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Lecture of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI

Faith, Reason and the University -Memories and Reflections

"...While we rejoice in the new possibilities open to humanity, we also see the dangers arising from these possibilities and we must ask ourselves how we can overcome them. We will succeed in doing so only if reason and faith come together in a new way, if we overcome the self-imposed limitation of reason to the empirically verifiable, and if we once more disclose its vast horizons. In this sense theology rightly belongs in the university and within the wide-ranging dialogue of sciences, not merely as a historical discipline and one of the human sciences, but precisely as theology, as inquiry into the rationality of faith."
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Kontroversi Ceramah Paus Benediktus XVI

Fakta dibalik Berita

Tulisan ini sama sekali tidak dimaksudkan untuk membela Paus Benediktus XVI terkait pemberitaan akhir-akhir ini tentang pernyataan beliau yang katanya kontroversial tentang Islam dan jihad. Tulisan ini juga tidak untuk membela otoritas Vatikan ataupun Gereja Katolik. Maksud dari tulisan ini sebenarnya sederhana, ingin mengajak publik Indonesia untuk berpikir sehat dan kritis dalam menarik kesimpulan dan kemudian menyikapi suatu berita.
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Oleh: Hellena Souisa

Tunas Sepak Bola Indonesia Menjajal Belanda

Mungkin tidak banyak yang tahu, bahwa sudah sejak Juni 2006 yang lalu, Belanda kedatangan tamu-tamu muda dari Indonesia. Ya, tim nasional PSSI dibawah usia 23 tahun (U-23) saat ini ada di Negeri Kincir Angin, untuk mengikuti serangkaian latihan sekaligus seleksi pemain. Ditemui hari Sabtu yang lalu usai bertanding melawan tim papan atas liga amatir Belanda, […]
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The Hague, 17 June 2006

The Yogyakarta Memoir

In response to the recent and devastating Yogyakarta earthquake, the Indonesian Student Association in Netherlands together with elements of Indonesian communities in the Netherlands spontaneously initiated the “Solidarity Committee for Yogyakarta Earthquake.” This Committee immediately gained support from various Indonesian organizations in the Netherlands and abroad.
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