Redazione

Diocesi e Anno Ue della lotta alla povertàUn invito a tutte le diocesi europee a compiere “un gesto significativo e simbolico” il 14 febbraio prossimo, o nel corso della stessa settimana, quando il Papa visiterà alcune opere della Caritas di Roma e in occasione della celebrazione dell’Anno che l’Unione europea dedica alla lotta alla povertà […]

Gran Bretagna: chiese aperte per i senza tettoCentinaia di senzatetto cercano rifugio in questi giorni nelle chiese per proteggersi dal rigido clima invernale che ha colpito la Gran Bretagna. Le charities cattoliche, che già sono sotto pressione perché aumentano le persone che hanno perso il posto di lavoro per colpa della recessione, sono al limite […]

PRIMA PAGINA

I lunghi anni di contrasti che hanno interessato il Trattato di Riforma, entrato in vigore il 1° dicembre 2009, ci hanno insegnato che lo sviluppo dell’Unione europea dipende essenzialmente dalla volontà dei suoi Stati membri. Infatti, per il momento, l’Unione europea è un insieme di Stati sovrani, la cui sovranità, a dire il vero, nell’era […]

“Europe is our common objective”, Busek told Croatia’s presidentStepping up relations and cooperation in “advancing Croatia’s determined journey towards the membership in the European Union”, EU President Jerzy Buzek told Ivo Josipovic in a message of congratulations for his election as president of the Croatian republic. “”I wish you every success in the great work […]

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

“The European Service of External Action will be my first priority. It’s not a mere bureaucratic exercise, but an unprecedented opportunity to realize a tool that encompasses all our efforts – political, economic, military – for a coherent strategy” on the international scene. Catherine Ashton, High Representative for EU Foreign Policy, was perhaps the candidate […]

EU AND USA BISHOPS

Saint Justin of Nablus, Christian martyr and Church father, author of famous works, such as the First and Second Christian Apologies, is among the earliest authors of Christian thought. Indeed, the Latin Catholic parish church of the Palestinian city, some 60km north of Jerusalem is dedicated to the Saint. The community consists of some 300 […]

ECUMENISM

Russia: Kyrill, one year at the Church’s lead “The life of the Church in this past year has been marked by many important events”. In his Christmas message (January 7) the Patriarch of Moscow and of All Russia Kyrill traced a balance of the past year. Over a year ago Patriarch Alexis II, the historical […]

Dioceses and the European Year for Combating Poverty In a letter dated December 10th addressed to all European bishops and European religious representatives Msgr. Adriano H. van Luyn, bishop of Rotterdam and COMECE president (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union), and Father Erny Gillen, President of Caritas Europe, invite European dioceses to […]

Great Britain: churches open for the homelessHundreds of homeless people have been seeking shelter in churches in recent days to protect themselves from the severe winter weather – the worst in thirty years – that has struck the UK. Catholic charities, which are already under pressure because of the increasing number of people who have […]

FRONT PAGE

The many years of disagreements over the Reform Treaty enforced December 1st 2009 have taught us that EU development depends on its Member States’ determination. To be true, the sovereignty of European Union sovereign States in the globalization era is ever less marked by power, and indeed it does consist in a juridical title. Nonetheless […]