“De rol van de kerken / Antisemieten op oorlogspad of echte grieven?” Gisteravond heeft Frans Hoppenbrouwers in Vlaardingen een lezing gegeven over de rol van de kerken in het huidige politieke conflict in Oekraïne. De samenvatting hiervan vindt u hier.
On Monday 13 January 2014 the Foundation Communicantes moved to its new address at Gasthuisring 54a in Tilburg. Visit our contact page for the exact information. We are at home at the convent of the Brothers CMM, a Dutch missionary congregation. There, we share a wing of the convent with the Missionary Service Centre Tilburg (MST) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Dear Friend of Communicantes,
Thinking about moving from one place to another and about how to send our friends and partners a meaningful change of address, I remembered a recent news article. It mentioned the Italian Roman Catholic priest, angelologist and demonologist Renzo Lavatori, who claims that angels are ‘shards of light’ rather than winged entities with human features. Continue reading
Communicantes is going to move from Nijmegen to Tilburg. Yesterday, we have been packing up books at our Nijmegen office. On the shelves, we found several articles by the Dominican Father Professor Magister G.P. Kreling (1888-1973). Communicantes’ founder, Father Jan Bakker s.s.s. (1914-1982), was a student and great admirer of the famous Kreling, who in turn was a great admirer and advocate of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Continue reading
So, Frans Hoppenbrouwers of the foundation Communicantes recently visited the 17th Renovabis conference Free and Solidary. Christians in Responsibility for Europe in Freising, Germany (28/30 September 2013). It was an interesting gathering, meeting old acquaintances and making new friends… ‘Music to my ears’, as such he described the remarks of Renovabis’ general manager Father Stefan Dartmann SJ at the end of the conference. They underlined Communicantes’ plan to put dialogue between Christians in Europe at the heart of its activities. Continue reading
Last Sunday, Frans Hoppenbrouwers of the foundation Communicantes returned from Lviv (Ukraine), where he had been discussing our plan to promote discussion and dialogue among believers in Europe (East and West). Then tomorrow, Wednesday 19 June, he will be off to Cluj-Napoca in Romania, where he will stay for several days. Hungary is next on the list. Monday 24 June Hoppenbrouwers will be in Budapest, Thursday in Szeged and then he will return to the Netherlands. It will be interesting to know the opinion of our partners about our plans and to compare these very different countries with one and another. Then it is time for some well-deserved holiday time.
Dear Friend of Communicantes,
Please have a look at our Annual Report 2012 in English: read in pdf.
For copies of previous annual reports (2005-2011) in Dutch language, follow this link.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Benno Jacob, Katharina Staritz and Edith Stein, what is the legacy of these four theologians for us? This was a central question during a discussion at the Edith Stein House in Wroclaw. About twenty participants discussed on 13 December 2012 about how the Lutheran Bonhoeffer, the Jew Jacob, the evangelical Staritz and Catholic Stein looked at culture. How did these thinkers, who were all born in Wroclaw (Breslau), view the relationship between culture, society, civilization and religion? Continue reading
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Benno Jacob, Katharina Staritz en Edith Stein, wat is de boodschap van deze vier theologen voor de 21ste eeuw? Deze vraag stond centraal tijdens een gespreksavond in het Edith Stein Huis in Wroclaw. Ongeveer twintig deelnemers bespraken op 13 december 2012 de cultuurvisie van de lutheraan Bonhoeffer, de jood Jacob, de evangelische Staritz en de katholiek Stein. Hoe zagen deze in Wroclaw geboren denkers de relatie tussen cultuur, maatschappij, beschaving en religie? Continue reading
The board of the foundation Communicantes wishes you a merry Christmas and a blessed New Year. Leave the bad news for what it is. Let the good message be heard, because, if heaven is out of view, our earthly wishes, regrets, art and work lose their meaning. Please, read the Communicantes Christmas Newsletter to know a bit more about our activities in 2012 and outlook on 2013:
Communicantes Newsletter 2012/2 Christmas (English)
Communicantes Nieuwsbrief 2012/2 Kerstmis (Dutch)
