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IRLANDA

“Un’opera di aiuto fraterno” che “la Santa Sede intende offrire ai Vescovi, al clero, ai religiosi e ai fedeli laici per affrontare adeguatamente la situazione determinata dalle tragiche vicende degli abusi compiuti da sacerdoti e religiosi nei riguardi dei minori e per contribuire al rinnovamento spirituale e morale desiderato e già avviato con decisione dalla […]

Germania: su mons. Zollitsch “accuse infondate””L’accusa attuale circa un comportamento condannabile del dott. Robert Zollitsch in riferimento al monastero Birnau è priva di fondamento”. Così la diocesi tedesca di Freiburg (Friburgo), in una nota diffusa dalla Sala Stampa della Santa Sede, ribadisce l’infondatezza delle accuse mosse contro l’arcivescovo Robert Zollitsch, presidente della Conferenza episcopale tedesca. […]

PRIMA PAGINA

A seguito della firma del Trattato di Lisbona nel 2007, il presidente Barroso sperava che l’impasse istituzionale fosse giunta alla fine: si sarebbe aperta la strada per consentire all’Unione europea di affrontare ciò a cui “la gente d’Europa è veramente interessata”: questioni come il cambiamento climatico, l’emigrazione, la globalizzazione, la crescita economica e la difesa […]

REVIEW OF IDEAS

The twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall was solemnly celebrated on 9 November 2009. The fall of the Wall marked a “peaceful revolution”, to which the Christian Churches made a decisive, but often little recognized contribution. The “paradox” of a State “of widespread cultural and practical atheism” involved “in a revolution in […]

EU: AGAINST THE CRISIS

“To contribute to laying the foundations for the Europe of the future, helping it to become rooted among the people, providing supplementary monitoring of the specific issues of subsidiarity and proportionality and driving forward major European policies”. These are the tasks identified by José Luis Zapatero, Spanish premier and EU President-in-office, for the parliaments of […]

EU PARLIAMENT

“With the Lisbon Treaty a new inter-institutional balance is being created within the European Union”, whereby “national parliaments’ responsibilities in the formation of EU legislation have been strengthened”: Edward McMillan Scott, Vice-President of the European Parliament, is a veteran in Brussels and Strasbourg. He has served uninterruptedly as MEP since 1984, first with the Conservative […]

CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

Holy See: “joy” for the meeting between the Patriarchs Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I’s visit to Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow and to the Russian Orthodox Church is “an expression of the communion between the two Orthodox Churches” and therefore also for the Catholic Church “it is a reason for utmost joy”. Msgr. Eleuterio Fortino, member of […]

SPAIN

On May 27-30 the 10th National Eucharistic Congress took place in Spain, Toledo. The motto was taken from Psalm 43,4: “Then I will go to the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy:” The Congress ought to be inscribed within the 2006-2010 pastoral plan of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference, whose main objectives were “to […]

IRELAND

“A fraternal assistance” which “the Holy See intends to offer to the Bishops, clergy, religious and lay faithful as they seek to respond adequately to the situation caused by the tragic cases of abuse perpetrated by priests and religious upon minors. It is also intended to contribute to the desired spiritual and moral renewal that […]

Germany: allegations against Msgr. Zollitsch “without foundation””The accusations of criminal behaviour by Dr Robert Zollitsch in connection with the Birnau Monastery are without foundation”. In a statement released by the Press Office of the Holy See the German diocese of Freiburg reiterates that accusations against archbishop Robert Zollitsch, President of the German Bishops’ Conference are […]