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COMECE

The Most Rev. ADRIANUS VAN LUYN , bishop of Rotterdam, is the new President of COMECE (Commission of the episcopates of the European Community). A member of the Salesians, Van Luyn has headed the Dutch diocese since 1993. He will lead COMECE for the next three years, flanked by two Vice-Presidents: the Most Rev. DIARMUID […]

The plenary assembly of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference opened in Madrid on 27 March. Until 31 March the bishops will resume their reflection on the new Law on techniques for assisted reproduction, already the object of a Statement put out by permanent Council of the episcopate on 9 February, under the title “In response to […]

“Women theologians: in what Europe?” is the theme of the 1st international conference promoted by the Coordination of Italian Women Theologians (CTI), due to be held in Rome on 30 March and 1st April 2006, under the auspices of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. 150 women theologians from 20 European countries, representing various […]

During a press conference held in Vienna on 24 March, Monsignor Klaus Küng, national delegate for the pastoral care of the family, presented the new “directives for Catholic health-care structures”. Also present at the press conference were the moral theologian Walter Schaupp and a number of directors and consultants of Austrian hospital structures. The Austrian […]

This year’s Pro-Life Week in Germany will be held from 29 April to 6 May on the theme “Entrusted to us from the beginning: human life begins before birth”. Promoted by the German Bishops’ Conference together with the Council of the Evangelical Church (EKD), the Week forms part of a wider programme, begun in 2005 […]

THE NEW CARDINALS

Welcoming addresses, blessings and prayers punctuated the audience granted by Benedict XVI to the newly elected cardinals, together with their friends and family members, in the Vatican on 27 March. During the audience, which concluded the three-day Consistory, the first of his pontificate, Benedict XVI welcomed the new cardinals one by one, and expressed his […]

A year after his death John Paul II will be remembered in the archdiocese of Bucharest on 2nd April with a solemn mass officiated by the Metropolitan Archbishop Ioan Robu. On the same day, special celebrations to commemorate his life and pontificate will be held in all the parishes. In Bucharest some parishes are organizing […]

“A loving grandfather who takes an interest in all the members of his family”: that’s the image of John Paul II that remains indelibly lodged in the memory of Msgr. Georges Marovitch, spokesman of the Turkish Bishops’ Conference. His thoughts go back to the time when John Paul II visited Istanbul (28-30 November 1979), or […]

“A great celebration in the cathedral church of Belgrade on Sunday 2 April to pray to the Lord, a year after the death of John Paul II, that he may bless our country and help it to overcome the problems that still afflict it”: this is one of the two main events – explains Archbishop […]

JOHN PAUL II

The diocesan phase of the process of beatification of John Paul II was concluded on Saturday 1st April. A solemn mass was concelebrated in Krakow Cathedral on Sunday 2 April, the anniversary of his death, with a Via Crucis through the streets of the city in the evening. These were the central events in the […]