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“Bridge to hope”: that’s how OSCAR GUERRA , delegate for migrations of the diocese of Tenerife, calls the Canary Isles. He describes the characteristics of the new immigration directed at Spain from various African countries over the last 11 months. Spain has already begun repatriating clandestine immigrants, sending back over a thousand from Senegal who […]

Fifty years after the tragic events surrounding the crushing of the Hungarian uprising, a proposal of life for a new humanity has been made: that of universal brotherhood. Some 11,000 people from 92 countries participated in the international rally promoted by the Focolare Movement in the Hungarian capital on 16 September. Its programme and aims […]

A delegation of the Croatian Bishops’ Conference visited Hungary, at the invitation of the President of the Hungarian episcopate, Cardinal Péter Erdo. Cardinal Josip Bozanic, Archbishop of Zagreb, head of the delegation, and Cardinal Erdo gave a press conference on the meeting on 13 September. The two bishops’ conferences regularly meet for bilateral meetings. Last […]

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“Whoever lives according to the will and pleasure of God, is blessed! Beatitude is the realization of God’s will”, wrote Sister Sára Salkaházi of the Society of the Social Sisters 70 years ago in her diary on 30 August 1936. She was beatified on Sunday 17 September 2006, just on the day on which Sister […]

A network of European ports to improve the assistance provided in ‘Stella Maris’ centres and thus provide better support to seamen and follow them in their voyages: that’s the proposal made by the European Meeting of the Apostleship of the Sea that opened at Rocca di Papa (Rome) on 18 September. The theme of this […]

Starting from the next school year 2007-2008 students in Spanish schools will find a new subject on their curriculum, “Education in citizenship” (one of the innovations of the Organic Law on Education), which according to Catholic family associations is a “violation of parents’ freedom to choose the education they wish for their children and imposes […]

A seminar on “Church and culture”, a review of the recent visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Bavaria and the election of the members and chairmen of the fourteen episcopal committees, and the various sub-committees, are the main questions on the order of the day of the autumn plenary assembly of the German Bishops’ Conference, […]

“Beati quelli che hanno compassione degli altri: Dio avrà compassione di loro” è stato il tema dell’Agorà dei giovani del Mediterraneo, svoltosi recentemente a Loreto. L’edizione di quest’anno, la quinta, ha rivestito un’importanza particolare perché come spiega mons. Paolo Giulietti, responsabile del Servizio nazionale per la pastorale giovanile (Snpg), “è stato un passo avanti verso […]

Incoraggianti prospettive nel campo della medicina rigenerativa e un numero di applicazioni terapeutiche già sufficientemente rilevante (sono più di 70 al momento) per dire che siamo sulla buona strada nell’utilizzo delle staminali adulte in medicina: questa la sintesi dei lavori del congresso internazionale sul tema “Cellule staminali: quale futuro terapeutico”, svolta dal presidente della Pontificia […]

Non poteva mancare, durante l’attuale sessione del Consiglio permanente, un’attenzione al IV Convegno ecclesiale nazionale. ” Volgendo lo sguardo ai tre Convegni nazionali precedenti, possiamo renderci conto – ha osservato nella sua prolusione il card. Camillo Ruini, presidente della Cei – di come essi abbiano scandito, a intervalli decennali, le tappe del nostro cammino di […]