Redazione

The first Polish nuns in the history of the Scottish Catholic Church have arrived in Inverness, capital of the Highlands, in the north-east of Scotland. Sister Marzena, Sister Joanna and Sister Brygida belong to the Congregation of the Sacred Heart and have set up home in a former convent close to the church of St. […]

A course of “Britishness” to help foreign priests to adjust to the culture of the United Kingdom was held for the first time this year in the seminary of Ushaw, at Durham, in northern England, where twelve priests from Poland, India and West Africa studied for three weeks such issues as the role of women, […]

The Pontifical Holy Childhood Mission Society of Ireland has promoted and organized the first national Day of Prayer for Children, due to be celebrated on 12 October. Details of the Day of Prayer were communicated to the Fides International Press Agency by the national director of Holy Childhood in Ireland, Father Ed Grimes. The Archbishop […]

Eleven Spanish dioceses have decided to “go to the cinema”. The Week of Spiritual Cinema, introduced four years ago, is especially aimed at the young. But this year’s event is involving for the first time eleven dioceses, including Barcelona, Bilbao, Toledo and Avila. Promoted by the organization Signis Spagna – recently established – this year’s […]

Directives to the German dioceses on the Pope’s recent Motu proprio, the Synod of Bishops in Rome, the Katholikentag planned to be held in Osnabrück in 2008, the debate on the sexual abuse perpetrated by religious, solidarity with the victims of the floods in Africa, and the position of the bishops on Turkey: these were […]

“Before the parliamentary election, we would like to remind once again that the Church has no political representation and therefore it is not represented by any party. No party is entitled to speak on behalf of the Church or make reference to its support”: this is the statement made by the Polish Bishops in the […]

FRONT PAGE

With the enormous cultural revolutions and scientific developments of the nineteenth century, drastic changes took place in the world and in society. They can be summed up in a single word: globalization. Through globalization, mass communication (the mass media) and its mobilization at the world level, people may receive and transmit signals that create phenomenal […]

“Una proposta di studio e confronto ispirata, da un lato, al tema del bene comune, dall’altro, all’appello che ancora proviene, a 40 anni dalla pubblicazione, dall’Enciclica Populorum Progressio di Paolo VI”. Così Giorgio Zanin, presidente della Consulta delle aggregazioni laicali della diocesi di Concordia-Pordenone, presenta la VI edizione della Settimana Sociale diocesana, dedicata al tema: […]

È “educare” la parola d’ordine scelta dalla diocesi di Piazza Armerina (Enna) per il programma pastorale 2007-2008. “Educare alla fede e alla testimonianza”, secondo il vescovo, mons. Michele Pennisi, è “un’opera che diventa sfida e impegno alla ragione e alla libertà non solo di chi viene educato, ma anche e in primo luogo di chi […]

VALLE D'AOSTA

Con una delibera del 31 agosto e una del 6 settembre, la Regione autonoma Valle d’Aosta ha stanziato circa 950 mila euro per il restauro e la conservazione dei beni di culto, ai sensi della legge regionale 27/1993 dal titolo “Concessione di contributi per il restauro e la conservazione del patrimonio edilizio artistico storico e […]