Redazione

Heartfelt gratitude for his service and dedication to the renewal of the Catholic Church in Ukraine was expressed by Benedict XVI to Cardinal Marian Jaworski, archbishop of Lviv of the Latins, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday. The Pope’s telegram of congratulations was read out at the start of the solemn mass that the Cardinal […]

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path”: that is the motto chosen by Benedict XVI for the fourth meeting of the Catholic youth of Russia which was held in the region of Moscow at the end of July, in the year dedicated by the Church to the Bible. […]

RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

“Responsibility for what the young generations learn about Christ and Christianity from films, books and music depends entirely on us”, and today “the lack of knowledge and a degraded system of values are at the roots of the contemporary situation”, declared Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, in an appeal to priests, men and women religious and laypeople […]

An appeal to “make public one of the most precious and confidential secrets, that of faith in Christ, is the aim of the national campaign entitled “Dying to live… for the cause of the Gospel”, launched in recent days by the Catholic Church of England and Wales, through its agency CASE (Catholic Agency to Support […]

“Every two years some 6000 priests suffer various forms of violence”: that’s the conclusion of a research project conducted by the University of London in England. Entitled “Violence against Professionals in the Community”, the survey especially targeted priests of the various Christian confessions, in particular Catholics and Lutherans. Its findings have been published in the […]

A revival of religion in the programming of the BBC: that’s the objective of Michael Wakelin, the new head of the department dedicated to God by state television in the UK. Appointed in June, Wakelin is a 45-year-old Methodist preacher who produced the extremely popular BBC series “Songs of Praise”, a programme of religious choral […]

ENGLAND

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Primate of England and Wales, has announced that the festivities of Epiphany, Ascension and Corpus Christi will no longer be celebrated during the week, but shifted to Sunday. In Catholic schools these feast days have always provided an opportunity to explain to children some of the most important mysteries of the Catholic […]

FRONT PAGE

On 11 September 2001 the world crashed. Just over ten years previously, in November 1989, the Berlin Wall had fallen. Our planet then seemed reunified. And in some sense it was. The terror attack to the very heart of America showed that clearly. People can no longer live far from the global capitalist market and […]

Si avvicina l’appuntamento del Convegno ecclesiale nazionale di Verona (16-20 ottobre 2006) e nelle diverse realtà ecclesiali coinvolte nel cammino preparatorio si dà spazio alle sintesi propositive. Proponiamo una sintesi del lavoro svolto all’interno di due realtà aggregative: il Movimento dei Focolari e l’Unione cattolica artisti italiani. Alla ricerca di “vie nuove”. Una “mission” poliedrica, […]

Continua, nelle 226 diocesi italiane, il cammino di preparazione al IV Convegno ecclesiale nazionale, in programma a Verona, dal 16 al 20 ottobre, sul tema: “Testimoni di Gesù Risorto, speranza del mondo”. Un anno di “relazioni”. “Vivere la fede nell’affettività e nelle relazioni”. È il tema attorno a cui la chiesa di Udine è chiamata […]