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FRANCIA

Da una regione storica della Francia centrale, ricca di storia cristiana e di natura, un’associazione cattolica lancia l’invito ai giovani europei a vivere nell’estate 2012 un’esperienza spirituale e culturale lungo un tratto del cammino che storicamente portava i francesi verso Santiago. In un’intervista a SIR Europa Stefan Lunte, membro dell’associazione “Gli amici di Saint Jacques […]

CHIESE IN BREVE

Italia: nuova responsabilità per l’Europa”Il momento di difficoltà che attraversa l’Europa sollecita una nuova assunzione di responsabilità e un rinnovato impegno comune da parte dei popoli e delle istituzioni”. Ma non basta: affinché il suo “processo di unificazione sia veramente fecondo” occorre che l’Europa “riconosca le proprie radici cristiane”. Così il card. Angelo Bagnasco, arcivescovo […]

editorial

In the course of the European summits held over the past months, tasked with addressing the debt crisis of Euro area countries, the German Chancellor and the French President emphatically took the lead. This behaviour has been criticised from the viewpoint of the Community, which constitutes the foundation of European Union cohesion. Some have spoken […]

AUSTRIA

“The renewal of the Church was the major objective of the Second Vatican Council, that we are bound to for today and for the future”: this is the key message of the Austrian bishops gathered in the Autumn Plenary Assembly held in Salzburg November 7-10. The election of the parish council, the role of education […]

SINGLE CURRENCY AND EU

Many analysts say that the economic crisis, apart from being a huge problem, with painful and real repercussions, also represents “an opportunity”. It’s not clear, perhaps, what opportunities might be opened up by billions of euro going up in smoke, companies going bust, thousands of jobs being lost. And yet the recession that still has […]

Commission, work program for 2012″Delivering European renewal” is the title of the 2012 Work Program of the Commission, adopted on November 15, whose purpose is to translate the political priorities identified by President Barroso in the State of the Union address into concrete actions for the next year. The program underlines that in the coming […]

EUROPEAN VOLUNTEERING

The function of volunteers “is to take an active part in the life of society, seeking to make it ever more humane, ever more marked by authentic freedom, justice and solidarity”, said Benedict XVI in the audience with the participants in the recent meeting for Vatican European Catholic Volunteers, promoted by the EU, organized by […]

THE CHURCH AND EUROPE (13)

SIR Europe’s specials on the reflection of European Bishops on the European integration process and Church thought on the common European home (Cf SIR Europe 62-63-64-65-66-67-69-71-75-76/2011) continue with the interview to Msgr. William Kenney, Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham.What are British Catholics’ opinions and expectations regarding the EU? “I believe that the EU is not an […]

France

From a historical region of Central France, steeped in Christian history and in nature, a Catholic association calls young Europeans to live a spiritual and cultural experience in summer 2012, along part of the trail that traditionally took French people to Santiago. In an interview with SIR Europe, Stefan Lunte, member of the association “Friends […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

Italy: new responsibility for Europe”The difficult time that Europe is experiencing calls the populations and institutions to assume new responsibilities and make more efforts”. But that is not enough: if its “unification process wants to be really fruitful”, then Europe “needs to acknowledge its own Christian roots”. So said Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa […]