Redazione

Car accidents: life-saving eCallThere have been 1.2 million car accidents in roads across Europe in 2008, causing the death of 39thousand and leaving over 1.7 million severely injured. The European Commission, on the basis of this ongoing carnage, urges “EU States to speed up the introduction” of the “eCall” initiative. This system installed in vehicles […]

ECUMENISM

WCC: new General Secretary electedThe Norwegian pastor and theologian rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, 48 years old, has been appointed 7th secretary general of the Ecumenical Council of the Churches (WCC). He was appointed yesterday afternoon in Geneva by the Central Committee of Wcc. Tveit is the youngest secretary general in the history of the world […]

POLAND

The Church defends “the human body from disrespect, highlighting the indissoluble bond between body and soul”. Thus declared Msgr. Stanislaw Stefanek, Member of the Council for the Family of the Polish Bishops’ Conference (KEP) during the presentation of the document titled “Spreading Truth about Marriage and Family”. “We ought to render service to objective truth […]

FRANCE

“New forms of solidarity, new society” is the theme of the 84th Social Week of French Catholics. Some 4thousand participants will attend the event due to be held next November 20-22 at the Parc des Expositions de Paris Nord Villepinte (Seine Saint Denis). “Over the past few years we have witnessed increasing solidarity. What is […]

ITALY

“A sickening and very grave fact”. That’s how the President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, described the attack launched against the editor of Italy’s daily of Catholic inspiration Avvenire, Dino Boffo, by Il Giornale, a daily whose proprietor is the brother of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi and whose editor is Vittorio […]

Spain: “no” to marriages of convenienceIn response to the growth of marriages of convenience with which some foreigners attempt to regularize their own position, the Church in Spain has increased efforts to prevent such marriages and to declare null and void those that have already taken place. Many bishoprics have asked their clergy to see […]

FRONT PAGE

Two variables whose outcome could be worse than expected (the duration of the world financial and economic crisis and the unpredictable spread of influenza pandemics) mark the resumption of the political and institutional construction process ensuing a uniquely dormant summer. Expectations are many, but let us follow the agenda. 1 – The legislature of the […]

testamento biologico

I deputati devono essere liberi dall’influenza di qualunque autorità. Affermazioni pienamente condivisibili. Conformi, tra l’altro, al Magistero, ormai, da mezzo secolo a questa parte. Fuori della Chiesa questi slogan vengono ripetuti quando si teme che il dibattito democratico prenda una piega diversa, rispetto ai convincimenti o agli interessi di taluni.Così, ad esempio, avviene in queste […]

educazione

"Riscoprire la centralità della persona per poi rifondare il senso del patto di cittadinanza". Sta in questo il "segreto" dell’educazione delle nuove generazioni, che per Antonio Rosmini è "uno di quei preziosi mezzi che possono mettere il mondo al coperto delle estreme sciagure". Se ne è parlato durante il X corso dei Simposi Rosminiani, che […]

ABRUZZO

Non è un momento facile quello in cui L’Aquila festeggia la Perdonanza e l’inizio del giubileo celestiniano. Il terremoto ha lasciato delle ferite ancora aperte non solo negli edifici, ma nell’animo stesso della popolazione, delle istituzioni, delle comunità e della Chiesa aquilana. Risentimenti e rancori s’insinuano tra chi è partito e chi, invece, ha scelto […]