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EU

“The EU is more than a common market. It is also a Union of values”. Although the statement is not new, its collocation is highly significant: the “Project Europe 2030” drawn up by an ad hoc commission set up by the EU and submitted to the Heads of Government and State during the recent summit […]

SURVEY OF IDEAS

“The Holy See deplores the raid on Belgium’s Bishops’ Conference”. Cardinal Bertone stigmatized. The episode “is unprecedented – said the Secretary of State – even under communism”. Yesterday, in a letter to Monsignor Léonard, President of the Belgian bishops, with powerful words Benedict XVI expressed his “surprise” for the “deplorable manner” used in the raids […]

BELGIUM

Belgian bishops are “grateful” for the Pope’s “expressions of closeness”, conveyed after the police search of the archbishopric in Brussels. Eric de Beukelaer, spokesperson of the Belgian bishops transmitted the message and said that the Pope’s letter of Sunday June 27 to Msgr. André Joseph Léonard, archbishop of Malines-Bruxelles and president of the Bishops’ Conference, […]

ENGLAND

An encouragement “to remain adherent to the Lord, to discern His will in the path of life, to place trust in the power of the Holy Spirit which gives the courage to say ‘yes’ to God’s Call”: it was made to the young participants in the forthcoming vocational weekend “Invocation 2010” (2-4 July, Oscott, Birmingham), […]

England: card. Newman blessed in Cofton ParkJohn Henry Newman will be beatified by the Pope on September 19 in Cofton Park, Rednal, where the formerly Anglican Cardinal, converted to Catholicism, was buried and not at the Coverntry airport as previously announced. For the fathers of the Birmingham Oratory, founded by Newman himself, which released the […]

Croatia: the Crucifix, “catalyst of dialogue” While Strasbourg discusses the review of the sentence of the European Court for Human Rights on the crucifix, also Croatian Bishops address the issue. “The presence of Christian religious symbols, of the cross in particular, which reflects the religious sentiments of Christians from all denominations – the prelates declare […]

CRUCIFIX

The Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK – an organization that represents the active laity in the Catholic Church in Germany, in its dioceses and in the 120 associations present in the territory), the Semaines Sociales de France (SSF), the Italian Christian Workers Associations (ACLI) and a further three Catholic lay organizations in Poland, Croatia […]

CRUCIFIX

A solemn and composed atmosphere, the panel of judges aligned behind a long hemispherical desk; facing them the lawyers of the two sides in the dispute and a restricted number of seats in the courtroom for the public and for journalists. So a new stage of the legal battle on the display of the crucifix […]

FRONT PAGE

Fresh light was shed on the question of the display of the crucifix in Italian public schools during the audience held at the Grande Chambre of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on 30 June. The protagonists of the heated debate were the lawyers defending either side in the dispute: on the one […]

CARCERI

"Custodi e accompagnatori", che cercano "di curare le ferite, in vite segnate da eventi tremendi". Così mons. Benedetto Tuzia, vescovo ausiliare di Roma, ha definito gli agenti di polizia penitenziaria, durante l’omelia della messa celebrata il 30 giugno nella chiesa di San Francesco di Sales, in occasione della festa di San Basilide martire, loro patrono. […]