-crisis Thu, 26 Mar 2020 17:16:57 +0000 https://jesc.eu/?p=5322 In the present situation of confusion and dismay, a first thought should go to the victims of the corona pandemic. There is so much suffering and despair all over the world. There are so many families affected who even cannot say goodbye to their beloved ones. As always the poor are the most severely hit. […]

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