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EU

Seven “priorities” and seven “lines of action” make up the “Manifesto for Creativity and innovation in Europe” presented as one of the outcomes of the EU special Year dedicated to these issues. In the last months hundredth of events involved the Member States: at the closing program the “Ambassadors of the Year” presented a guideline […]

ECUMENISM

Anglicans: cardinal Kasper, “dialogue continues”On November 19-22 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, primate of the Anglican Communion, was received in the Vatican. This visit shows “there has been no rupture and reaffirms the common wish to communicate in the present important historical moment”. Thus declared Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council […]

ANGLICANS-CATHOLICS

The visit to Rome of Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Anglican Communion, opened on 19 November in an atmosphere of realistic optimism. The archbishop will remain in Rome until Saturday 21 November for a series of talks in the Vatican, a few days after the publication of the Apostolic Constitution “Anglicanorum […]

CHURCH AND MEDIA

The assembly of the European Episcopal Commission for the Media (EECM) was held in the Vatican from 12 to 15 November on “The Internet culture and communication of the Church. SIR Europe gathered some comments on the meeting from various representatives of the Bishops’ Conferences of the continent.Italy. “At a time when great ferment is […]

ALBANIA

“The Church has risen from the ashes”, Msgr. Rrok Mirdita, archbishop of Tirana-Durrës and President of the Albanian Bishops’ Conference (CEA), thus described the current situation of the Catholic community in the Country. For 50 years the Church suffered ferocious Communist repression. In its drive to uproot faith from the Country, the Communist regime arrested, […]

England: "Faith in the Future" programme"Faith in the Future" is an important fund-raising initiative of the Catholic Church in England, which in 2006, the year of its launch, already raised almost four million pounds, equivalent to roughly four and a half million euros. It raises funds for a huge range of projects, including those in […]

Portugal: pastoral note on euthanasia At the end of the Plenary Assembly held in Fatina November 9-12, Portuguese bishops addressed the question of euthanasia and the forthcoming papal visit in Portugal, due to take place in May 2010. In a meeting with the press the Secretary of the Portuguese Bishops’ Conference (CEP), father Manuel Morujão, […]

COMECE

Now that the “dialogue” between European institution and the Churches has been codified in the Treaty of Lisbon (due to come into force next December 1st, ed.’s note) “it’s a matter of knowing how to conduct the dialogue and for which objectives”, declared the bishop of Rotterdam Msgr. Adrianus van Luyn, President of the Commission […]

FRONT PAGE

With a keynote address on major European issues the Most Rev. Adrianus van Luyn, Bishop of Rotterdam and President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE), opened the organization’s autumn plenary session in Brussels on 18 November. The session ends today. We present below a passage from his speech relating […]

ACQUA

Con il sì definitivo dell’Aula della Camera al decreto legge Ronchi che liberalizza i servizi pubblici locali, la gestione dell’acqua e dei rifiuti passerà progressivamente nelle mani dei privati, mentre la proprietà della rete idrica resterà agli enti locali. Sul provvedimento era stata posta dal governo la fiducia. Contro la privatizzazione si sono già sollevate […]