Jean-Dominique Durand Università di Lione

PRIMA PAGINA

Ogni viaggio pontificio è l’occasione per ricordare i punti salienti della Dottrina sociale della Chiesa. Questa volta il viaggio si è svolto nel cuore dell’Europa, nella vecchia Austria, centro dell’antico impero asburgico, impero plurinazionale che durante i secoli ha riunito nazioni diverse, dall’Italia alla Polonia, dalla Germania all’Ungheria. La follia degli uomini ne ha fatto […]

EU

Racism and discrimination are growing in Europe. It’s a problem – confirmed by various sources – that is combined with the rise of immigration from third countries and some socio-cultural transformations in the various countries of the Old Continent. It’s a phenomenon that the European Year for Equal Opportunities is forcefully denouncing. DISCRIMINATORY ATTITUDES GROWING. […]

To make its contribution in guiding “the processes of globalization in a spirit of solidarity, Europe must not forget its own model”, said the Archbishop of Zagreb and Vice-President of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE), Cardinal Josip Bozanic, in a briefing to Sir Europe during the 40th congress of international studies of the […]

CULTURE AND CULTURES

“A European identity needs to be defined at the cultural and religious level. Its institutions and geographical and political frontiers need to be redefined” to prevent the risk of Europe “sinking into an imperfect melting pot” or “increasingly disintegrating” from a cultural and institutional point of view. This, explain its promoters, is the premise of […]

IRAQ-EUROPE

The Procurator of the Chaldean Church to the Holy See and Apostolic Visitator in Europe, Monsignor PHILIP NAJIM , began his visitation of Chaldean Catholic communities in Europe on 16 September. News of the visitation is given by the website baghdadhope which also provides details of the Procurator’s journey through Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. […]

“May the reflection of your Symposium help support and corroborate true communion, even if imperfect, between Catholics and Orthodox, so that the fullness may be reached that will permit us one day to concelebrate the one Eucharist”. That’s the hope expressed by Pope Benedict XVI in a letter sent to Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of […]

On Friday 14 September, the offices of the Anglican Communion and the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity published the definitive text of the Report of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission for Unity and Mission. The document – with the title “Growing Together in Unity and Mission: Building on 40 years of Anglican […]

A shortlist of five candidates for the Sakharov Prize has been drawn up by the foreign affairs and development committees and human rights sub-committee of the European Parliament. The name of the winner will be announced on 25 October, and the prize-giving ceremony will take place in Strasbourg on 11 December. The first of the […]

Russian Orthodox Archbishop Zosima of Elista and Kalmykia paid a visit to Benedict XVI in the Vatican on Thursday 13 September, during which he conveyed the greetings of the Patriarch of Moscow and all the Russias, Alexei II. The visit is reported by the Russian Interfax press agency, citing the press office of the diocese […]

ECUMENISM

The 15th International Colloquium of Orthodox Spirituality was held at the Monastery of Bose (Italy) from 16 to 19 September. Promoted by the monastery and held under the auspices of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Patriarchate of Moscow, this year’s Colloquium was dedicated to the mystery of Christ’s Transfiguration. Not only representatives of […]