We have a radical need of others, not only to love or to be loved by them, but to learn from them. We are put to a particular test by values —accepting or rejecting them— when we meet them present in others, by whom they are both incarnated and personalized. "Incarnated" values: with the advantage of the concrete form this takes, and with the limitations that any particular human presentation of a value inevitably offers.

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Lo europeo se podría caracterizar como una fina combinación de tres elementos: refinamiento, trascendencia y amor a la libertad. El futuro de esta síntesis, amenazada por la caída de la natalidad y por la secularización, depende de que se decida a ser de nuevo ella misma.

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The contemporary self wants to be recognized, connected: it wants to be visible. This is how we become real to ourselves by being seen by others. The goal now, it seems, is simply to become known, to turn oneself into a sort of miniature celebrity. How many friends do I have on Facebook? How many people are reading my blog? However, what is disappearing from our lives is solitude.

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As with all technological innovations, Facebook presents us with something like a double-edged sword. While it permits us to maintain friendships that otherwise would unfortunately wither away, its propensity to create and maintain such abundant friendships threatens to choke those friends that matter the most.

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Ciertamente, los mensajes tienen que ser actuales y relevantes, y los medios tienen que ser los adecuados a cada momento. Pero comunicar es más que eso. Comunicar es dirigir y por tanto, aportar visión y esperanza, lograr que las personas se comprometan y den su vida, en este caso lograr que la fe vuelva a vivirse y Dios esté presente. En este sentido, se puede decir que los problemas de comunicación de la fe suelen ser también problemas de fe.

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Silence and stillness are not enough for us. They might be for a little while, as an immediate escape from the din and demands of daily life. But they are means to an end rather than ends in themselves. In his Letter for World Communications Day Pope Benedict XVI shows how silence is meant to serve relationships – with God and others.

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Hay otros muchos aspectos desde los cuales explicar, de modo más inmediato, la necesidad del ecologismo y las patologías de la vida urbana. Voy a elegir dos. El primero es el silencio.

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El hombre tiene que aprender a ser dueño de sí mediante el vencimiento y la abnegación, y con ello a ser dueño de su propio poder. La libertad que da este dominio orientará aquella seriedad hacia las soluciones verdaderas, en tanto que hoy vemos cómo se emplea en ridiculeces una gravedad casi metafísica; hará que el mero valor se convierta en fortaleza y desenmascarará los pseudoheroísmos, en virtud de los cuales se deja inmolar el hombre, fascinado por pseudoabsolutos.

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More than thirty years ago, when the world was still divided in two, Alexander Solzhenitsyn delivered a commencement address at Harvard University in which he noted some of the weaknesses and defects of the West. Despite the years which have passed, they continue to be relevant today and invite one to reflect about the degree to which the situation has changed and the challenges which still remain.

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Watch as the camera tracks an act of kindness as its passed from one individual to the next and manages to boomerang back to the person who set it into motion.

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The story, the hard work, the dream, the unconditional love of a father to his son, the determination of the son to reach the goal, the passion for competition, and most of all the drive for conquering the impossible ... these things were all so inspiring to me and to all the people in that room and definitely could inspired the people who will learn their story just now.. very heart moving!!

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Passing on the faith is a very long-standing issue, one that has been present throughout the two-thousand-year history of the Christian community. The Church has always seen herself as a messenger, entrusted with news that has been revealed to her and is worth passing on.

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Harambee Association’s goal is to promote initiatives in education and development in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Las formas no son todo, ni lo más importante. Pero no hay contenido alguno que se sostenga a sí mismo sin una forma que lo acompañe, lo proteja y lo recubra.

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The magnanimous soul rooted in goodness is able to to things not as right or wrong but as great or small. Alexandre Havard is the founder of HVLI and serves as Vice-Chairman of the Board. Born in France, Mr. Havard is a graduate of one of France’s leading law schools, and worked as a lawyer throughout Europe. In 2007 Alexandre Havard founded the Havard Virtuous Leadership Institute (HVLI). Since 2007 he has been living and working in Paris, Helsinki, and Moscow, and regularly travels to the United States. He oversees the HVLI network and offers the Virtuous Leadership seminars to business executives, educators, public officials, and MBA students and consults with some of the largest international corporations around the world. Alexandre Havard is the author of Virtuous Leadership: An Agenda for Personal Excellence, which was published in New York by Scepter Publishers in 2007. The book is in its fourth printing in English, it has been translated into 13 other languages, including Chinese, Russian, French, Polish and Spanish.

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What is wrong with the world? What is wrong is that we do not ask what is right. Social science is by no means always content with the normal human soul; it has all sorts of fancy souls for sale. Man as a social idealist will say "I am tired of being a Puritan; I want to be a Pagan," or "Beyond this dark probation of Individualism I see the shining paradise of Collectivism." Now in bodily ills there is none of this difference about the ultimate ideal. No one says "I am tired of this headache; I want some toothache"…

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If judged at the time of their deaths by the results of their efforts to advance the political causes that were important to them, both Cicero and Burke were failures. Yet, it is unlikely that they could immagine the enormous influence their philosophical writings would have in years to come.

