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Austria: prevenire meglio che punire”La prevenzione è più importante dell’inasprimento della pena”: questo il parere di mons. Klaus Küng sulla terribile vicenda del caso di incesto di Amstetten. In un’intervista pubblicata il 3 maggio dal quotidiano “Die Presse”, il vescovo di St. Pölten, ha sottolineato che in casi “di un comportamento così perverso, come quello […]

Bosnia-Erzegovina: non perdere le radici cristianeL'”attenzione verso il prossimo” come importante “elemento per costruire la pace nel mondo”: con queste parole il vescovo della Carinzia, mons. Alois Schwarz, ha salutato l’arrivo di una delegazione dell’arcidiocesi di Sarajevo. L’incontro, cui ha partecipato il card. Vinko Puljic, è avvenuto nel quadro del gemellaggio tra le diocesi di […]

PRIMA PAGINA

Nel contesto del recente viaggio di Papa Benedetto XVI negli Stati Uniti ha assunto particolare rilievo la sua sosta nel Palazzo di vetro delle Nazioni Unite, di cui ha scritto per SIR Europa Aldo Giordano segretario generale del Ccee, il Consiglio delle conferenze episcopali europee.Vogliamo tornare, con un percorso storico, alla volontà dei successori di […]

enlargement (3)

Third step of the trip of SirEurope (cfr. 19 e 23/2008) in the new enlargement Countries. From Baltic Estonia, former Soviet Republic independent since August 1991, the director of the Centre for the development of Pölva district, Kaire Mets, gave an insight into the pros and cons of EU adhesion. Almost four years have passed […]

EUROPEAN UNION

“The economic and monetary Union is a solid construction”, “an undeniable success”; “in a period of great uncertainty like this, in which the prices of energy and food are increasing, we need to congratulate ourselves on having at our disposal a single currency, based on a market that comprises 320 million people”, declared Joaquin Almunia, […]

comece

“A common foreign policy must lead to expand the sense of goodness among Europeans”. This was the conclusion of the analysis drawn by Father Henri Madelin in April’s issue of “Europe infos”, monthly magazine of Comece (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community) and Ocipe (Catholic information and intiative Office for Europe) introduced […]

ecumenism

The exchange of greetings in St. Peter’s Square between Pope Benedict XVI and His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of all the Armenians, ended with a fraternal embrace, sealed by an Armenian song, before the start of Wednesday’s general audience. The Patriarch had arrived in Rome on Tuesday 6 May. He comes at […]

Poland: “Templeton” award to cosmologist priest Michael Heller, a 72-year-old Polish priest and expert in cosmology, is the winner of the 2008 Templeton Awards. This was announced today, at a press conference in New York, by the John Templeton Foundation that created the award (820 thousand pounds) in 1973. Born in 1936 in Tarnow (Poland), […]

Austria: preventing is better than punishing”Prevention is much more effective than harsher punishment”, declared Msgr. Klaus Küng commenting the tragic case of incest in Amstetten. In an interview published May 3rd by the daily “Die Presse”, the bishop of St. Pölten underlined that in “cases of extreme wickedness such as this, the question is the […]

Bosnia-Herzegovina: preserving Christian roots The “love of our neighbour” is important “for the creation of world peace”. These were the welcoming words pronounced by the bishop of Kärnten Msgr. Carinzia Alois Schwarz, upon the arrival of a delegation from the Archdiocese of Sarajevo. The meeting, attended by His Eminence Cardinal Vinko Puljic, was held in […]