Redazione

ANGLICANI

Per porre fine ad un periodo di incertezza, verrà presto pubblicata una “Costituzione Apostolica” che rende possibile a gruppi di chierici e fedeli anglicani di entrare nella “piena e visibile comunione” con la Chiesa cattolica. Il provvedimento è stato presentato il 19 ottobre ai giornalisti in Vaticano dal prefetto della Congregazione per la Dottrina della […]

BENEDETTO XVI E L'EUROPA

Dimenticare le radici cristiane dell’Europa è esporre il continente europeo al “rischio” di vedere il suo “slancio originale soffocato dall’individualismo e dall’utilitarismo”. È quanto ha sottolineato papa Benedetto XVI ricevendo il 19 ottobre in Vaticano le Lettere credenziali di Yves Gazzo, capo della delegazione della Commissione delle Comunità europee presso al Santa Sede. Nel solco […]

PRIMA PAGINA

È tempo di scelte politiche e di decisioni operative, fra Strasburgo e Bruxelles, e l’Europa comunitaria s’interroga, ancora una volta, sul proprio futuro. La sessione plenaria dell’Europarlamento del 19-22 ottobre, l’attività della Commissione (il cui mandato scadrà a fine mese), il Consiglio dei capi di Stato e di governo convocato per il 29 e 30 […]

The European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion The European Union proclaimed 2010 the "European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion". The program of the Year will be presented during the conference titled "Poverty between perception and reality. The challenge of communication" scheduled for next October 28-29 in Brussels and addressed to politicians, […]

EUROPEAN UNION

Hectic days in EU head offices. Agriculture, the single currency, the economy, the environment, reforms are among the many issues that are being addressed in Luxembourg (Ecofin and Ministers of agriculture), Strasburg (Parliament), Brussels (Commission and the preparation of the end of October summit). With an eye to Stockholm: the direct, concrete active performance of […]

SPAIN

Two million according to the organizing committee, 1,200,000 according to the municipality of Madrid, took part in the mass demonstration in the Spanish capital on Saturday 17 October, organized by 42 civil associations, to protest against the bill on abortion presented to Parliament by the government of Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. A “human tide”, “an explosion […]

Germany: a clarifying meetingAn open, constructive dialogue”: this is how the German Catholic and Evangelical Churches judged an explanatory meeting in Karlsruhe, which took place on 14th October after tensions aroused by an internal evangelical document that contained considerations on the Catholic Church which caused some annoyance. The text had been submitted to the Ecclesiastic […]

Germany: Catholic Media PrizeWith an appeal to journalists to be aware of their responsibility for quality and truthfulness, mgr. Robert Zollitsch, President of the German Bishops Conference (Dbk), gave the Katholischer Medienpreis, the Catholic Media Award, in Bonn on October 19. “The pursuit of the truth makes man free”, he stated. “If I live committed […]

ANGLICANS

In order to put an end to a period of uncertainty, an “Apostolic Constitution”, allowing Anglican faithful and clericals to enter in “full and visible communion” with the Catholic Church, is due to be published soon. The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Card. William Levada, prese nted the document on […]

BENEDICT XVI AND EUROPE

Overlooking the Christian roots of Europe means exposing the European continent to the “risk” of allowing its “original thrust be crushed by individualism and utilitarianism”, underlined Pope Benedict XVI as he accepted the diplomatic credentials of Yves Gazzo, head of the Commission of European Communities to the Holy See. Following the wake of Christian values. […]