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EUROPEAN HISTORY

A data bank has been established to commemorate the main sites of the great conflicts that involved the European countries in the first half of the 20th century: the two world wars (1914-1918; 1940-1945) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The European project “Les chemins de la mémoire” is promoted by the “Memorial de Caen”, […]

On the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady to Bernardette Soubirous at Lourdes, a new website has been created: www.lourdes2008.com http://www.lourdes2008.com , which also includes (since 20 June) a version in Italian. Many Italians are interested in the Marian sanctuary at Lourdes: in May 2006 alone 171,010 Italians accessed the official website of […]

Scottish Catholics anti-Henry VIII: it’s not a joke but the initiative of Alex Salmond, leader of the second most important political party in Scotland, the Scottish Nationalist Party, who has seconded the positions of the local Catholic Church and asked Tony Blair to repeal of “Act of Settlement”, the British law that prevents Catholics from […]

With a communiqué released on 13 July, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, President of the German Bishops’ Conference, welcomed the position published by the German national Ethical Council on death and the relation with the terminally ill. “We approve the fact that the national Council, by condemning the instigation to suicide as ethically deplorable and rejecting every […]

“St. Benedict, monasticism and the Christian roots of Europe” is the theme of the course for students of theology to be held at the Benedictine abbey of Santa Scolastica at Subiaco (near Rome), from 28 to 31 August. Promoted by the national Office for social problems and work of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, the course […]

Catholic adoption agencies that each year find hundreds of families for orphaned or abandoned children could be discriminated against by proposed new legislation of the British government aimed at guaranteeing the rights of homosexuals. The Catholic Bishops of England and Wales raise the danger of possible discrimination in a document they have just delivered to […]

The annual meeting of spokesmen of the European Bishops’ Conferences will be held at Maynooth, in Ireland, from 20 to 23 July. Various questions are on the order of the day; they include the relation between “communication, Europe and Islam” and the “Catholic perspective of press freedom and respect for religions”. Theological and pastoral aspects […]

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Wars have succeeded each other in the Middle East for the last 58 years. Will the time perhaps come when we will have to speak of a Hundred Years’ War? Everything seems to suggest so; the situation seems hopeless. Indeed, for so many years all the peace initiatives in the region have failed: the hawks […]

EMILIA ROMAGNA

Rinnovare la normativa regionale per le cooperative. È questa l’intenzione della legge regionale 6/96, “Norme per la promozione e lo sviluppo della cooperazione mutualistica in Emilia Romagna”, approvata nei giorni scorsi dall’Assemblea legislativa emiliano romagnola. La Regione si pone l’obiettivo di sostenere “la conoscenza dei principi e della prassi cooperativa”, “la diffusione, l’accrescimento della cultura […]

Sull’attentato di Bombay, numerose le reazioni della stampa tedesca. Sulla Frankfurter Rundschau , Arnd Festerling osserva (12/7): “ Il terrorismo ha globalizzato i suoi metodi, indipendentemente dai terroristi e dai loro motivi . […] I terroristi mirano ai simboli, alle vene della società moderna, ai propri mezzi di trasporto. E misurano le proprie azioni in […]