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Il fortissimo bisogno di spiritualità della nostra epoca che “solo un ritorno alle più pure radici cristiane riesce a soddisfare”, già dimostrato dal successo del programma “The monastery”, “Il monastero”, mandato in onda dalla Bbc nel maggio dello scorso anno, verrà confermato da una nuova serie intitolata “The Convent”, “Il convento”. Nel programma, che andrà […]

Un corso di formazione gratuito on-line per imparare a creare un sito cattolico per il web. L’iniziativa promossa dall’associazione Webmaster cattolici italiani (WeCa) presentata al convegno nazionale dei direttori e dei collaboratori degli uffici diocesani per le comunicazioni sociali, titolo “Comunicare speranza”, svoltosi ad Ancona nei giorni scorsi. Il corso è tenuto da docenti dell’Università […]

Dalla Spagna la proposta di mettere a disposizione, in ogni parrocchia, una sala dedicata alla “comunicazione creativa” dove usare le nuove tecnologie (computer, Internet, video, mp3) ed “evangelizzare nel cyberspazio”: viene dal giovane vescovo ausiliare di una diocesi del nord di Spagna, Oviedo, mons. Raúl Berzosa, che suggerisce alle parrocchie di mettere a disposizione delle […]

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Six priority sectors of intervention and a score of concrete actions: that’s what is proposed by the European Commission with its Green Paper on energy policies presented in Brussels last week. The Green Paper, which now passes to the scrutiny of the European Council and Parliament, is a channel of inter-institutional debate, also open to […]

The Anglican Community risks schism on the question of homosexuality, declared Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury and theological leader of the Church of England, during an interview he gave in Khartoum, in Sudan, where he is currently visiting some aid programmes. According to the archbishop, an internal division of the Communion could require decades to […]

From 12 to 19 March, groups of Christians of various confessions and from over 12 nations, members of Pax Christi International and the Christian Youth Union (UCDG-YMCA), will participate in a Week of common action for peace in Palestine and Israel, promoted by the World Council of Churches (WCC). From Oslo to Cape Town, from […]

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It was the Pope in person who notified the offices concerned of his own decision to remove the title of “patriarch of the West” from the list of papal titles in the Pontifical Yearbook (the Annuario Pontificio) for 2006. Though Benedict has not explained the reasons for this decision, staff at the statistics office that […]

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10,000 at Owerri, 7,000 at Nairobi, 5,000 at Abidjan: these are the “numbers” of African university students who recited the Rosary with the Pope, thanks to satellite link-ups with African university campuses. Last Saturday, 11 March, African students were thus able to join with their European brethren in “celebrating” BENEDICT XVI , in his first […]

A Foundation to study the history of the Hungarian Church during the post-war Communist regime has been established by the Hungarian Bishops’ Conference. In their spring assembly (7-9 March) the bishops approved the statutes of the public Foundation “Ödön Lénárd” (named after the religious Ödön Lénárd, who died in 2003, the priest long held in […]

“Support for marriage and the family is a fundamental aspiration of the Church”, said Bishop Küng, who heads the episcopal office for the pastoral care of families, during the study day of the Austrian Bishops’ Conference, held at Sonntagberg in Austria on 13 March, and dedicated to just this question. The main topics discussed during […]