Redazione

Italia: ospedale, parrocchia, territorio”Ospedale, parrocchia, territorio: luoghi di promozione della salute”. A questo tema è stato dedicato il decimo convegno nazionale dei direttori degli Uffici diocesani per la pastorale della sanità. Il convegno, svoltosi nei giorni scorsi a Chianciano Terme (Siena), è stato promosso dall’Ufficio per la pastorale sanitaria della Conferenza episcopale italiana (Cei). “Come […]

UE

“Preparazione del Consiglio europeo a seguito del referendum in Irlanda”: una semplice modifica all’ordine del giorno della sessione dell’Europarlamento in corso a Strasburgo (16-19 giugno) segnala il clima di preoccupazione e incertezza che regna nelle sedi istituzionali Ue. Il voto con il quale gli irlandesi hanno respinto la ratifica del Trattato di Lisbona ha imposto […]

PRIMA PAGINA

Quali ragioni hanno spinto la maggioranza degli elettori irlandesi a dire “no” al Trattato di Lisbona? Quali ricadute avrà tale pronunciamento sull’iter di ratifica del testo? Quali contromosse si potrebbero studiare per evitare una nuova fase di stallo del processo di integrazione comunitaria? Sono i quiz che circolano in questi giorni in tutti gli ambienti […]

CULTURE

In 2015 Milan (Italy) will be hosting the Expo. Is this an opportunity also for the Church? Msgr. Josef Homeyer, bishop emeritus of Hildesheim, who experienced Hannover’s Expo 2000 is sure it is. He spoke about it exclusively for Sir. New religiosity, new culturality. As is known, experience is more effective than arguments and statistics. […]

FRANCE

“For the past 25 years, following the appeal of the Second Vatican Council that sought an adequate response to the needs of candidates to ordained ministry, a series of initiatives were undertaken in France”. “Propaedeutic years were thus set up to prepare candidates in view of their entrance in the seminary, with different contents and […]

ECUMENISM

Cec/Kek: congratulations to Monsignor GiordanoThe Conference of European Churches (CEC/KEK) has issued a communiqué expressing its congratulations to Mgr. Giordano, general secretary of the CCEE, for his appointment as permanent Observer of the Holy See to the Council of Europe, a post he will officially assume in Strasbourg on 1st September. The Rev. Jean-Arnold de […]

CCEE

“The relation between the Churches and the mass media needs as a matter of urgency to be developed in a complex historical period in which so much disinformation is being disseminated about the Church”, said Cardinal Péter Erdõ, President of the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE) in his keynote address opening the […]

Italy: hospital, parish, territory”Hospital, parish, territory, these are the places for health promotion”. This was the topic of the tenth national conference of the directors of diocesan offices for health pastoral care. The meeting, held the past few days in Chianciano Terme (Italy), was promoted by the office for health pastoral care of Italy’s Bishops’ […]

EU

“Preparation of the European Council following the referendum in Ireland”: a simple amendment of the order of the day for the European Parliament session now underway in Strasbourg (16-19 June) marks the climate of uncertainty and trepidation that reigns in the EU’s institutional headquarters. The vote by which the Irish people rejected the ratification of […]

FRONT PAGE

What are the underlying motivations which led the majority of Irish voters to say “no” to the Lisbon Treaty? What will be the repercussions upon the document’s ratification procedure? Which strategies could prevent a new standstill in the community’s integration process? These are hanging questions, which have been circulating these days in all EU environments. […]