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Pope: may the international community help end hostilities in Georgia and Ossetia PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 11 August 2008
benedetto-xvi-bressanone.jpg The pope hopes that the violence in Georgia and south Ossetia may come to an end, and calls upon "the international community and the most influential countries in the current situation to make every effort to support and promote initiatives aimed at reaching a peaceful and lasting solution, for the sake of open and respectful coexistence". The echo of the war underway in the Caucusus has reached all the way to the mountains of northern Italy, where Benedict XVI's vacation comes to an end today.
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Solzhenitsyn: the face of 20th-century Russia PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008
solzhenitsyn.jpg by Stefano Caprio
The author of the Gulag Archipelago was a scholar of the 19th century who foresaw the contradictions of the third millennium. His return after exile, in 1994, marked the end of Soviet Russia even more than Gorbachev's glasnost did. A man of faith, but hardly sectarian, he left room for everyone to participate in his own journey of conversion, beginning from the rediscovery of the dignity of man and culminating in consent to Christian revelation in its historical expression.
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