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“The pledge made by Tony Blair to listen to the voice of the people with greater attention during his third term in office is an invitation to be taken seriously”, declared the Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, archbishop of Birmingham, in a post-electoral message to the faithful issued on 10 May (after the electors had confirmed […]

Weddings between gay persons are “a legal falsification of marriage”, declare the Spanish bishops in a statement issued by the Executive Committee of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference. The communiqué, published in recent days, has the title, “Conscientious objection to a radically unjust law that corrupts the institution of marriage”. “It is our duty – say […]

The German Bishops’ Conference has issued a statement on the proposal of the Senate in Berlin to insert education in values as a compulsory subject for all students in the school curriculum. The bishops say they are following these developments “with apprehension”. In their view, they would have the effect of “spelling the end of […]

A Spanish father, José Maria Arroyo Sanchez, has pilgrimaged on foot to the Sanctuary of Fatima, in Portugal, to pray for “medical research on multiple sclerosis”, the disease from which his daughter Maria Belén suffers. He left Talavera de la Reina on 2 May and is due to arrive in Fatima on 11 May. News […]

“Ireland is experiencing a crisis of culture rather than faith”, said the Most Reverend Seán Brady, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, in addressing the meeting between the Irish churches held in Cork, European capital of culture 2005, on 5/6 May. The ecumenical meeting forms part of a series started in 1972 as […]

The 60th anniversary of the end of the World War II has been commemorated not only by world leaders gathered in Moscow on 9 May (see SIR no.35/2005), by also by various local Churches in the countries of Europe. We report on the celebrations in Germany, Austria and Holland. GERMANY. With a joint celebration held […]

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The French daily Le Monde of 2 May published some significant extracts of a debate between the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and the Italian atheist philosopher Paolo Flores d’Arcais. (The contents of the debate were also reprinted in early May by the Italian bimonthly review MicroMega). That debate, which had been held in Rome on […]

“Save the Children”, la più importante Ong attiva nel settore dell’infanzia a livello mondiale, ha recentemente lanciato un appello all’Unione europea “affinché faccia di più per sconfiggere la povertà infantile”. Save the Children ha presentato presso il Parlamento Europeo un rapporto secondo il quale sono oltre 600 milioni i bambini al mondo che vivono in […]

La Banca centrale europea (Bce) ha presentato la settimana scorsa a Francoforte il Rapporto Annuale 2004. Se, in linea generale, la Bce esprime fiducia nei confronti di una graduale ripresa dell’economia europea, ferma restando la più volte sottolineata “insoddisfazione” per la salute dei conti pubblici di almeno la metà degli Stati membri, due sono gli […]

Il Collegio dei Commissari ha approvato per la prima volta un meccanismo procedurale volto ad assicurare la piena compatibilità delle proposte legislative future con la Carta dei Diritti fondamentali dell’Ue. Presentando il provvedimento alla stampa, il Presidente dell’Esecutivo Josè Durao Barroso ha sottolineato la “determinazione di ancorare saldamente alla legislazione europea la cultura dei diritti […]