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Ecclesiological significations of the martyrdom in the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic, during communism. This article is intended to analyze the martyrdom of the Romanian United Church to present its ecclesiological significations relevant not only for its own local ecclesiological reality but for the whole Catholic Church. The reflection we propose shall follow the theological implications of three aspects identifiable in the situation of the Romanian United Church during the communist persecution: the relationship between martyrdom, Eucharist and the Kingdom of God; the martyrdom of the entire Greek – Catholic synod of Bishops in Romania; the attempt to annihilate an entire local church of the Catholic Church. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The digital land brings a new subject to debate about the most appropriate framework to guide religion expression in online settings to promote the Church tradition mission and to build a spiritual identity in a world of crisis. In the last months, there were many voices telling that Orthodox Church in Romania has a communication problem. In order to understand the process of communication of the Church in the digital era, we need to underlie this process in the psychology and sociology of communication theories. Therefore, our analysis is an attempt to better understand the challenges derived from the communication of religious subject in a context saturated by media influence over social iconology of the Church and over spiritual communion and identity. We discuss different perspectives on framing information, on the relation between the Church mission as public communicator and media agenda. Finally, we identify some positive aspects of re-thinking communication process in order to increase the Church capacity of building a powerful strategy for social messages and educating communities in the culture of Truth. Moreover, the success of moral communication means opening a dynamic pastoral program incorporating psycho-sociological aspects of communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While the recognition of emotional expressions has been extensively studied, the behavioural response to these expressions has not. In the interpersonal circumplex, behaviour is defined in terms of communion and agency. In this study, we examined behavioural responses to both facial and postural expressions of emotion. We presented 101 Romanian students with facial and postural stimuli involving individuals ('targets') expressing happiness, sadness, anger, or fear. Using an interpersonal grid, participants simultaneously indicated how communal (i.e., quarrelsome or agreeable) and agentic (i.e., dominant or submissive) they would be towards people displaying these expressions. Participants were agreeable-dominant towards targets showing happy facial expressions and primarily quarrelsome towards targets with angry or fearful facial expressions. Responses to targets showing sad facial expressions were neutral on both dimensions of interpersonal behaviour. Postural versus facial expressions of happiness and anger elicited similar behavioural responses. Participants responded in a quarrelsome-submissive way to fearful postural expressions and in an agreeable way to sad postural expressions. Behavioural responses to the various facial expressions were largely comparable to those previously observed in Dutch students. Observed differences may be explained from participants' cultural background. Responses to the postural expressions largely matched responses to the facial expressions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article focuses on demonstrating the importance of living in communion and intense communication with the people around us, however or whoever they may be, the importance of accepting the other, under the circumstances in which today's European society is up against a deep economic, political and identity crisis, as well as a crisis of religious values. The European Union promotes the spirit of tolerance and the idea of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue represents the essential modality of preventing conflicts. At the end of the article, it is shown that Romanian cultural personalities of modern times have been in favour of alterity, multilinguism and multiculturalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]