Redazione

"Concrete Europe", the facts of 2009What has the European Union done for you over the past year? To answer this recurring question, the Commission published online at http://ec.europa.eu/snapshot (in English, the 22 official languages due to follow suit) a snapshot of the "ten actions that have been put in place over the past year by […]

EU SUMMIT

Economy and employment, environment, security, enlargement, international policy: the summit of EU heads of state and of government, held in Brussels on 10 and 11 December, offered a complete panorama of the issues that demand clear responses from the 27. Conducted under the current Swedish chairmanship of the European Council, the summit was the first […]

IRELAND

On December 11, the Holy Father, “deeply disturbed and distressed”, met two “senior Irish bishops and high-ranking members of the Roman Curia. He discussed with them the Report on child-abuse by priests from the Catholic archdiocese in Dublin. The President of the Irish Bishops’ Conference Card. Seán Baptist Brady, and the archbishop of Dublin, Msgr. […]

SPAIN

The Declaration of the Spanish Bishops on the country’s moral and economic crisis was presented on Friday 11 December. The document was approved during the last plenary assembly of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference, at the end of November. On the economic and social difficulties of so many families and victims of the crisis, the bishops […]

TURKEY

The next will be the first Christmas after the Pauline Year. The Catholic community in Turkey, less than 40 thousand faithful across the country, will experience Christmas “with renewed vigour and courage, owing to the presence of thousands of pilgrims that retraced the footsteps of the apostle Paul. And even though the flow of pilgrims […]

Italy: solidarity to Premier BerlusconiThe presidency of the Italian Bishops’ Conference condemned the assault on Premier Silvio Berlusconi in Milan in a note issued December 13, the same day of the attack. “The violent attack against the Prime Minister was an episode of singular and abominable gravity”, states the note. “As we express our sincere […]

FRONT PAGE

The relationship between Europe and the youth is known in policies, programs, academic courses, school competitions and the like. Officials in Brussels acknowledged that more should and could be done, but the priorities (like it or not) lie elsewhere. And the opposite – namely a bottom-up relationship of the youth with Europe – is also […]

GIORNATA PACE 2010

"La salvaguardia del creato e la realizzazione della pace sono realtà tra loro intimamente connesse". Lo afferma Benedetto XVI nel suo messaggio per la celebrazione della Giornata mondiale della pace che ricorre il 1° gennaio 2010, intitolato "Se vuoi coltivare la pace, custodisci il creato". Il messaggio è stato presentato oggi (15 dicembre) in sala […]

GIORNATA PACE 2010

Un testo bello ed importante il messaggio per la Giornata mondiale della pace 2010: una ripresa e un rilancio di parecchi spunti già presenti nella dottrina sociale della Chiesa – specie nella "Caritas in Veritate" – ma con una forza e un’incisività tutte nuove. Un testo che medita il rapporto tra l’uomo e l’ambiente naturale […]

MOTU PROPRIO

Una precisazione sul diaconato e la soppressione di una clausola in tre canoni in materia matrimoniale: sono i contenuti del Motu proprio "Omnium in mentem" ("All’attenzione di tutti") pubblicato il 15 dicembre. Delle motivazioni e dei contenuti del documento, che apporta alcune modifiche al Codice di diritto canonico, che da tempo erano sottoposte allo studio […]