Redazione

Nuovi santi e beati

Otto dalla Spagna, quattro dall’Italia, uno dalla Germania, una dal Portogallo: sono queste – oltre a Libano (uno) e Brasile (una) – le nazioni di provenienza dei prossimi santi (1), beati (11) e venerabili (4). Ricevendo in udienza il card. Angelo Amato, prefetto della Congregazione delle cause dei santi, Benedetto XVI ha autorizzato il 10 […]

CHIESE IN BREVE

Ucraina: il card. Husar richiama all’unità”Il principale compito per tutti noi, cattolici, ortodossi e protestanti, è risvegliare il desiderio di unità, ma temo che il desiderio di raggiungere la vera unità sia troppo debole”, altrimenti “la avremmo già conseguita”. Lo ha affermato nei giorni scorsi il card. Lubomyr Husar, arcivescovo maggiore di Kiev, nel suo […]

EDITORIAL

EU Ministers of Agriculture and Fishing met in Brussels on 13 December. On the order of the day was a preliminary debate on European agricultural policy after 2013. On 18 November, the European Commission had adopted a communication with the title “The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on the horizon of 2020: food, natural resources and […]

EU PARLIAMENT

Zero tolerance: that’s the principle that the European Parliament has now endorsed for every form of violation of human rights, in the EU and in other continents. It has also denounced the “dichotomy” between the commitment to justice and security, on the one hand, and the protection of civil rights and fundamental liberties on the […]

HOMELESS

“Only on a European scale can we hope to find efficient ways to counter a phenomenon which is becoming ever more complex, fragmented and globalised”. With these words Paolo Pezzana, president of the Italian Federation of the bodies for the homeless, conclude the first “Consensus conference” on the homeless people held in Brussels December 9 […]

EUROPEANA

A parchment dating back to 1221 testifies to the history of Bulgarian language; “Catechismusa prasty szadei”, the first book in Lithuanian, published in 1547; 17th century paintings by Dutch painter Jan Steen; all the works of the German authors Goethe and Schiller. These are only some of the many European cultural resources that can be […]

SCIENCE AND FAITH

In which way can “Christ’s historical and cosmic centrality” “meet the needs of the contemporary person? What does Christ have to offer to hyper-demanding reason and to man’s often unfulfilled freedom?” The question was at the centre of the lectio magistralis delivered on December 9 by the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice Angelo Scola, at the […]

ENGLAND AND WALES

The website www.cedar.uk.net is the Catholic Church of England and Wales’ response – the first of the kind – to the problem of domestic abuses. Priests and those in charge in the parish can log on the website for hotline numbers providing information, support and material to raise awareness on the problem within parishes; along […]

NEW SAINTS AND BLESSED

Eight from Spain, four from Italy, one from Germany, one from Portugal: these – along with Lebanon (one) and Brasil (one) – are the native lands of the new saints (1), Blessed (11), and Venerables (4). During a private audience with Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, on […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

Ukraine: card. Husar’s appeal to unity”The main task for all of us, Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants alike is to reawaken a longing for unity, but I’m afraid that the yearning to achieve true unity is too weak”, or “it would have already been achieved”. Thus declared a few days ago the Ukrainian Catholic Major Archbishop […]