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To the values and principles in political life, Valcárcel invokes the need to keep believing in them, and "root out misconduct and bad examples"

The regional president invites the Pope to visit the region to celebrate the Jubilee Year in Caravaca de la Cruz

The President of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, said today that it has "absolutely convinced that only from an ethical and moral people can promote social change in the service of society."

The chief executive was speaking Murcia in the opening ceremony of the course of the Universidad Católica San Antonio (UCAM), which this year was attended by former Prime Minister José María Aznar, who delivered the inaugural lecture 'The values in the current political life. "

After his speech, President Valcarcel said the "valuable insights" Aznar in these times of "economic and social uncertainty" and stressed that this is a changing world, in a society in crisis, not only economic and financial, "but basically stock, so it is imperative to emphasize the defense of the inalienable value of human rights, human rights. "

However, he said, "The problem today the implementation of human rights is the reduction of ethical issues to political issues, and here is the basic error, the conditional rights inalienable, universal, interdependent and necessary innate , the political expediency of the moment. "

"This nihilism regarding the values, so fashionable, is being, unfortunately, to spread bad practice in public life and in politics and make the irresponsibility, lack of commitment, lack of ethics and also lies, a situation that threatens to undermine the foundations of our existence and, sometimes, to doubt the citizens of the benefits of our system of freedoms and rights, "he added.

As he said, "we must not doubt, but whether to uproot misconduct and bad examples, hence the need to firmly believe in principles and values."

Valcárcel invites Pope to visit the Region

The president of the Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, invited His Holiness Benedict XVI to visit the Region of Murcia on the occasion of the Jubilee Year of Caravaca de la Cruz.

In the opening ceremony of the course of the San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia, President Valcárcel advantage of the presence of Monsignor Cañizares, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, asking him to convey directly to the Holy Father " desire and hope of all to visit the Murcia Region of Murcia during the Jubilee Year in Caravaca de la Cruz, in 2010. "

The Chief Executive recalled that the Pope visited the region as Cardinal Ratzinger, before his election, and "for Murcia would be pleased to welcome back our land as Holy Father of the Church, whose blessed hope."

Benedict XVI, as Cardinal Ratzinger, was able to meet the Region during his visit in December 2002 when the town of Caravaca is preparing to begin the Holy Year 2003.

In addition, a few weeks ago in Rome, His Holiness received the appointment of local foster child.

Education, a tool for structuring European

Referring to the new European framework of higher education, Valcarcel said that "education is an instrument of social cohesion for the backbone of Europe, as has been the euro and the abolition of frontiers."

In this context, it is very important, "he said, maintaining the commitment to quality, excellence and competitiveness of public and private universities," as strength in the field of knowledge society and globalization. "

To which he reiterated "the need" to maintain "a close institutional cooperation between universities and governments."

Valcárcel recalled that in adapting to the Bologna Process has made a great effort by the regional government, not just budget, in the case of public universities, but also in the legal-normative.

San Antonio Catholic University in the process of adaptation to the European Higher, the president said, highlights "as a modern center that focuses on quality, as demonstrated by their extraordinary training activities through their own chairs."

But also, he said, remains a valuable commitment to education in values, by training its students in areas such as the "apostolate and solidarity."

Source: CARM