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El profesor del IESE Pablo Cardona, analiza en esta entrevista las dimensiones del conflicto. Según cuenta el profesor, el conflicto se divide en la dimensión "racional", que tiene que ver con la falta de alineamiento en las ideas, y la dimensión "emocional", que abarca ya no las ideas sino la confianza entre las partes. En la mayoría de ocasiones, estas dimensiones van unidas y en su opinión esto complica el proceso de resolución de un conflicto. El profesor de Dirección de Personas en las Organizaciones considera que el conflicto ayuda a "avanzar, a replantearse, a buscar soluciones más creativas", sobre todo cuando se trata de un conflicto más racional. Cuando la dimensión afectada es la emocional, una buena solución del conflicto puede ayudar a aprender a perdonar, a conocer las limitaciones mutuas e incluso a "entendernos mejor y querernos más". El profesor de Dirección de Personas en las Organizaciones considera que el conflicto ayuda a "avanzar, a replantearse, a buscar soluciones más creativas", sobre todo cuando se trata de un conflicto más racional. Cuando la dimensión afectada es la emocional, una buena solución del conflicto puede ayudar a aprender a perdonar, a conocer las limitaciones mutuas e incluso a "entendernos mejor y querernos más".

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«After personally experiencing two WYDs, I can only say that Pope John Paul II was truly inspired when he created this important meeting of young people and of the world with the Lord». Interview of the Holy Father Benedict XVI with the journalists during the flight to Madrid, 18 August 2011.

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Al volver ahora a vuestra vida ordinaria, os animo a que guardéis en vuestro corazón esta gozosa experiencia y a que crezcáis cada día más en la entrega de vosotros mismos a Dios y a los hombres. Es posible que en muchos de vosotros se haya despertado tímida o poderosamente una pregunta muy sencilla: ¿Qué quiere Dios de mí? ¿Cuál es su designio sobre mi vida? ¿Me llama Cristo a seguirlo más de cerca?

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Volunteer firefighter Mark Bezos tells a story of an act of heroism that didn't go quite as expected -- but that taught him a big lesson: Don't wait to be a hero.

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A veces el modo en el que se afrontan los problemas es la mejor forma de empezar a solucionarlos, así se desprende de la experiencia narrada en este cuento hablado.

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What does solitude have to do with leadership? A leader is someone who makes tough decisions. But in order to do so, he has to know how to think for himself and he has to know himself well. This requires the ability to engage in solitary reflection.

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Depuis longtemps, ma pensée va souvent aux populations de la Côte d'Ivoire, traumatisées par de douloureuses luttes internes et de graves tensions sociales et politiques. Alors que j'exprime ma proximité à tous ceux qui ont perdu un être cher et souffrent de la violence, je lance un appel pressant afin que soit engagé le plus vite possible un processus de dialogue constructif pour le bien commun. L'opposition dramatique rend plus urgent le rétablissement du respect et de la cohabitation pacifique. Aucun effort ne doit être épargné dans ce sens.

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In 1985, talking to UNIV Participants, John Paul II said: “It’s a great idea to have this annual international meeting of students from around the world and it’s good that you have the chance to get together in this way and to sing together. It’s a great joy. For me, it’s a great joy.”

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Our aim in this video is to investigate whether Christianity could inspire a common, global, yet diversified culture. In order to knit our presentation together around this large question, we approach the theme from the viewpoint of human rights, how they have been expressed and understood today as in the past, and how they are lived. We observe briefly that the resulting conceptions and practices have deep implications in all the spheres of culture.

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El alto aprecio que se tiene hoy de la libertad, muchas veces va de la mano con una idea incompleta de la misma: ¿basta elegir para ser ya libres?, ¿o no irrumpir en las fronteras de la libertad de los otros? ¿Es un límite contra los demás o un puente hacia ellos? El autor muestra algunas razones que pueden enriquecer nuestra idea sobre la libertad.

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El relativismo cultural sostiene que las diversas culturas son absolutamente incomparables. ¿Por qué se llegó a ese extremo? Y ¿qué tiene de verdad? Ciertamente, no siempre es fácil acceder a los modos de ver el mundo de otras culturas, pero que sea difícil no quiere decir que sea imposible. Gombrich ofrece una interesante reflexión, escrita en un momento en que el marxismo y el deconstructivismo parecían la última palabra en las ciencias del espíritu.

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Quisiera recordar con particular afecto a los mineros que se encuentran atrapados en el yacimiento de san José, en la región chilena de Atacama. Les animó a estar serenos y les encomendó a San Lorenzo, patrón de los mineros.

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The competition consists of TV documentaries and video-clips submitted from students (25 years and under) which are distributed via internet and deal with ethnic, religious, social, economic and cultural issues in Africa.

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Cambio, modernidad, progreso, innovación. La vida moderna avanza a grandes saltos.¿Hay lugar en ella para la tradición? ¿Tiene sentido algo así en el mundo de hoy? Alguien realista reconocería que no venimos de la nada. Más aún, que hemos heredado casi todo: desde la manera de caminar hasta las leyes y la lengua.

