Redazione

EU COMMISSION

Efficiency tests, removal of cross-border obstacles, full implementation of the EU legislation in force: the Commission intends to accelerate the pace of enlarging the single services market, a sector that now represents almost two thirds of gross domestic product within the EU. After the entry into force of the specific directive on the services sector, […]

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

The environment, energy, foreign affairs, maternity: over the past few days the European Parliament staged various occasions for debate. The conference of February 9 on Low Carbon economy, featuring Charles of England as a keynote speaker, registered the largest number of attendants. It is an environment-friendly theme with strong social and economic implications, as repeatedly […]

NORTH AFRICA

Unrest in North Africa while the Countries in revolt are due to undergo a difficult transition to democracy: we broached the issue with Adnane Mokrani, Muslim theologian, professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University. “Western civil societies can help – he says – they can contribute, and most of all sympathize with these populations that are […]

BIOETHICS

The French bishops have intervened on the case of the baby boy born to parents of Turkish origin at Clamart in France on 26 January. Thanks to guided in-vitro fertilization, and genetic matching, this baby (Ulmit-Talha) will permit doctors to treat his baby brother who suffers from a congenital blood disorder. The whole case came […]

BIOETHICS

A “disrespectful” coincidence that exploits the grief of two parents for political ends and that uses the life of one child to treat that of another: that’s how the French bishops comment on the birth – the first in France – of a child with a genetic code suitable for treating his elder brother affected […]

GERMANY

“The Church in 2011: a Necessary Departure”. It is the title of a memorandum released on February 4th in which 150 theologians from German, Austrian and Swiss university faculties demand general reforms within the Catholic Church. Starting with the scandal of abuse within the Catholic Church, the scholars demand reforms in all sectors of ecclesial […]

POLAND

The canonization of John Paul II raised much joy and enthusiasm in Poland. Millions of Polish pilgrims are preparing their visit to Rome, where they will attend the May 1st ceremony. A distinguished Pole. “Finally we will have a Saint of our times, someone we all knew very well”: Lech Walesa, Peace Nobel Prize recipient, […]

RADIO VATICANA

Una "grande famiglia che non conosce frontiere", nella quale, "nella molteplicità delle culture e delle lingue, tutti sono fratelli e sorelle, e così rappresentano una grande forza per la pace". Il card. Giovanni Lajolo, presidente del Governatorato dello Stato della Città del Vaticano, ha citato queste parole – pronunciate a braccio da Benedetto XVI in […]

BIOETICA

I vescovi francesi sono interventi sulla vicenda del bambino nato il 26 gennaio scorso a Clamart in Francia che, grazie alla fecondazione guidata in vitro, permetterà ai medici di curare un suo fratellino. Il tutto è avvenuto alla vigilia della riapertura in Francia dell’esame del progetto di legge in materia di bioetica. Riportiamo il parere […]

EGITTO

Timore di un nuovo Iraq: è il sentimento con cui gli iracheni guardano alle proteste in corso dal 25 gennaio in Egitto. Non ha dubbi l’arcivescovo di Kirkuk, mons. Louis Sako, quando gli si chiede quale eco stanno avendo le manifestazioni in piazza Tahrir. Sprofondati nella divisione e nell’odio tribale e religioso, colpiti da una […]