Redazione

Italia: poca “cura delle generazioni””Oggi nelle zone più avanzate del pianeta, in particolare in Europa, è venuta meno quella che gli studiosi chiamano la cura tra le generazioni”. È l’analisi del card. Angelo Bagnasco, presidente della Cei, secondo il quale tale cura si è “allentata, col rischio di interrompersi”. All’origine di questo processo – ha […]

PRIMA PAGINA

La lotta contro la povertà “è un imperativo politico di primo ordine in questo decennio appena cominciato” e deve costituire “un pilastro fondamentale di qualsiasi politica di sviluppo e di coesione sociale” a livello europeo. José Manuel Barroso, presidente della Commissione Ue, non ha risparmiato promesse impegnative durante il discorso pronunciato il 21 gennaio a […]

EU PARLIAMENT

Rights that are being violated across the globe, human trafficking, protecting religious minorities. The plenary meeting of the European Parliament held January 18-21 in Strasbourg, addressed a number of problematic situations which call the EU into question as a player on the international scenario. Protecting the freedom of religion. MEPs addressed data released by Europol […]

EU

A renewed attention to the family, basic nucleus of society, cradle of interpersonal relations, and first “social shock absorber”: in the initiatives linked to 2010 as European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, a new sensibility seems to be emerging at the European level.A “political imperative” for Barroso. “Too often it is the most […]

ECUMENISM

Serbia: the new patriarch Irinej of NisOn January 22 the Holy Synod elected 80-year-old bishop Irinej of Nis to the rank of new Patriarch of Serbia’s Orthodox Church, the 45th successor of Saint Sava. The bishop was elected by lot out of three candidates indicated by the Serbian bishops. The bishops drew lots in the […]

CCEE

In the presence of the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, and the Apostolic Nuncio Monsignor Luigi Ventura, the presentation of “The Bishops and the New Europe. Official texts of the CCEE (1992-2006)” took place at the Institut Catholique in Paris on the evening of Thursday 21 January. The book is published by the French […]

Germany: “Christian faith, a source for the future””We cannot understand Christianity as a treasure of the past. Christian thought is a fruitful force of the future”. Msgr. Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich and Freising, called for a new mindset across society. Msgr. Marx presided over the ceremony for the opening of the New Year held […]

Italy: a poor “cross-generation care””Today in the most advanced areas of the planet, Europe in particular, there is a want of what scholars describe as cross-generation care”, claimed CEI President Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, according to whom such care has “waned, and risks dying out”. This process – remarked His Eminence in the prolusion to the […]

FRONT PAGE

Combating poverty “is a paramount political imperative in the decennial that has just begun” and it must represent “the fundamental pillar of development and social cohesion policies” at European level. José Manuel Barroso, EU Commission president, addressed the issue in his opening speech for the inauguration of 2010 – European Year for Combating Poverty and […]

FUNERALI FAVARA

Una chiesa gremita di giovani e gente comune, un migliaio di persone che, nonostante il maltempo, ha seguito la celebrazione dall’esterno, con l’ausilio di altoparlanti. E poi palloncini, fiori bianchi e messaggi di cordoglio. Ma soprattutto preghiera e riflessione. Così Favara ha salutato il 26 gennaio Marianna e Chiara, le sorelline di 14 e 3 […]