Redazione

CRISTIANI PER L'EUROPA

Un appello “per una nuova presa di coscienza da parte di tutti i cittadini dell’Unione europea” poiché “la visione dei padri fondatori dell’Europa non è una questione del passato”, ma “è il progetto per l’avvenire che il nostro continente attende”, è stato lanciato il 28 febbraio a Bruxelles dal Gruppo Ixe (Iniziativa dei cristiani per […]

PRIMA PAGINA

Il Parlamento della Repubblica di Slovenia ha approvato il 2 febbraio la nuova legge sulla libertà religiosa. Nel periodo in cui si attendeva l’approvazione della proposta di legge i mass-media sloveni hanno iniziato una campagna di attacchi contro la Chiesa cattolica, accusandola di riservarsi una posizione privilegiata nei confronti delle altre Chiese e in generale […]

Uproar was caused by the sentence of the German Constitutional Court rejecting the suit of an unmarried couple that had requested a refund from the State for fertility treatment; married couples are given state aid for such treatment. The motivation of the Court is as follows: The legislator is permitted to consider marriage as the […]

REVIEW OF IDEAS

The 50th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome will be celebrated in late March. To mark this event the Christian Churches are preparing a declaration. What does Christianity mean for united Europe in our time? The interview of Ulrich Ruh of Herder-Korrespondenz on these issues with HANS MAYER , emeritus professor of the Guardini Chair […]

The course of Lenten catechesis of Cardinal José Policarpo, Patriarch of Lisbon, has begun. It takes the form of a cycle of six meetings linked to the theme: “The reasons of our believing”. The first pastoral catechesis, last Sunday, took its cue from the witness of the Evangelist John I: 23: “I am the voice […]

PORTUGAL

A new law on the voluntary interruption of pregnancy was proposed in recent days by the political parties that took a position in favour of ‘yes’ in the referendum of 11 February on the de-penalization of abortion in Portugal. The parties in question, PS, PCP, Left coalition (BE) and Greens (PEV), have in fact reached […]

A collection of funds for Darfur (Sudan) and other African countries where children are suffering from famine will be held in all churches in Poland on Sunday 4 March. It is being promoted by the aid organization “Ad Gentes” run by the Polish Church. The chairman of the Commission for Missionary Works of the Polish […]

The 20th anniversary of the death of the Servant of God Father Franciszek Blachnicki (1921-1987) was celebrated in Poland on 27 February. Blachnicki was the founder of the most numerous ecclesial movement in Poland, Ruch Swiatlo-Zycie (Light and Life Movement), which currently comprises over 100,000 members. Its many communities prayed for a speedy conclusion of […]

POLAND

The announced publication of Father Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski’s book “Priests before the SB [Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa: the security service] in the Archdiocese of Krakow” has re-ignited the question of the collaboration, real or presumed, of members of the Polish clergy with the security services of the former Communist regime, following the resignation of the Archbishop of Warsaw, […]

With a pastoral letter published a few days ago, Bishop Jiri Padour of Ceske Budejovice, who heads the youth commission of the Czech Bishops’ Conference, invited the young to take part in National Youth Day due to be held in Tabor, a town in southern Bohemia, from 13 to 19 August. “At the start of […]