Redazione

COMECE

La parità e la non-discriminazione sono idee “ambigue” in quanto “sono costruite attorno ad una moltitudine di definizioni e concetti che possono avere diversi significati”. Ovviamente la legislazione dell’Unione europea non può essere “un forum che provvede a dare risposte esaustive a tutte le questioni sollevate dalla filosofia, teologia e legge”. Tuttavia devono essere assunti […]

PRIMA PAGINA

Si riaccende in tempo di crisi economica e politica il dibattito sul federalismo. Due i fronti, quello nazionale e quello comunitario.Paesi come Italia, Spagna, Grecia, Cipro (ma anche l’Est europeo e la Scandinavia) discutono in questo periodo nelle aule parlamentari e nei talk show televisivi una serie di riforme fondamentali degli ordinamenti interni: federalismo fiscale, […]

Commission: protecting children’s rights”In today’s world children and adolescents often find themselves in difficult situations, whether it be in using the internet, in living as migrants, or having to testify in court. It is therefore our duty to protect and promote their rights”, said Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship in […]

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

It was a challenging week: first the plenary session in Strasbourg (14-17 June), then the intervention of the European Council in Brussels (17 June); then a series of other official meetings, speeches and public events. Jerzy Buzek, former leader of Solidarnosc together with Lech Walesa, then premier in Warsaw, was elected President of the European […]

RACISM IN EUROPE

France, Georgia, Poland and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have undertaken “significant efforts in the struggle against racial discrimination, xenophobia and anti-Semitism”. There remain several questions that constitute “reason for concern”. Nils Muiznieks, President of ECRI (the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance) thus comments on the four national reports issued June 15 which […]

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

In three months’ time – on September 19 – John Henry Newman will be beatified by Benedict XVI during a public Mass in Coventry. The English Catholic Church devoted a section of the website on the papal visit to England to the event (www.thepapalvisit.org.uk). Jack Valero, the press officer for the relations with the media, […]

Ireland: card. O’Connor on Church renewal “The things I remember about my life as a priest are not the successes but rather the failures”. From that experience “I learnt yet again to pray for perseverance and obedience to my vocation”, said Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor Archbishop Emeritus of Westminster and apostolic visitor for the archdiocese of […]

A new cathedral in Kiev”It is the first step of the Greek-Catholic Church towards embracing modern architecture”. Msgr. Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture thus welcomed the news of the establishment of the Resurrection of Christ Patriarchal Cathedral in a new district of Kyiv during his visit to Ukraine. The façade of […]

COMECE

“Religious freedom, Pillar of the Human Rights Policy in the External Relations of the European Union” is the title of the memorandum adopted by the COMECE bishops (the Secretariat of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community). Ensuing the EU Council Resolution (November 16 2009) which reaffirmed the intention “to continue to […]

COMECE

Equality and non-discrimination are “ambiguous” ideas which are built around a multitude of definitions and concepts and therefore having several possible meanings”. Obviously the EU law is not “a forum which provides comprehensive answers to all questions brought up in philosophy, theology or law”. However, there is an established general principle of “equal treatment”. Namely, […]