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Il “cuore della Gmg”, ossia le proposte spirituali offerte dalla Gmg del prossimo agosto sono state presentate ieri da don Ulrich Hennes, segretario della Gmg, durante una conferenza stampa svoltasi nei giorni scorsi a Colonia. Il Centro spirituale, le catechesi, il pellegrinaggio al duomo e il Centro della riconciliazione sono i principali punti del programma […]

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“Il ‘no’ francese ed olandese richiede discernimento sulle responsabilità dei politici e dei cittadini stessi. Questo voto è in effetti multiplo. Non si può di conseguenza dedurne un rifiuto assoluto del progetto europeo”. Lo dichiara mons. Noël Treanor , segretario generale della Comece, la Commissione degli episcopati della Commissione europea, a commento degli esiti negativi […]

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La politica europea e la Chiesa si domandano come mai il Trattato costituzionale europeo non sia una risposta ai bisogni dell’odierna Europa e sia diventato un problema. Possiamo ipotizzare che il rifiuto in Francia e in Olanda esprima un disaccordo con il suo contenuto e una mancanza di fiducia verso l’ultimo allargamento dell’Unione europea alla […]

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The main events involving the Catholic Church, the other Christian Churches and the main institutions of Europe in June 1 Referendum on the European Constitution, in the Netherlands. 5 Federal referendum on the legal recognition of homosexual couples, in Switzerland. World Environment Day. 6 Meeting of the Catholic Oriental Churches of Byzantine rite (6-11), on […]

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“The French and Dutch ‘no’ requires discernment about the responsibilities of politicians and of citizens themselves. This vote is in effect many-sided. We cannot deduce from it an absolute rejection of the European project”, says Msgr. Noël Treanor , general secretary of COMECE, the Commission of the episcopates of the European Community, commenting on the […]

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European policy and the Church ask themselves why the European Constitutional Treaty is not a response to the needs of contemporary Europe and has become a problem. We can surmise that the rejection in France and in Holland expresses a disagreement about the content of the Constitution and lack of confidence in the latest enlargement […]

A trend to a “bipolar development” between “Islamism and Euro-Islam” can be observed among Muslims living in Europe, said Father Hans Vöcking, expert on Islam, in his address to the 6th Symposium on Globalization, which ended in Vienna on 6 June. Vöcking said that the 10-16 million Muslims currently living in the old continent are […]

Interconfessional Via Crucis, meetings and moments of dialogue for students of theology, days of social commitment and ecumenical pilgrimages: these are just some of the events on the programme of Word Youth Day in Cologne (15-21 August), which is becoming increasingly characterized by its ecumenical contents. This is especially the case this year due to […]

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Two years after the ecumenical Kirchentag of the Churches of Berlin, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the German Bishops’ Conference and Evangelical Bishop Wolfgang Huber, chairman of the Council of the German Evangelical Church, have newly emphasized the aspects held in common between their Churches. The occasion for their joint declaration was the Congress of […]

The laity could soon have enormous new responsibilities within the Catholic Church, from taking charge of the parishes to responsibility for religious services: according to a plan presented in recent days by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Primate of the Catholic Church of England and Wales, in the diocese of Westminster many of the traditional tasks of […]