Redazione

Portugal: festival of peoples with migrantsMany Portuguese dioceses held a Festival of Peoples to coincide with Pentecost, with the aim of bringing together the large numbers of migrants dispersed over the territory, and show the active presence and assistance given by the Church to the integration process, while respecting the different cultural values represented by […]

ITALY

Education is one of the themes of the next decade’s Pastoral Guidelines – 2010-2020 -, along with the economic and financial crisis, the so-called “moral question”, immigration, the EU and schools. Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference addressed a number of issues during the press conference held May 29 in the Vatican […]

Switzerland: pilgrimage for the unity of the Church”Peace be with you!”: with these reconciliatory words, mgr. Kurt Koch, president of the Swiss Bishops Conference, spoke to the many devotees that attended, in the Marian sanctuary of Einsieldeln on Monday 1st July, the “National Pilgrimage for the unity of the Catholic Church in Switzerland and with […]

THE CHURCH AND EUROPE

Ensuing the many “appeals” to vote in the European Parliament elections pronounced by European Bishops’ Conferences (Cf. SIR Europe n.38/2009), SIR Europe asked a series of questions to Cardinal Peter Erdo, archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, primate of Hungary and President of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE).What do you reckon to be the contribution that […]

FRONT PAGE

Robert Schuman, Catholic, “frontiersman”, and French Foreign Minister, was far-unusually sighted when on 9 May 1950 he presented the “Declaration” that would represent the founding charter for European integration: “Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements, first of all by creating […]

Dopo la rassegna di “appelli” delle Conferenze episcopali europee per la partecipazione alle elezioni del Parlamento europeo, SIR Europa ha posto alcune domande al card. Péter Erdő, arcivescovo di Esztergom-Budapest, primate d’Ungheria e presidente del Consiglio delle Conferenze episcopali d’Europa (Ccee).Quale è a suo avviso il contributo che i cattolici sono chiamati ad offrire oggi […]

Nell’Ue “il principio di sussidiarietà appare ancora troppo sullo sfondo” e senza il “primato della società civile” vi è il rischio che “i cittadini vedano il Parlamento europeo come una sorta di superparlamento” che si pronuncia “su tutto, spesso nell’intento di forzare le società civili”. A dichiararlo in un’intervista al SIR, a pochi giorni dalle […]

Aveva visto lungo Robert Schuman, cattolico, uomo “di frontiera”, allora ministro degli Esteri francese, lanciando il 9 maggio 1950 la “Dichiarazione” che avrebbe rappresentato la carta costituiva per l’integrazione comunitaria: “L’Europa non si farà d’un tratto, né in una costruzione globale. Essa si farà con delle realizzazioni concrete, creando anzitutto una solidarietà di fatto”. Una […]