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CHIESE IN BREVE

Italia: prolusione del card. BagnascoTsunami e disastro nucleare in Giappone, crisi della Libia, arrivo di immigrati nel sud Italia, persecuzione dei cristiani in varie nazioni, celebrazione del 150° dell’Unità del Paese, difesa della vita e della famiglia: sono stati questi i principali argomenti trattati nella prolusione del presidente della Cei, card. Angelo Bagnasco, ai lavori […]

CHIESA IN EUROPA

Il card. Reinhard Marx dal novembre 2007 è arcivescovo di Monaco e Freising, dove papa Ratzinger fu arcivescovo tra il 1977 e il 1982 e dove vivono oggi 1 milione e 800 mila battezzati su una popolazione di 3,4 milioni di abitanti. Il più giovane dell’attuale collegio cardinalizio, esperto di dottrina sociale della Chiesa, nel […]

EDITORIAL

Portugal seems the next in line on the sovereign debt crisis of the euro zone. After Greece and Ireland it could, if not checked, proceed after Portugal towards Spain, Italy, France. The financial markets seem bent on doubt about the euro process.The case of Portugal is significantly different from the two standing victims of the […]

UKRAINE

“We are an Oriental, Synodal and Catholic Church”, and “today we have come to the Holy Father to manifest our ecclesial nature” and “confirm our full, visible and real communion with the Successor of Peter”, declared Mgr. Sviatoslav Schevchuk, newly elected Archbishop Major of Kyiv-Halyc of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC). The archbishop met journalists […]

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Europe seems to acknowledge it and is envisaging a real and true revolution aimed at “increasing mobility” while “reducing emissions”. It is proposals of the EU Commission that launched the “2050 Strategy” for a “long-term competitive transport system that will increase mobility, remove major barriers in key areas and fuel growth and employment”. To achieve […]

Eurobarometer (1): are car users environment-friendly?The majority of those surveyed by Eurobarometer said they would be “willing to pay more for their car if it helped to reduce emissions”. It is one of the most unexpected findings of a survey conducted by the EU Statistical Office in across Member States. According to the final report, […]

francE

“Secularism is one of the pillars of our Republican deal, one of the bases of our democracy, a founding element of our yearning for coexistence. Let’s not dissipate this precious conquest”. Thus begins the lengthy statement released by the Conference of French Religious Leaders, underlining their stand in the framework of the debate on secularism. […]

chURCHES IN BRIEF

Germany: the new Catechism for young peopleMay “YouCat” be “the heart of a new evangelization”, augured Cardinal Lehmann on 29 March, upon the presentation of the Catechism for young people in Magonza. “Christian faith is explained in a language that is appropriate to the young”, the Cardinal said, underlining that the new Catechism will contribute […]

chURCHES IN BRIEF

Italy: the prolusion of card. BagnascoTsunami and the nuclear disaster in Japan, the Libyan crisis, the arrival of immigrants in Southern Italy, Christians’ persecution in world countries, the celebrations for the Country’s 150th anniversary, the defense of life and of the family. These were the main topics addressed in the prolusion of CEI President Cardinal […]

CHURCH IN EUROPE

Since November 2007 Cardinal Reinhard Marx has been Archbishop of Munich and Freising, where Josef Ratzinger was archbishop between 1977 and 1982 and where 1,800,000 baptized out of a population of 3.4 million inhabitants live. The youngest of the current College of Cardinals, an expert on the social doctrine of the Church, he published a […]