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“Se una grande coalizione è in grado di trovare un accordo su pochi punti quali la lotta alla disoccupazione, la salvaguardia dei sistemi sociali e la riforma del federalismo, e le riforme venissero decise davvero su base consensuale, anche la società darebbe la sua approvazione”: lo ha affermato il 10 ottobre mons. Reinhard Marx, vescovo […]

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È in corso in Vaticano dal 2 al 23 ottobre l’XI Assemblea generale ordinaria del Sinodo dei vescovi su “L’Eucaristia: fonte e culmine della vita e della missione della Chiesa”. Pubblichiamo alcuni stralci dei primi interventi dei padri sinodali europei. GIOVANI. “Sinceramente credenti e ben formati culturalmente” ma con “forte difficoltà a comprendere il senso […]

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“I wish to go and try to fulfil myself in Europe” says an adolescent from Cameroon. What prompts an African youth to leave his own homeland to emigrate to a Western country? Father Ludovic Lado, writing in the fortnightly Italian Jesuit review “La Civiltà cattolica” of 17 September, analyses “the African image of the West” […]

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“Transmitting. Sharing values, encouraging freedom”: that’s the theme of this year’s “Semaines sociales” (Social Weeks), an important annual event in the life of the Catholic Church in France, due to be held this year in Paris, at the headquarters of the CNIT (National Centre of Industries and Technologies, at the heart of the quarter known […]

“Where two or three are gathered in my name” (Matthew 18:20): that’s the motto chosen this year by the Churches of Ireland – at the request of the international committee composed of the World Council of Churches and the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity – for the Week of Prayer for Christian […]

“Forced marriages and those between adolescents represent grave and recurrent violations of the fundamental principles contained in the Charter of the United Nations and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and it is scandalous that they be justified by invoking respect for the culture and tradition of certain communities”. That’s the warning made in […]

“Eu-Palestine cooperation after the withdrawal – Towards a solution based on two States”: that’s the title of the Communication to the European Council and Parliament adopted by the Commission last week; see the EU website for external relations: In issuing this document the aim of the Executive is to “implement a mid-term global strategy to […]

Ensuring access to drinking water, basic healthcare and nutrition: these are the main motivations that have prompted the Office for Humanitarian Aid of the European Commission (ECHO) to allocate an emergency supplement of 6 million Euro for the victims of the conflict in Nepal and for refugees from Bhutan. In particular, 4 million have been […]

Eurostat, the Statistics Office of the European Commission, published its Report “Poverty and social exclusion in the 25-member EU” in early October. The data, referring to the year 2003, present a situation in which 72 million (equivalent to 16%) European citizens are “at risk of poverty”, i.e. earn less than 60% of the average income […]

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The 11th ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops is now in progress in the Vatican. It opened on 2 October and is due to end on 23 October. It is devoted to “The Eucharist: source and culmination of the life and mission of the Church”. We publish some passages from the first interventions […]