Redazione

Collaborazione e rispettoDopo la nuova formazione del Governo, la Conferenza episcopale spagnola, il 13 aprile, ha sottolineato che offrirà la sua “collaborazione”, ma che “richiamerà l’attenzione” quando le attività governative non saranno “conformi al bene” comune, sempre “in un clima di rispetto” e di “umiltà”. A giudizio dell’episcopato spagnolo, le relazioni con il Governo “sono […]

BOSNIA-ERZEGOVINA

Mons. Pero Sudar, vescovo ausiliare di Sarajevo, non usa giri di parole per descrivere la situazione del suo Paese a più di dieci anni dalla fine della guerra. “Ora il destino della Bosnia-Erzegovina è molto più chiaro. All’inizio, la divisione etnica era stata accettata, ritenendo che non ci fossero alternative per fermare la guerra. Era […]

Belgio: la visita dei vescovi in CinaSi è chiusa la visita “esclusivamente pastorale” di una delegazione della Chiesa cattolica belga guidata dal cardinale Godfried Danneels, arcivescovo di Malines-Bruxelles, alle Chiese locali di Pechino e nelle province di Liaoning, Hebei e Shaanxi. La visita rientrava “in un programma di scambio tra le Chiese in Belgio e […]

PRIMA PAGINA

Domenica 13 aprile, il card. Sean Brady, arcivescovo di Armagh (Irlanda), ha presieduto nella chiesa di San Pietro in Montorio a Roma una messa in occasione del 400° anniversario dell’arrivo a Roma di tre conti irlandesi esuli, accolti da Paolo V nell’aprile 1608 (the flight of the earls). Un evento che, ha detto il cardinale, […]

Regulation against air pollution The procedures concerning the new EU regulation on air quality lasted over two and a half years. The document, definitively approved on April 14, will be published on the Official Journal in May and will be enforced in 2011. It covers the Executive’s proposal of September 2005 almost entirely and “shows […]

EU AND THIRD WORLD

“We need to pass from pompous declarations to facts. More financial resources are necessary to foster development, to fight extreme poverty and to provide school education to children throughout the world”: José Manuel Barroso gave a mid-term overview on the Third Millennium objectives established in the year 2000 by the international community to decrease by […]

The media and the appointment of a bishop”For some time already, there have been worrying signs from the social media, such as suggestions or even requests affecting the prerogatives of the Holy See”: the statement was issued a few days ago by the Presidium of Poland’s Bishops Conference in the context of a lively public […]

Cooperation and respectAfter the new government was formed, on April 13 Spain’s Bishops Conference issued a statement offering “cooperation”. However, the Bishops will “speak out” in an atmosphere of cooperation and humbleness whenever governmental activity fails to “comply” with the common good. According to Spain’s Episcopate, relations with the Government are “cordial”, but “they are […]

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Monsignor Pero Sudar, auxiliary bishop of Sarajevo, does not mince words to describe the parlous situation of his country over ten years after the end of the war. “Now the destiny of Bosnia-Herzegovina is far clearer. At the start, ethnic division had been accepted; people thought there were no alternatives to stop the war. Ethnic […]

Belgium: the visit of bishops in China came to an end”The exclusively pastoral” visit of a delegation of the Belgian Catholic Church led by Cardinal Godfried Danneels, archbishop of Malines-Bruxelles, to the local Churches of Beijing and the provinces of Liaoning, Hebei and Shaanxi ended. The visit was part of “an exchange programme between Churches […]