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The Primate of the Irish Church, Archbishop Sean Brady, announced on 13 March that the Catholic bishops of Northern Ireland – meeting for their general assembly at Maynooth – have declared their total willingness to investigate suspected cases of paedophilia involving priests and religious. Since 2005, with the publication of the document “Our Children: Our […]

The strongly felt need for spirituality in our time, which “only a return to the purest Christian roots can satisfy”, was already demonstrated by the success of the TV programme “The Monastery”, transmitted by the BBC in May last year. It will now be confirmed by a new series along similar lines called “The Convent”. […]

A free online training course to learn to create a Catholic website has been promoted by the Italian Catholic Webmasters Association (WeCa) and presented to the national meeting of directors and staff of diocesan offices for social communication, under the title “Communicating hope”, held in Ancona in recent days. The online course has been designed […]

From Spain has come the proposal that every parish should be equipped with a room dedicated to “creative communication”, a room where the faithful could use the new technologies (computers, Internet, videos, mp3) and “evangelise in cyberspace”: the idea is the brainchild of the young auxiliary bishop of a diocese in northern Spain, Oviedo, Monsignor […]

Two weeks entirely dedicated to the principles of fair trade: the Fairtrade Fortnight is a project launched by fifteen Catholic dioceses of England and Wales which from Monday 13 March are promoting small markets and food-tasting sessions to promote products from the developing countries. Some of these local churches, such as Southampton, Portsmouth, Arundel-Brighton, Brentwood, […]

The community of students of Sofia was able to follow the Pope’s meeting with university students in the Paul VI Hall in Rome on 11 March, thanks to a satellite link up which also enabled other European student centres in Munich, Dublin, Lyon, St. Petersburg and Freibourg to share in the event. The icon of […]

“A country that is still very poor, with grave structural problems at the levels of public finance, energy and employment, but that is trying to ‘grow’, also following what has now become a significant presence of foreign companies that have begun in recent years to invest, open affiliates and hire local personnel in the country”: […]

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A signal also for Europe is being sent out from Rome. We don’t know whether it is already possible to call it historic, but undoubtedly the visit of a Jewish delegation to the mosque and the invitation to repeat this visit soon in the synagogue seem like a light suddenly lit up in the darkness […]

È stato presentato a Novara il 14 marzo il programma nazionale del progetto Passio 2006 della stessa diocesi piemontese, che approfondirà il terzo ambito del Convegno ecclesiale di Verona, quello della fragilità umana. La tematica farà da sfondo a una serie di iniziative che si svolgeranno nella diocesi novarese, dal 24 marzo al 7 aprile, […]

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All’inizio di febbraio, presso l’ospedale “Salesi” di Ancona, sono avvenute le prime tre interruzioni di gravidanza utilizzando la Ru486, meglio conosciuta come “pillola abortiva”: è stata la stessa struttura ospedaliera a darne pubblicamente notizia. A differenza di Torino, dove è stata intrapresa la strada della sperimentazione, lo staff ospedaliero ha deciso di procurarsi la pillola […]