Redazione

On November 12-13 Brussels hosted the world conference “From providential alarm to providential action: developing EU response to crisis and long-term threats”, organized by the General Direction for External Relations of the Commission to discuss latest progress at Community level in the sector of conflict prevention in the various areas of the world, from regional […]

It was a session characterized by the presence in Strasbourg of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, by the debate on the free circulation of people within EU frontiers, and by an analysis of the Commission’s document on the challenge of globalization. Meeting from 12 to 15 November, the European Parliament approved various reports and resolutions and […]

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

He did not disappoint expectations. NICOLAS SARKOZY , President of the French Republic, invited to give a speech to the European Parliament on Tuesday, 13 November, tackled the main problems that regard the future of the EU, without ignoring an analysis of the “crisis” that led to the rejection of the Constitution by the electors […]

CROATIA

Croatia made “substantial” progress to the extent that its EU adhesion is “tangible and concrete”. This is what emerges from the latest Enlargement Report by the European Commission recently illustrated by EU Commissioner Olli Rehn. A good viatic for the country, guided by Stipe Mesic who is nearing parliamentary elections on November 25. Criticism however […]

Treaty, a significant step”A great success” but also criticism. This was the evaluation by Cardinal Karl Lehmann, bishop of Magonza and President of the German Bishops Conference on the future treaty of the European Union, expressed in the past days in Magonza at St. Martnsemfgang, the traditional annual meeting of the bishops of Renania Paltinato […]

Against “recreational” drugsMonsignor Diarmuid Martin, archbishop of Dublin, launched an attack against recreational drugs by saying that these are undoubtedly linked to gang violence and that it would be wrong to deny it. During his address on the occasion of the religious celebration for citizenship in the Anglican “Christ Church” Cathedral in Dublin, Mons. Martin […]

Hospital chaplains for the sickMPs allied to introduce a chaplain for each of the major religions in British hospitals and launched a pressure campaign to ensure pastoral care of the sick. The “All Party Parliamentary Group for Chaplaincy” enjoys the support of over fourty members of the Chamber of Commons from different religions. The British […]

A letter from Bishops of the GalileeWith a “Letter from Galilee”, issued in Jerusalem on November 9, Austrian bishops gathered in Plenary meeting in the Holy Land summarized the main points addressed during the Fall Plenary, held near Tiberias. The minutes of the meeting included reflections on the Pope’s recent visit in Austria and solidarity […]

“We found a common language in Ravenna”. For this reason the document on authority and conciliarity in the Church made public on Thursday November 15 by the “International Mixed Commission for theological dialogue between Rome’s Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church is “particularly important”. This position was highlighted by Mons. ELEUTERIO F. FORTINO , undersecretary […]

ECUMENISM

The statement, signed in October in Ravenna by Orthodox and Catholic leaders about ecclesial communion, conciliarism and authority, is “a positive and significant step forward in dialogue, since it provides “a firm basis for the future discussion of the issue of the primacy within the Church on a universal scale”. But “many” are the “difficult […]