The cross roads

The world is changing.

Or at the very least, it looks like it"s changing.

The change occurs in its material foundations, as illustrated by the news about the increasingly difficult, hurried and controversial actions to solve the financial world crisis, a crisis which is deepening by the day.

But the change of the world is especially discernable in its different meaning, for which we have obvious signs from the interventions of the Christian Churches, on the very worldly subject of the financial crisis, even though some signs that hint to that change, also come from the laity strata of the world.

I do not think that we are mistaken, when saying that we are at a "CROSSROADS" - the headline of this page - , through which "BURSA" is trying to warn, for the second time this month, that the "world is changing", that we are on a threshold, beyond which lies a different world, when it comes to its material standards, as well as those of the spirit and to the interpretation of what we are as humans.

It is a privilege for those of us living today, to catch a glimpse of such a world.

If the world really is changing, it would be a shame to ignore the privilege and not to observe the entire scope of the change, going into the new age, but missing out on it.

This would mean that we would miss all the rewards of the convulsions we would go through.

The pondering that the Catholic and Orthodox Churches call upon us to do right now, is something which always occurs when people are faced with the unknown; meaning that the Encyclical of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, "To the people" (at the end of last year) and the Note of the Pontiff Council for Justice and Peace (at the end of last month) are reactions of the institutions which are the most finely attuned to the fate of man, hinting that the seeds of an