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                               VIS-Press releases

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY DAY, A PRELUDE TO WORLD YOUTH DAY

VATICAN CITY, MAR 4, 2005 (VIS) - The Third European Day for Universities, in
preparation for World Youth Day in August in Cologne, Germany, will be
celebrated throughout Europe tomorrow on the theme "Intellectual and Scientific
Research, a Way to Meet Christ." At 5:30 p.m. there will be a Marian prayer
vigil in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican during which Cardinal Camillo Ruini,
vicar for Rome, will read a message through which the Holy Father will
spiritually accompany this encounter.

There will be a satellite linkup with simultaneous events in cathedrals and
shrines in Europe. The national gatherings will be led by Cardinals Maximilian
Sterzinsky in Berlin, Jose da Cruz Policarpo in Lisbon, Lubomyr Husar in Kiev,
Antonio Maria Rouco Varela in Madrid, Josip Bozanic of Zagreb, and Tarcisio
Bertone in Genoa, and by Archbishops Francesco Cacucci in Bari, Ioan Robu in
Bucharest, Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk, auxiliary of Kiev, Wasyl Medwit, apostolic
vicar of the apostolic exarchate of Kiev, Rrok Mirdita of Tirana and Bishop
Alan Hopes of Westminster

An estimated 10,000 young people are scheduled to be present in the Paul VI
Hall where a number of them will give reflections on and witness to their faith
and all will recite the rosary.

Starting today, the Pontifical Lateran University is holding a three-day
European workshop for university professors on the theme "Intellectual
Research, A Way to Meet Christ. The teaching of the Encyclical 'Fides et
Ratio'." Copies of the encyclical will be given to university students.
Following the vigil in Rome, young people will accompany the Cross in a
candelit process to the church of St. Agnes in Piazza Navona.

This university day is organized by the Council of Episcopal Conferences of
Europe with the purpose, says a CCEE communique on the event, of "building a
new humanism, gift and resource for the continent's future generations."

"The aim of this annual day," says the press release, "is to respond to the
extraordinary Magisterium of John Paul II who called on university communities,
as centers of scientific research, of producing knowledge and of the cultural
and professional formation of the young generation, to build a new humanism
which proposes once again the Christian roots of Europe by bringing them out
into the open.

"The foundations of this humanism are trust in reason as a tool for getting to
know the truth about humanity, the primacy of the person over technology, the
opportunities that globalization offers to the world today to promote communion
and friendship between peoples, the need to participate in social and political
life with a view to serving one's brothers and sisters, and the development of
intellectual charity as a mission of the university world."
.../THIRD UNIVERSITY DAY/CCEE:RUINIVIS 050304 (430)

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