Redazione

SPAGNA-EUROPA

“Una Spagna e un’Europa non solo preoccupate delle necessità materiali degli uomini, ma anche di quelle morali e sociali, di quelle spirituali e religiose, perché tutte queste sono esigenze autentiche dell’unico uomo e solo così si opera in modo efficace, integro e fecondo per il suo bene”. È quello che ha auspicato Benedetto XVI nel […]

COMMISSIONE UE

Le attività commerciali, non meno dell’agricoltura e dell’industria, hanno contribuito in passato a fare dell’Europa una potenza economica, ma anche politica, mondiale. Alcuni popoli del vecchio continente mostrano nella loro storia una vera e propria "vocazione" commerciale, come ad esempio gli olandesi. Gli scambi in mercati sempre più vasti sono ritenuti, nell’epoca dell’economia globale, una […]

FRANCIA

La riforma delle pensioni, lo stato del dibattito sociale, la secolarizzazione, la famiglia, il rispetto del riposo domenicale. Sono alcuni dei temi affrontati dai vescovi francesi a Lourdes nell’ambito dell’Assemblea plenaria che si è svolta nel santuario mariano dal 4 al 9 novembre. Nel corso dell’Assemblea, è stato rieletto presidente della Conferenza episcopale, il card. […]

EDITORIALE

Il viaggio del Santo Padre in Spagna, a Santiago di Compostela e a Barcellona, è stato il quinto di quest’anno tenutosi fuori d’Italia in un Paese europeo. Se in tutti gli altri viaggi, in un modo o nell’altro, ha parlato dell’Europa e della missione della Chiesa nel continente, arrivando a Santiago di Compostela, città che […]

Support to small and medium enterprises in China A gateway in Beijing to increase the activity of European enterprises in China was launched on November 5. It is the “Centre for small and medium enterprises of the European Union” funded by the Commission. As explained during its presentation, the new organization will provide “information, advice, […]

ANGLICANS-CATHOLICS

Five Anglican bishops belonging to the more traditionalist Anglican Communion asked to leave the Church of England in order to enter in full communion with the Catholic Church through the new Ordinariate provided for in the Apostolic Constitution “Anglicanorum coetibus” published precisely a year ago, on November 9 2009. The developments that occurred over the […]

EASTERN CHURCHES

“Canon law seeks to erect a bridge between theology and life, between theory and practice in the individual and in the community life of the faithful”, said Cardinal Peter Erdo, archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest and president of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) at the 13th meeting of Europe’s Eastern bishops (CGOE) that ended in […]

SPAIN-EUROPE

“A Spain and a Europe concerned not only with people’s material needs but also with their moral and social, spiritual and religious needs, since all these are genuine requirements of our common humanity and only in this way can work be done effectively, integrally and fruitfully for man’s good”. It is the hope expressed by […]

EU COMMISSION

Commercial activities, no less than agriculture and industry, have contributed in the past to turn Europe into an economic, but also political power at the world level. Some peoples of the old continent show in their history a real commercial "vocation", such as the Dutch. Trade in ever more globalized markets is considered, in the […]

FRANCE

The pensions reform, the state of social debate, secularization, the family, the respect for Sunday rest are among the themes address by the French bishops in Lourdes in the framework of the plenary meeting held in the Marian shrine on November 4 to 9. During the Assembly the cardinal archbishop of Paris was re-elected president […]