Redazione

Della necessità del “perdono che scaturisce dalla misericordia e che solo può sanare le ferite inflitte alla Polonia dai tempi dell’occupazione nazista e sovietica durante la seconda guerra mondiale” ha parlato il card. Stanislaw Dziwisz, nell’omelia pronunciata nel santuario di Lagiewniki, il 15 aprile, Domenica della Divina Misericordia. Il segretario di Giovanni Paolo II ha […]

Il Sinodo delle Chiese evangeliche riformate in Polonia ha pubblicato in questi giorni la sua posizione rispetto alla verifica in atto su eventuali collaboratori dei servizi segreti comunisti. “Non si può chiarire il difficile periodo di quasi mezzo secolo di storia di un popolo di quaranta milioni di persone senza grande meticolosità, pazienza, conoscenza e […]

FRANCE

44.5 million French people will be called to the ballot box on 22 April for the first round in the Presidential elections. There is enormous interest in the event, testified by the “significant increase” of those who have registered in the electoral lists (+4.2% over the figure for last year). The new occupant of the […]

“The politics of the G8 countries strengthens unfair structures all over the world”. This was reported by the Catholic organisations of the diocese of Limburg, Germany, which invite the public opinion to “follow carefully and critically” the G8 summit that will take place from June 6th to 8th in Ostseebad Heiligendamm. So, the limelight will […]

The Spanish Bishops started a campaign to promote the students’ enrolment in the Catholic religion classes at school. The Spanish Bishops Conference, through the Office for Education and Catechesis, launched a campaign – with posters and brochures being handed out -, in which they urge the families to “assert this right that is also a […]

A chaplain for the 300 thousand gipsies of the United Kingdom, the majority of whom are Catholic. It was decided by the Bishops Conference of England and Wales, that thus aims at reviving the announcement of the Gospel to the Romany communities, many of whom come from Poland and Romania. The decision was taken at […]

The Scottish bishops have written a letter to the voters, who are going to elect the new Parliament on May 3rd, asking them to question the nominees on some key issues of Catholic morality, such as the family, the schools, the right to life and religious freedom. In the message, read in all the churches […]

FRONT PAGE

René Rémond died in Paris at the age of 88 on 14 April. Catholic intellectual, historian and political analyst, Rémond was rector of Paris-Nanterre University, President of the French Foundation of Political Sciences and member of the Academie Française. “He was a great Christian and a true humanist”, said Archbishop Jean-Pierre Ricard, President of the […]

The killing in Turkey of three staff members of a small Christian publishing house (including one German) has aroused horror and outrage in Germany. The FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG comments as follows (19/4): “At first sight it might be deduced that Islamic extremists are behind the assassination. But this is not at all certain. In the […]

COUNCIL OF EUROPE

“In spite of the considerable progress made in member states, also thanks to the role played by the Council of Europe, the fact remains that grave violations of human rights continue to be committed in our continent”, said CHRISTOS POURGOURIDES, rapporteur of the legal affairs committee of the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE). His denunciation in the […]