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Culture and Religion

The Czech Bishops’ Conference has recently launched a new website dedicated to the phenomenon of “ecclesial tourism” with a specific goal: to step up general interest for ecclesial historic monuments and buildings, as well as pilgrimage sites in the Czech Republic whilst indirectly raising awareness over Church life and mission. “By sharing historical values we […]

Change of course

Northern Europe is simmering over the refugees-emergency, while every day the Balkan and Mediterranean countries have to manage thousands of stranded migrants arriving from Africa and the Middle East. And while the leitmotif from Helsinki to London is “rejections”, Greece and Italy invoke “redistributions”. These are paradoxes of a European Union that is lacking a […]

Dialogue

Hospitality, common sense, deep knowledge of our interlocutor, respect and mutual esteem along with a certain amount of “creativity” and “imagination” that in some cases can help solve problems linked to complex relationships. “Experts” in dialogue with Islam have shared their view on the Capitoline statues obscured by white panels for President Rouhani’s visit. We […]

January 27

“The Shoah teaches us to always maintain the highest level of vigilance, in order to be able to intervene immediately in defense of human dignity and peace. I should like to express my closeness to every witness of the Shoah still living”: these words spoken by Pope Francis a few days ago, at Rome’s main […]

L'Acec e le "sale perdute"

“Era il 1951, l’Italia usciva dalla guerra, a Bologna c’era un’aria frizzante pre-boom, io avevo 13 anni, Lucio otto. Io vidi lui, lui non vide me. Assistevo a uno spettacolino in un teatro parrocchiale e Lucio era la star. Era il bimbo più bello, minuto e proporzionato che avessi mai visto. Portava il frac, il cilindro […]

Besieged Europe

On January 1, the Dutch government took over the six-month Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the European Union. Following the directions conveyed at the EU summit last December, the rotating presidency should ensure the adoption by June of a European regulation to strengthen control of EU’s external borders and, ultimately, the possibility for […]

Pre-electoral debate

“Protection and support of the family cannot be an item of interest only for certain political parties or movements, they should be considered important by all Members of Parliament who have at heart the future of the Slovakian nation”, claims in a statement the Slovakian chapter of the Alliance for the Family (AFF), a large […]

Preliminary partial balance

His last speech on “The State of the Union”, he prided himself of “a more solid” nation, marked by strong economic recovery, with policies against discrimination and against the arms lobby. However, to date, – namely, over the past year (presidential elections are scheduled to take place next November) – Obama’s term in office appears […]

Diplomatic corps

Pope Francis has an extraordinary gift: he is able to identify the signs of the times, thereby making the Word, the strong Word of God, intelligible. It happened on Monday January 11 during the traditional meeting with the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See. Indeed, the tragic events that have scarred our contemporary history […]

Which Holy See

Even in systematic, structured life such as that of Carmelitan monasticism the Jubilee is a true breakthrough and a challenge. The matter at stake is the very foundation of the calling bestowed upon us, implying its embodiment in everyday life. Not only is it a consequential conscience examination, whereby a list of fulfilments and non-fulfilments […]