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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

The Europe of the Treaties and the Europe of “results”: not two opposing visions, but two faces of the same coin. The European Parliament, meeting in Strasbourg for its plenary session from 22 to 25 October, held a debate on the results of the Lisbon summit, analysed on its first reading the EU budget for […]

CHRISTIAN ROOTS

Austria, Poland, Spain: these are the countries of the Servants of God due to be beatified between 26 and 28 October. Franz Jägerstätter, Austrian, martyr of the Nazi regime, will be proclaimed Blessed in the cathedral of the Immaculate in Linz (Austria, at 10.00 am) on 26 October. Celina Chludzi?ska, Polish nun, founder of the […]

ECUMENISM

“Those who use the name of God to hate their neighbour, to undertake acts of violence and to wage war, are cursing God’s name”. These words were pronounced in the appeal for peace which marked the conclusion of the Interreligious Peace Meeting held in Naples -Italy- on October 21-23 by initiative of the Community of […]

“Common social standards in Europe”: that’s the request formulated during the 6th Central European Congress of the Catholic Workers’ Movement (KAB) held in Vienna in recent days with the slogan “Europe needs us all”. “Prevention, assistance and welfare must ensure people of a decent life”, says the final resolution drafted by some 150 activists of […]

The right of asylum is one thing: the duty of the State to regulate immigration with a view to the common good is quite another”, said Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, President of the Austrian Bishops’ Conference, during an interview with the Austrian magazine News . The cardinal was commenting on the recent “Arigona” case, the girl […]

AUSTRIA

“80 million poor people in Europe are waiting for the promises of the EU in Lisbon 2000 to be kept and a social Europe for everyone to be realized”: on the occasion of the recent International anti-Poverty Day, the Austrian Armutkonferenz (Conference for Poverty) has sent an open letter to Federal Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer and […]

Vandalism in the Catholic cemetery of Chanià, on the Isle of Crete, Greece. It has been reported by mgr. Francesco Papamanolis, bishop of Syros, Santorini and Crete, and president of the Greek Bishops Conference, in a note sent to SIR, in which he states that “for the third time the Catholic cemetery of Chanià, on […]

An open letter to the Nation on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Abortion Act, passed in 1967. It was written by the two presidents of the Bishops Conferences of Scotland, England and Wales, card. Keith O’Brian and card. Cormac Murphy O’Connor. “The 1967 Act – write the cardinals – meant to solve […]

An official release to express pain but above all to invite those who know to speak. It was sent yesterday by the archbishop of Armagh and the primate of all Ireland, following the murder of Paul Quinn, a 21-year-old boy from the province of Armagh, a lorry driver who was brutally murdered last Saturday with […]

FRONT PAGE

The UDC (Democratic Union of the Centre) took almost 29% of the votes in the Swiss parliamentary elections on Sunday, 21 October. After conducting a campaign focused on such issues as the repatriation of “criminal foreigners” and “insecurity”, the party of populist millionaire Christoph Blocher, Federal Minister of Justice and Public Order, emerged reinforced from […]