News
Prof. Bergold new President of Ordo socialis
Prof. Bergold new President of Ordo socialis
Bad Honnef, 10 September 2013
The members assembly of Ordo socialis hold in the Catholic Social Institute (ksi) has elected Prof. Dr. Ralph Bergold, director of the ksi, new president. Ordo socialis was founded 1986 in Cologne by imitative of the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs (BKU) as an scientific association for the promotion of the Christian social teaching. Its central mission is the worldwide diffusion of texts covering subjects of the Christian social ethics into and from several languages. The work is supported by a scientific council composed by 45 highly qualified experts from four continents. The new president who follows the president Cornelius Fetsch, exercising this function since the foundation and who retires on his own wish, intends to accentuate above all the international aspects of the work of Ordo socialis.
Cornelius-Georg Fetsch who successfully led and promoted Ordo socialis for 27 years has been elected member of honor. The executive committee and the members attending presented their thanks to him for his engagement. His presidential style was marked by human sensitivity and the will to find common solutions in a constructive working together. As an expression of thanks and acknowledgement a beautiful volume with photos of the Sistine Chapel was presented to him. C.G. Fetsch will not simply retire; by his experience he will stand-by the new president.
A new treasurer has also been elected. Peter van den Brock, retired director of the Pax –Bank e.G. and member of the board of Pax-Bank Foundation has accepted this function.
On 16 November 2013 the Ordo socialis award will be conferred for the first time. Laureate is Prof. Dr. Paul Kirchhof. The ancient Minister-President Prof. Dr. Bernhard Vogel has accepted to give the eulogy.
(Deutsch) Grundlagen der Sozialkonzeption aus orthodoxer Perspektive franz.
Goldt-Seguridad y paz
Seguridad y paz: 50 años de la encíclica Pacem in terris
Sicherheit und Frieden – 50 Jahre Enzyclika “Pacem in terris”
The German original of this article by Dr. Christoph Goldt is published in “Die Neue Ordnung”, 67. Jg., Heft 3, Juni 2013, p. 180-194. Dr. Goldt studied history, political science and catholic theology. He publishes to historical-political science topics. The German original and its Spanish translation are online. (German, Spanish)
(Deutsch) Ist d. Kath.Soz.Lehre konservativ J.Thesing
¿Es conservadora la doctrina social de la Iglesia? Is the Catholic Social Teaching conservativ?
Dr. h. c. Josef Thesing, member of the Executive Committee of Ordo socialis and former Deputy Sectretary General of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, dicusses this question in his Spanish lecture he gave at Cracow and Santiago. (Spanish)
(Deutsch) Religionsfreiheit als universales Menschenrecht
Religion – un droit humain universel
The German original of this article was pubished in Analysen und Argumente, Perspektiven deutscher Außenpolitik Nr. 120 on April 2013. Editor is the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, St. Augustin. The author, Helmut Reifeld, is head of the foreign office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Morocco. He studied history, philosophy and political science at Freiburg, Münster and Edingburgh. (German, French)