Thomas Jansen Germania

PRIMA PAGINA

Fino a quanto si deve e si può spingere l’allargamento dell’Unione europea? La comunità europea è stata fondata da sei Stati. Oggi, dopo molte tornate di allargamento, l’Unione comprende già 27 Paesi. Sono in corso i negoziati per l’ingresso della Croazia e della Turchia. Si considerano candidati membri la Serbia, il Kosovo, l’Albania e la […]

EU Parliament: integrated asylum system The number of refugees in the world has grown to over 12 million in the past year while internally displaced persons amount to over 26 million, according to a European Parliament report issued in the session of March 9-12. The report asks that a "single asylum application procedure" and "single […]

EU AND ECONOMIC CRISIS

“We need to do more”: as a slogan, repeated time and time again, this peremptory invitation formed the leitmotiv of the whole European week, once again concentrated on the recession and on the measures to take to alleviate its damaging effects. The economic crisis dominated the agenda at the meeting of the Eurogroup (Finance Ministers […]

CROATIA

In the past days, the Commission for Justice and Peace of Croatia’s Bishops’ Conference issued a statement by its President, Msgr. Vlado Košić, on the media and the market in Croatia. The theme of the media was addressed on several occasions in the past. In 1994 the Commission published a statement on defamation, in 1996 […]

IRELAND

In 2008 Ireland’s twenty-six Catholic dioceses notified to the statutory authorities fifty-six allegations of abuse on minors, 21 of these regarding deceased clergy. In recent years Ireland’s Catholic Church has been involved in several episodes of paedophilia and sexual abuses, and was charged with having covered up some of the alleged accusations. The controversies involving […]

YOUTH

Spain: “intrepid” like Francis XavierOn March 7 over 8 thousand people attended the first yearly pilgrimage to Janvier, the birthplace of the Patron Saint of the Missions Francis Xavier, the Saint of Navarra. Pilgrims convened in Janvier to relive a tradition that dates back to 69 years ago. Most of them arrived from Navarra, but […]

Portugal: a “political” saintOn the occasion of the announcement of the canonization of Blessed Nuno de Santa Maria, planned for next April 26, Lusitanian bishops drew up a Pastoral Note in which they claim that “For Portugal and for the Portuguese population, this fact is reason for hope and rejoice. It must also constitute an […]

Justice and Peace: European anti-trafficking driveA concerted European action to combat the trafficking of human beings, beginning from the end of March, was discussed and decided at Prague, during the annual meeting of general secretaries of the Conference of European Justice and Peace Commissions (“Justice and Peace Europe”) held in Prague, in the Czech Republic […]

FRONT PAGE

How far can EU enlargement go? Six States founded the European Community. Today, after a number of enlargement rounds, the Union includes 27 Countries. Negotiations are under way for adhesion of Croatia and Turkey. Serbia, Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia are EU-membership candidates, while Ukraine, Moldavia and Georgia cherish the ambition of becoming candidate – Member […]

“Paolo e le donne”. Questo il titolo di un ciclo di lezioni pubbliche promosso dalla cattedra “Donna e Cristianesimo” della Pontifica Facoltà teologica “Marianum”, in occasione dell’Anno Paolino. Si comincia venerdì prossimo, 13 marzo, con una lezione della teologa Elena Lea Bartolini su “La donna nella cultura coeva alle Lettere di Paolo”; a seguire la […]