ADDRESS BY G. WEIGEL AT THE GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY
december 2004

     GeorgeWeigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. In his address at the Gregorian Universitu he reflects on the problems of civilization

      ....."Probing to the deeper roots of Europe's crisis of civilizational morale is important for understanding Europe today and for discerning whatever promising paths of European renewal there may be. Getting at the roots of "Europe's problem" is also important for understanding a set of problems Americans may face in the not-too-distant future. And that means that both Europeans and Americans must learn to think in new ways about the dynamics of history....."

    .....The deepest currents of "history" are spiritual and cultural, rather than political and economic......"history" is driven by culture -- by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies deem to be true and good and noble; by the expressions they give to those convictions in language, literature and the arts; by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their lives on.

    The address of George Weigel is published by ZENIT at the following URL
http://www.zenit.org/english/ : "Main page" - "Politics without God"

APOSTOLIC LETTER MANE NOBISCUM DOMINE
OF THE HOLY FATHER JOHN PAUL II
FOR THE YEAR OF THE EUCHARIST
october 2004 - october 2005