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Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday life and a secure job, a yearning for something really truly greater. Is this simply an empty dream that fades away as we become older? No! Men and women were created for something great, for infinity.

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A film by Roger Villaroya that won first prize in the Notodo film festival for this beautiful tribute to the third age.

Audio in Spanish, subtitles in English.

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Excerpt from the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa, following the first-ever democratic elections. (4'13)

"The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us."

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With his usual clarity, Benedict XVI explains to young people why definitive and irreversible decisions are a true manifestation of human freedom necessary for the fulfillment of their thirst for happiness.  The Pope also warns of the hidden dangers in the idea that ‘permanent change’ is the fullest expression of human autonomy.

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In an audience held in St. Peter’s Square, Benedict XVI greeted over 4000 university students who are taking part in the UNIV Conference in Rome. Quoting St. Josemaría, he encouraged them to seek God in their daily life.

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Strathmore University’s Deputy Vice Chancellor Dr. Florence Oloo explains Project Harambee.

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The competition consists of TV documentaries and video-clips submitted by students (25 years and under) which are distributed via internet and deal with ethnic, religious, social, economic and cultural issues in Africa.
The deadline is 15 September 2010.

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Jeff Glor from CBS News shows the destruction and subsequent desperation throughout Haiti after the devastating earthquake.

Probably more than 100,000 dead and 3,000,000 injured and homeless: it is but a glimpse of the aftermath of the Richter 7.3 earthquake that devastated Haiti, the poorest country of the western hemisphere.

Benedict XVI manifested his proximity to those who suffer from this great calamity, asking God for consolation and relief. He also asks everyone for generosity and solidarity.

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Harambee promotes educational programmes in Africa and about Africa – developmental projects on the sub-Saharan region and awareness-building activities elsewhere designed to encourage a positive outlook on African culture.

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Es necesaria una reflexión que saque a la luz en qué consiste ser cristiano. En esta línea se sitúa el artículo que aquí proponemos, centrado en la concepción —originalmente cristiana— del hombre como persona, esto es, como imagen de Dios.

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LunediÌ€ 6 Aprile 2009 la terra ha tremato sotto i nostri piedi. Il terremoto ha colpito tutti. Chi negli affetti piuÌ€ cari, chi nella perdita della casa e di tutto cioÌ€ che essa conteneva. L’Italia e gli italiani hanno risposto subito a questa chiamata, senza perdere un minuto.

Anche noi di Chums abbiamo risposto a questo appello condividendo questa 51° edizione con gli universitari dell’Aquila. Abbiamo spostato la sede del Convegno dalle comode e ridenti sponde del lago di Como, alle pietre spezzate abruzzesi.

I giorni che abbiamo trascorso in Abruzzo sono stati divisi tra incontri, seminari e tempo da trascorrere accanto ai bambini e agli anziani, le due fasce più fragili della popolazione.

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“De economía no sé nada. Me propuse escribir un diccionario sobre la actual crisis financiera para poder entenderla yo�. Son las palabras del genial autor de la mejor explicación en castellano sobre la crisis subprime. Conferencia en el Colegio Mayor Ayete (San Sebastián, España)

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Testimonio de una abuela encargada de su nieto que sufre parálisis cerebral. Esta es la historia de la vida real de Margarita Rojas Suarez y su nieto Othon Moreno. Viven en la Colonia Jalalpa El Grande en México, D.F. Admirable ejemplo de entrega, amor incondicional, y sacrifico por los seres queridos.

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A voice for human dignity. We stand for reframing ethical and policy debates in terms of human dignity, not dollars and cents or political calculation.

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Aceprensa es una agencia periodística especializada en el análisis de tendencias básicas de la sociedad, corrientes de pensamiento y estilos de vida.

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A conversation with James B. Stenson: offers his experience and advice to university students. James Stenson is an educator, speaker and writer on family concerns. He has authored books such as Upbringing, Compass: A Handbook on Parent Leadership, Lifeline: The Religious Upbringing of Your Children and Father, the Family Protector.

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Conference held on October 19, 2006 in Georgetown University. Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and at the King's College (Empire State Building), in New York City.

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Entrevista al Prelado del Opus Dei, Gran Canciller de la Universidad de Navarra.

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La solidarité est le mouvement qui accompagne la perception de l'autre que soi. Elle est caractéristique de la personne et manifeste son indispensable rapport à l'autre, parce qu'elle est déjà présente, d'une certaine manière, dans le rapport fondamental à soi.

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El hombre vive en sociedad y no por casualidad sino por necesidad. Es por tanto responsabilidad de todos cuidar el ambiente social en el que nos movemos para que favorezca el perfeccionamiento humano: el crecimiento en las virtudes.

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¿Cómo reaccionaron los primeros cristianos ante el mundo que les rodeaba? A veces, aparece la tentación de atribuir la expansión del Evangelio a prodigios y milagros. Sin embargo, la fe fue el prodigio que arrastró a hombres de toda clase, condición y cultura. La fe, y el amor hacia Cristo.

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