Redazione

MIGRANTS

“The reform of the law on immigration must really improve the situation of those whose presence has been tolerated for many years”, declared the representative of the Council of the German Evangelical Church (EKD), STEPHAN REIMERS, and the director of the Commissariat of the German bishops in Berlin, Msgr. KARL JÜSTEN , commenting on the […]

YOUTH

A Europe for everyone, a Europe of many cultures, a Europe renewed, without barriers, more just and caring – that’s the Europe dreamt of by the Catholic university youth who met with Benedict XVI on Saturday 10 March on the occasion of the 5th European Day of University Students on the theme “Intellectual charity, way […]

The 25th anniversary of the opening of the International Centre of Spirituality for Youth, founded on the initiative of the diocese and province of the Scalabrinian missionaries for migrants, was celebrated in Stuttgart in recent days. Some 200 people of 18 different nationalities were present at the meeting. The project developed by the Centre in […]

Parish councils are “the spinal column of the parishes”. The Bishop of Linz, Ludwig Schwarz, has appealed to Catholics to take part in the elections of the parish councils, scheduled for Sunday 18 March. According to Bishop Schwarz, without the parish councils, “the Church would be far poorer”: for they “bring people closer to the […]

The house of the prophetess of Fatima, Sister Lucy, in the Good Jesus of Braga, will be converted into an old people’s home. The project was announced a few days ago, during a ceremony in the Carmelite community of the Immaculate Conception of the Good Jesus in Braga, where the prophetess used to live. According […]

The closing session of the diocesan inquest on the life, virtues and fame of sanctity of the Servant of God John Paul II will take place in the basilica of St. John Lateran on Monday, 2nd April. The announcement has been made by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, Vicar of the Pope for the diocese of Rome, […]

FRONT PAGE

“World peace could not be safeguarded without creative efforts equal to the danger that threaten it….”: so opened the Schuman Declaration on 9 May 1950. The European Coal and Steel Community (Ecsc) was founded in April 1951 and then the Treaties of Rome were signed on 25 March 1957. Fifty years have gone by since […]

Una successione troppo lunga di eventi tragici ha profondamente contrassegnato la storia dell’Europa. Il loro ricordo è doloroso e non tutte le ferite si sono rimarginate. Tuttavia, dalla creazione del Consiglio d’Europa nel 1949 e dalla firma dei Trattati di Roma del 25 marzo 1957, si è aperta una via nuova che è stata percorsa […]

L’opinione pubblica è stata colpita dalla vicenda di una mamma fiorentina, ricorsa all’aborto, perché al figlio, che portava in grembo, era stata diagnosticata una malformazione. Tuttavia, dopo l’espulsione del feto allo scopo di interrompere la gravidanza, i fatti non sono andati come si era previsto. Intanto, il figlio non era portatore di alcuna malformazione agli […]

MARCHE

A fine febbraio le commissioni consiliari della regione Marche hanno approvato i Piani operativi per l’utilizzo dei fondi europei per gli anni 2007-2013, che poi saranno discussi in Consiglio. Alla regione, che è rientrata nell’Obiettivo europeo di “competitività e innovazione” arriveranno circa 675 milioni di euro, più di quello che si sperava. I finanziamenti sono […]