Women Vision
Pax Romana's women have always been very active and alive within the individual member groups but were hardly ever given a special voice.
At the World Assembly in Warsaw and Krakow in 2004 the European lady participants promoted the idea of working together more closely. This finally led to the first Pax Romana Women's Meeting in Prague from 20th January to 22nd January, 2006.
This is the reason why in Pax Roman's website we have opened this new section, called Woman's Vision to present special women's agendas. To start with, you can look into the programme of the Prague meeting and the Memorandum of that event, read the texts of the speeches held and other contributions.
We will continue publishing documents and texts of Pax Roman women's work, and occasionally show photos too. Let's hope that you will find this new section interesting, informative and a useful addition to the other topics.
Annemarie Weinzettl , Vienna
(annemarieweinzettl@hotmail.com)
Symposium on Gender Equality - The Struggle for Gender Equality in Europe - A Story of Success and Ignorance
organized by Women’s Vision / Pax Romana Europe
This symposium has been initiated and finally organized by an international European group of women who felt that although the topic of Gender Equality has been on the agenda of individual European governments and EU presidencies for some time, and has been mentioned in various political and even ecclesiastical papers, nothing of real importance has happened by and large. Therefore Women’s Vision / Pax Romana Europe decided to invite men and women, who share their concern, to discuss gender topics together with experts.
The History Of A Transgression
In all times women are existed that they broke the social models of his age. According to their status social was considered eccentric or directly marginalized, when not burned in one bonfire. For more of a century, the called movements femininities and others not so radical but not for that reason less innovators, removed foundations of a building solidly constructed through the centuries and carefully kept by states, religions and factual powers. A truth it was in the open and it crossed the planet: the woman has her own dignity and its right to be she herself in equality with the rest of the human beings. The majority received the announcement like a liberating breeze, others like a virus that it put in serious danger the stability of the society and family.
Mother, teacher, nurse. The role of women in society and church according to Hungarian-speaking young Catholics in Romania
Bodó Márta
Introduction
Before beginning to present the research on the role of women, I consider it highly important to show some basic data about Romania, data that are important in shaping the spiritual portret, but also the daily routine and political discourse in the country, data that are not known, not fully understood by many people living in Western Europe.
The situation of the Czech catholic church 15 years after the “velvet revolution”
PhDr. Markéta Koronthályová
After 40 years of communist totalitarian system, which ended in 1989 by so called “velvet revolution“, had the churches in our country, Czechoslovak Republic,a very high credit, many people trusted to them.
In the time of this totalitarian system was life in paradox some way more simply, it was black and white. And all the churches have stood common in one line, in the opposite against communists. They were something like a sign of the resistance.
The so-called modern western woman and her responsibility for the women with other cultural and social backgrounds in Europe
(Vortragsvorbereitung für Pax-ROMANA-Frauenkongress in Prag) Gina Garagouni-Scheerbarth / Greece
I want to begin with thinking of some facts we western women have to thank for their present right of-freedom to develop our own personality. First there was the French revolution in 1789-1795 with its ideas of freedom, fraternity and egalitarianism. Secondly we have to think at the many brave women, who lived a life that gained the acknowledgement of all their contemporaries, like the English nurse Florence Nightingale who helped so mach to improve the fate of war-wounded men. Thirdly we must give thanks too, to the women of the feministic movements, who may have exaggerated sometimes in trying to achieve their goal of equal rights with men, but they helped us women of to-day, who can take now equal rights as granted. Fourthly after the terrible events of the second world war of the last century we Germans but with us many other Europeans, too, tried to cut with our traditions and to seek for new ways to make life more peaceful, more just and more happy. And last but not least there is the humanistic psychology with its cornerstone- theory that we all have a drive toward self-actualization‘. Together with the new ‘religion‘ of the esoterism, which allows us to believe that listening to the GOD of o hearts‘ we human beings can decide by our own conscience what is right and what is wrong, this new humanistic psychology assures us the right of personal happiness. Certainly in all our human history mankind fought for happiness, but now we Europeans take it as granted that it is our right to have a secure and satisfying life.
Albanian woman in Europe, her problems and challenges
Elvira Daberdaku
First of all I would like to express my deepest pleasure and emotions being here, in front of such an honored audience. I had the courage to assume myself and to comment upon one of the most sensible social issue, that of the woman’s position in the period of democracy, in a time when my country is still fragile, considering the aspect of democracy.
Women in Europe: the new challenges
By Eulalia Pascual Lagunas
Grup de Juristes Roda Ventura/Pax Romana Catalonia(Spain)
Introduction
Dear friends, first of all I want to pray for your kindness. I have written my conference in English because I think this is the language that the majority of you understand. Nevertheless I´m not so fluent in English as I am in French or Spanish so I ask your benevolence on the fact that I am going to read my conference and that perhaps I am a bit slow or my pronunciation is not perfect.
First Women’s Meeting in Prague
January 20th to January 22nd, 2006
The response to the invitation was really pleasing, and it was a great joy to finally welcome the representatives of nine European countries to the first assembly initiated and organized by Pax Romana women on topics highly relevant for Christian females. In the opening session we agreed to follow the guidelines of the proposal programme, and so we bravely covered the extensive agenda and experienced a very compact, informative, important and interesting weekend in Prague.
ELC meeting on in January
Dear Pax Romana Women Friends in Europe,
In the first attachment I announced that there will be an ELC meeting on in January next year. Since this seems a good opportunity to meet then as well, I would like to inform you now about the place and the costs per day, full board.
European women’s symposium
Dear Pax Romana Women Friends in Europe,
Since the International Assembly in Warsaw and Krakov, more than a year has passed. Let me refer to some women talk among a few European participants there, such as new ways of stressing “women topics” as a prior agenda of our future work in Pax Romana, or exchanging ideas by active communication, and finally, arranging a women’s meeting in Tirana.
