Redazione

“La questione della difesa della vita dal momento del suo concepimento fino alla morte naturale è oggi il postulato della ragione e della giusta coscienza, indipendentemente dalla fede religiosa, mentre la fede rinforza il rispetto delle leggi naturali iscritti nel cuore di ogni essere umano”. È quanto scrive il presidente della Conferenza episcopale polacca, l’arcivescovo […]

“Non ci sono problemi. Sapevamo da tempo dell’impegno del premier a Riga in Lettonia, per il summit della Nato. Dunque non si può parlare di sgarbo al Papa”. Con queste parole il portavoce dei vescovi turchi, mons. Georges Marovitch, smonta tutte le congetture fatte da diversi organi di stampa sul mancato incontro fra il primo […]

PRIMA PAGINA

Oggigiorno quasi 200 milioni di persone vivono al di fuori del proprio Paese natale. Molti sono stati costretti a lasciarlo a causa della povertà, di problemi ambientali o conflitti politici. Le recenti immagini degli immigrati che cercano di raggiungere le Canarie ci fanno comprendere l’urgente necessità di politiche innovative e creative. E’ necessario affrontare il […]

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

“With this programme we intend to express with pride the achievements and successes obtained in fifty years of European integration. But at the same time we would like there to be many more occasions in 2007 on which to reflect on the current difficulties of the Community process and on the future of the Eu”, […]

ECUMENISM

When the leader of the Anglican Communion and head of the Church of England, Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury meets Benedict XVI in Rome on 21 November, the minds of Anglicans and Catholics engaged for years in the arduous ecumenical endeavour will inevitably recur to an identical meeting, forty years ago, between Paul VI and […]

LITHUANIA

A group of some 50 Lithuanian Catholics have completed a five-month pilgrimage on foot from the Hill of the Crosses in Lithuania to Jerusalem: a journey of 4300 km through Belarus, Ukraine, Hungary, Italy to the Holy Land, conducted in a spirit of penance and thanksgiving for the whole Lithuanian people. The pilgrimage was described […]

CCEE

The extension and consolidation of a European “Catholic network”: this, in the words of its general secretary ALDO GIORDANO, is the main result of the service performed over the years by the Ccee (Council of the European Bishops’ Conferences). During its plenary assembly 2006, held in St. Petersburg from 4 to 8 October, Cardinal Pèter […]

The extraordinary assembly of the Italian Federation of Catholic Weeklies (Fisc), marking its 40th anniversary, will end with an audience of the Pope on Saturday 25 November. “Catholics in politics: free or dispersed? Questions posed by the diocesan magazines”: that is the theme of the meeting that from 23 November will bring together the directors […]

Next Sunday, 12 November, the Catholic Churches of England and Wales will remember the dead of the two world wars and British troops stationed abroad with a special celebration. On the occasion of Remembrance Sunday, held on 12 November every year, it is the time-honoured practice in the Uk to wear a red poppy in […]

Raising the awareness of Portuguese children about the problem of illegal weapons: that was the aim of the celebration called “Disarming Hearts”, organized by the National Commission of Justice and Peace, a lay association promoted by the Portuguese Bishops’ Conference, and held in Lisbon on 28 October. “Transmitting to the new generations the ideal of […]