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Archbishop Christodoulos criticizes the film "The Passion": "Excessive realism".
Athens [ecclesia report]: Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and All Greece watched a private screening of Mel Gibson's picture "The Passion of the Christ" organized by the film distributor in an Athens cinema theatre yesterday.
Archbishop Christodoulos stated afterwards that the picture is characterized by extreme and shocking realism, mainly the violent scenes, which are in conflict with the controlled narration of the Gospels.
The goal of the Gospels is not to provoke the faithful or to excite their imagination and feelings, or to provoke feelings of hatred and indignation against the people, who participated at the crucifixion, given the fact that the passion of Christ was voluntary, said the Archbishop.
“The Passion’s target is the self-encounter to our inner self and to our sins. For that reason, we Christians live the Passion in the devoutness of the Divine Worship,” said Archbishop Christodoulos.
Serbian Orthodox Church has its rights in Kosovo-Metohija
Belgrade - His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Pavle addressed a letter to EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana and UNMIK chief Harri Holkeri protesting over the attempt of interim institutions of self-government in Kosovo-Metohija to take away from the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) its right to a land on which the Christ the Savor Church and the Sveti Sava cultural centre in Pristina are being built, read a statement by the SPC Information Service.
In his letter, Patriarch Pavle said that the Serbian Church has no intentions to hassle the Albanian community or the university, but that the activities of the Orthodox Church will contribute to the creation of a multiethnic, multireligious and democratic Kosovo-Metohija.
"We sincerely hope that you will protect the rights of our church with your timely official reaction and that you will make it clear with concrete measures that interim institutions of self-government in the province cannot carry out the process of establishment of a legal state to the expense of the Serbian Orthodox Church and its devoted people", has written Patriarch Pavle.
The spiritual heritage of Gregory the Great" Symposium to mark 14th centenary of death of Pope Gregory the Great
Rome (Fides) - To mark the 14th centenary since the death of Pope Saint Gregory the Great the St Anselmo College on the Aventine Hill and St Gregory's Monastery on the Celio Hill are promoting a three day symposium 10 - 12 March 2004 which will be held at St Anselmo College. The study sessions will be presided respectively by Cardinal Walter Kasper, Cardinal Tomas Spidlik and Cardinal Edmund Casimir Szoka.
Conferences will be given by Professors Vittorio Montemaggi, Fabrizio Martello, Cristina Ricci, Danikl Hombergen OCSO, Alfredo Simsn OSB, Gregory Collins OSB, Mariella Carpinello, Pietrina Pellegrini, Ubaldo Cortoni OSB Cam, Iohn Dellis, Gianpaolo Rigotti, Cesare Giraudo SJ, Mons.
Marcello Semeraro, Roberto Fornaciari OSB Cam, Stefano Salati OSB Cam, John Flack, Nicolangelo D'Acunto e Elmar Salmann OSB.
For more info: segrett@libero.it links: www.santanselmo.org.
