Redazione

COMECE

“Political initiatives” aimed at preventing divorce, at reconciling the work and the family, at fighting domestic violence, at safeguarding the choice of raising one’s children on a full-time basis until they are three years old and at reducing VAT on child care products. These are some of the guidelines listed in the “Proposal for a […]

LITHUANIA

Catholics in Lithuania amount to 80-85% of the overall population. It is the most Catholic of the three Baltic States. Despite the fact that Lihtuania was the last European country to be christened, in 1939 Pope Pius XII defined it the “the pillar of Catholicism in Northern Europe.” The Lithuanian Church consists of 7 dioceses. […]

ROMANIA-ITALY

On Wednesday, October 31, Giovanna Reggiani died, the 47-year-old Italian woman flogged to death and thrown in a ditch in Rome. A 24-year old Romanian nomad was arrested by the police, Nicolae Romulus Mailat. The episode led to an outburst of polemics in Italy vouching for stricter legislation on safety and immigration. A draft-law on […]

In spite of a slight fall of the number of participants in Sunday Mass, the number of Catholics who take the sacrament of penance remains high in Poland. During the last Sunday in October, the number of dominicantes (i.e. those who participate in Sunday Mass) and that of comunicantes (those who take the sacrament of […]

At the end of October, on the occasion of the National Day in Austria, the Ecumenical Council of Austrian Churches (Örkö) made an appeal to the nation’s political leaders in Vienna, urging them to ensure that the situation of the families of refugees well integrated in the country “be resolved in a way conforming to […]

On 5 November, the plenary assembly of French bishops elected the new President of the Bishops’ Conference of France (CEF): he is the Most Rev. André Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris, who will be created cardinal at the next Consistory on 24 November. He will be flanked as Vice-Presidents by the Most Rev. Hippolyte Simon, Archbishop […]

FRONT PAGE

Are we taking Belgium’s crisis seriously enough? The press too often underestimates the importance of the crisis under way in this small country of north-western Europe, slightly mysterious with its complex federative institutions which a non-Belgian citizen strives to understand and with its repeated ministerial crises generally too long to solve. But this time it’s […]

INFRASTRUTTURE

Telecomunicazioni, energia, elettricità, strade, ferrovie, acqua: sono i grandi sistemi infrastrutturali comuni a tutti i paesi e oggi particolarmente complessi ed interconnessi per quanto riguarda l’Europa, con la sua trentina di nazioni e una geografia particolarmente frastagliata. Quali sfide attendono l’Europa nei prossimi decenni? Se ne è parlato in un forum internazionale promosso a Roma […]

PARI OPPORTUNITÀ

In Italia, “le università sono istituzioni essenzialmente maschiliste”, ma a livello di popolazione studentesca “le donne sono più della metà e i loro curricoli sono decisamente migliori di quelli dei colleghi maschi”. Lo ha detto ALESSANDRO FINAZZI AGRÒ , rettore dell’Università Tor Vergata, aprendo il convegno internazionale su “Pari opportunità e diritti umani”, promosso nei […]

MINORANZE

Si calcola siano almeno otto milioni, la minoranza più consistente nell’Europa comunitaria, la metà dei quali ha meno di 18 anni. Ma i dati sono approssimativi per forza di cose. Con l’ingresso di Romania e Bulgaria, le popolazioni rom, sinti e “camminanti” sono tornate al centro dell’attenzione nell’Ue. I gruppi di appartenenza, le tradizioni e […]