Redazione

In his homily opening the new Liturgical Year, given in the dos Jerónimos monastery in recent days, Cardinal José Policarpo, Patriarch of Lisbon, appealed to Catholics to respond to the present “need for charity” in order to promote a real transformation of society. The Patriarch of Lisbon declared that “the main dysfunctions of society could […]

The mixed Church-State Commission on education recently held a new meeting in Madrid on the drafts of the Royal Decrees regulating the teaching of Catholic religion and the working regime of the staff who teach it. “An effort was made to ensure that the development of the Organic Law on Education (LOE) – at first […]

“The Days of the Homeless”: this is the name of the initiative, now in its 15th year, for the “homeless”, started at first in Olomouc, Czech Republic. The event is supported by the President of the Czech Bishops Conference, mgr. Jan Graubner, archbishop of Olomouc. This includes many events: from 3rd to 5th December, funds […]

On 29 November, the Archbishop of Olomouc, Jan Graubner, participated in the founding session of the International Scientific Council of Catholic Teachers, annexed to the Teacher-Training Faculty at the Catholic University of Ruzomberok, in Slovakia. The Council, founded thanks to the initiative of Bishop Andrzej Dziega of Sandomierz (Poland), is aimed at seeking new ways […]

“The coming of Christ was long awaited, but no one expected that a stable in Bethlehem would welcome him. My hope for this year is that the Christian message may finally be heard and that the culmination of the politically correct we have now reached may decline”, says Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Archbishop of Edinburgh, in […]

The age limit for consent to sexual intercourse for teenagers, violence within society, permanent deaconship, the attempt to give an answer to infertility and the trade of women: these are the items on the agenda of the December general assembly of the Irish Bishops Conference that took place in Maynooth over the last few days. […]

The first meeting of the mixed Church-State Commission to discuss the funding of church institutions will be held in January. Msgr. Ladislav Nemet, secretary of the Hungarian Bishops’ Conference, has announced that both the State and the Church have appointed their respective members to the Commission. The Church, reports the Catholic press agency Magyar Kurir, […]

CCEE

“The mission of the Ccee is not just limited to the European Union, for its members include all 34 Bishops’ Conferences of the continent, including that of the Russian Federation. The Ccee must never lose sight of the cultural and spiritual unity of the whole continent, which is a very strong bond between peoples, both […]

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It’s always a joy to look at and browse through a fine book. The Atlas of European Values, compiled by the Centre of Sciences and Values at the University of Tilburg (Holland) and published by Brill in 2005, is a real treasure in its contents, analysis and presentation. The introduction asserts with realism that a […]

Abbiamo vissuto tre momenti ben distinti in questo avvenimento che resterà quale pietra miliare nella storia agli albori del terzo millennio: dalla tensione e preoccupazione nei giorni precedenti alla visita per le reazioni che il mondo musulmano poteva creare e che i mass media hanno sfruttato al massimo, siamo passati al momento della distensione appena […]