Redazione

INGHILTERRA

Dopo il successo di “The monastery”, “The Convent” e “The big silence”, tutti programmi dedicati alla vita nei conventi, la Bbc ha mandato in onda, il 25 ottobre sul suo primo canale, “Young Nuns”, un documentario dove due giovani donne stanno considerando di diventare suore. Clara, 23 anni, si è appena laureata, ma sta pensando […]

CHIESE IN BREVE

Italia: i vescovi e l’agricoltura”Solo con Dio c’è futuro nelle nostre campagne!”: è il titolo del messaggio per la Giornata del ringraziamento che verrà celebrata il 13 novembre, diffuso il 18 ottobre dalla Commissione episcopale per i problemi sociali e il lavoro, la giustizia e la pace. La giornata – si legge nel messaggio – […]

EDITORIAL

All across Europe a terrible fear has arisen over the past few months: Is once-bright dream of the EU becoming a nightmare?The Eurozone crisis is economic in nature. Yet its effects go far beyond the economic sphere. All across Europe, people have lost trust in the European project. It is now often seen as undemocratic […]

comece

Financial crisis and European integration, EU-Church dialogue, transparent procedures, human embryo: these items were tackled yesterday by Msgr. Adrianus van Luyn, bishop of Rotterdam and President of COMECE (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community), who inaugurated in Brussels the works of the Autumn Plenary Assembly: “The Financial Crisis and the future of […]

EU PARLIAMENT

The EU 2012 budget, security, public procurement, preparations for the G20 summit: these are some of the themes addressed during the plenary meeting at the European Parliament in Strasbourg October 24-27. MEPs adopted the directive to combat child abusers and child pornography as well as a motion demanding no more violence against Christians in Egypt […]

interfaith dialogue

Religions, path for peace. The commitment to peace, 25 years after the interfaith meeting promoted by John Paul II on 27 October, was reaffirmed at Assisi yesterday, in the day of reflection, dialogue and prayer for peace and justice in the world called by Benedict XVI. The event was held in the birthplace of Saint […]

EUROPEAN UNION

Political agreements, figures, handshakes: the Euro crisis summit of October 26, called to address the urgent question of sovereign debt, provide stability to the euro currency and secure the community integration process, appears to have delivered expected results. Now the agreements ratified by EU 27 heads of government or state will need to be followed […]

review of ideas

“With a bit of political courage, the crisis of the single currency could give rise to what many hoped from a common European foreign policy: a consciousness that transcends national frontiers and shares a common European destiny”, declares the German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas, in a reflection in the weekly “Die Zeit”, contained in […]

England

After the success of “The monastery”, “The Convent” and “The silence”, all programs on life in the convent, on October 25, BBC broadcast on Channel 1 a documentary that follows the stories of two young women as they prepare to become nuns. Clara is 23. She recently graduated but she’s considering entering the Benedictine convent […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

Italy: the bishops and agriculture”Only with God our countryside has a future!” This is the title of the message for Thanksgiving Day celebrated on November 13. The message was released on October 18 by the Bishops’ Commission for Social Problems, Labor, Justice and Peace. The Day – the bishops write in their message – is […]