Redazione

Green Week: environment and biodiversity The tenth European Green Week will be held in the Charlemagne building in Brussels from 1st to 4 June. This is an annual four-day conference that focuses attention on the main environmental questions faced by the continent and by the planet. The specific issue to be addressed by Green Week […]

EUROPEAN COUNCIL

Europe 2020, Europe 2030: in times of economic crisis and interconnected difficulties in the political and social areas, the EU seeks to interpret the upcoming challenges and provide concrete responses. In this framework lie the initiatives under way. On May 21 the “special task force” on recession held its meeting that will conclude with a […]

CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

Orthodox: the visit of patriarch Bartholomew to Moscow Received with full honours by the members of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church and by civil authorities, the ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I arrived in Moscow on May 22 for a ten-day visit to Russia on the invitation of the Patriarch of Moscow […]

GREECE

“Over the past ten years Catholic faithful in Greece increased by 700%: from 50thousand to 350thousand. The reason is to be found in immigration waves following the fall of Communism in Poland, Romania and Albania, in Greece’s EU adhesion, in Middle-Eastern political turmoil (involving Lebanese and Iraqis) and in our government’s flexibility in issuing residence […]

Portugal: after the Pope’s visitThe bishops acknowledge the mobilization of Portugal’s population that with warmth embraced the Pope in the visit of past May 11-14. “We convey our gratitude to the Portuguese population for their closeness to and affection for the Successor of Peter, for celebrating with him the mysteries of the faith and for […]

Italy: the 61st CEI assemblyA “debated” sentence, received with “incredulity”, as it is the product of a “misunderstood understanding of laicity”. In the opening address (on 24 May) of the 61st Assembly of the Italian Bishops’ Conference Cardinal Bagnasco thus referred to the judgement issued by the European Court for the Rights of Man arguing […]

FRONT PAGE

After the winter, pilgrims return to Tarsus, in the Church-museum of Saint Paul. Despite the decision of Turkish institutions to convert the site into a permanent place of worship, for the moment it remains a verbal commitment. However, the situation is rapidly evolving also thanks to the help of the new Turkish ambassador to the […]

ASSEMBLEA CEI

"Per quanto ci risulta, sono un centinaio i casi di abusi sessuali da parte di sacerdoti rilevati da procedimenti canonici in Italia negli ultimi dieci anni". A fornire il dato è stato mons. Mariano Crociata, segretario generale della Cei, rispondendo alle domande dei giornalisti, durante la prima conferenza stampa della 61ª assemblea generale dei vescovi, […]

ASSEMBLEA CEI

C’è l’idea e l’appello ad una "Italia contenta di sé", nel vivo della prolusione con cui il cardinale Angelo Bagnasco ha aperto l’assemblea della Cei. C’è l’invito, ma al tempo stesso l’esigenza, a "decidere di volersi reciprocamente più bene". È uno dei tratti del suo modo di comunicare con il Paese e con la gente, […]

CARD. ANGELO BAGNASCO

"Veniamo da una stagione particolarmente carica di sofferenza". Così il card. Angelo Bagnasco, presidente della Cei, ha ricordato ai vescovi italiani gli ultimi mesi, fortemente segnati dal dramma della pedofilia. Tuttavia, non è lecito cedere al pessimismo: i peccati di alcuni né sminuiscono, né mettono in crisi la missione evangelizzatrice e santificante della Chiesa. Se […]