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To mark World Tourism Day – to be celebrated on 27 September – twelve Catholic diocesan museums in Germany between Munich and Paderborn will be open for visits to enable the public to discover their cultural riches. “Travel and transport” is the theme chosen for this year’s Tourism Day, which was established 26 years ago […]

“For the passion demonstrated in the field of the media and for his dedication to communicating the Gospel in this field”: with this motivation the bishops of Switzerland have awarded Jean-Luc Ballestraz the Catholic prize for Communication 2005, now in its eleventh year. Born in Grône, second of eight children, Ballestraz suffers from a pituitary […]

On 20 September, in its opening session, the plenary assembly of the German Bishops’ Conference, meeting in Fulda, confirmed Cardinal Karl Lehmann, bishop of Mainz, as its President for a further six years. Cardinal Lehmann has served as President of the Bishops’ Conference since 1987; having succeeded Cardinal Josef Höffner, archbishop of Cologne, he has […]

A million euros to help the victims of the fires that ravaged the country this summer have been made available by the Fundaçao Gulbenkian and assigned to Caritas and to other aid organizations. The beneficiaries will be the families most seriously affected by the fires, to contribute to their survival, the reconstruction of their homes […]

The National Eucharistic Congress, concluding the Year of the Eucharist, was held in Budapest, in the square and cathedral of St. Stephen, on 17 September. Some 4000 faithful arrived from 14 dioceses to participate in an event rich in stimuli, prayer, adoration and cultural programmes. Families, religious, priests and lay communities bore witness to the […]

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Each year in October Catholics are invited to pray, reflect and act on the universal mission of the Church. It’s important that during this month the emphasis of each pastoral and personal activity be placed on this theme. Throughout the world, and therefore also in Europe, the Christians of the Catholic Church are called to […]

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Simon Wiesenthal, known as the “Nazi hunter”, died at the age of 96 in Vienna on 20 September. Among the first to commemorate him was the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn: “in the complex work of researching the horrors of the extermination of the Jewish people – said the cardinal – Wiesenthal always strove […]

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“The power of dialogue, opposed to the monologue of power, is what best contributes to Christian witness”. The final message of the 6th Congress of Christian lay associations of Europe, promoted by the St. Adalbert Foundation, is all dedicated to the importance of and urgent need for dialogue. Held at Gniezno (Poland) from 16 to […]

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Immigrants are not a problem: in the Scandinavian countries, where the Catholic component forms a small minority (in the five states followers of the Church of Rome generally do not exceed 5% of the population), they become a “resource”: the point was made by the Bishops of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland, who recently […]

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“To the Germans and the Poles it shall never again be permitted to direct their own spiritual and material force against each other. Their duty, rather, is to devote themselves to the common good of all the peoples of an increasingly integrated Europe and to the reinforcement of her Christian identity”: the point is forcefully […]