Redazione

At its first meeting, following its nomination in February, the Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), meeting recently at Bossey (Geneva), approved a programme of activities for the years 2007-2013. Six areas of activity were defined for the seven-year period: WCC and the ecumenical movement in the 21st century; unity, mission and […]

ECUMENISM

The Churches must play a pioneering role in the protection of the environment: that is the objective set at Stuttgart during an ecumenical meeting between theologians and ecological experts from Germany and Austria. The ecumenical meeting, held on 20-21 May, underlined the need to formulate and promote obligatory ecological standards for ecclesiastical institutions. Jobst Kraus […]

ENGLAND

“The priest of the stars”: that’s how the British tabloids have dubbed Father Michael Seed in recent days, splashing his photo on the front page. But he forcefully rejects any such title. So, the humble Franciscan, adviser for ecumenism of Catholic Primate Murphy-O’Connor and spiritual director of famous Anglicans who have converted to Rome, the […]

It was a visit full of symbolic gestures. A pilgrim in Poland, following in the footsteps of John Paul II, Benedict XVI stopped to commemorate the heroes of the insurrection of the Ghetto and of the Warsaw Rising in 1944, monuments of the tragic history of the Polish capital. Then the masses in Pilsudski Square […]

A constant invitation to preserve the gift of faith and to share it, through witness, also with other peoples of the world: this, in the view of the Archbishop of Warsaw-Prague, the Most Rev. S?AWOJ LESZEK G?ÓD?, is the key point of the apostolic journey made by Pope Benedict to Poland, from 25 to 28 […]

BENEDICT IN POLAND

With his visit to Poland, Benedict XVI won the adjective “our” that had been reserved for John Paul II since 1978. Four days were enough to conquer the hearts of the compatriots of his predecessor. For the Poles, a German Pope has become “their” Pope. Up to the last moment, before this historic visit of […]

FRONT PAGE

It was eagerly looked forward and desired, this visit of the Pope to Poland, with a packed programme of events, full of suggestions and gestures. And Benedict XVI had been explicit right from the start, offering a challenging message to the Polish nation: “Remain strong in the faith”. Right from the start he had explained […]

15,000 pilgrim’s rucksacks, prepared for the World Meeting of Families with the Pope (Valencia, 1-9 July), will be distributed by the 1st July. The first rucksacks of the Pilgrim’s “Pack” contain various objects, a T-shirt (in yellow and white, the colours of the Vatican and the official colours of the meeting), a baseball cap, a […]

SPAIN

Religious education in schools, yes, but not compulsory for everyone”: that’s the position re-stated in recent days by the spokesman of the Spanish bishops José Antonio Martínez Camino following the meeting of the mixed Church-State Commission on education, held in Madrid to discuss the LOE (Organic Law on Education) and aspects regarding the provision of […]

On Wednesday 24 May, Benedict XVI appointed as auxiliary bishop of Maribor Msgr. Peter Štumpf of the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco, hitherto parish priest of the parish of Mary Auxiliatrix in Ljubljana-Rakovnik at Ljubljana. Born at Murska Sabota in 1962, he took his first vows in the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco […]