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Heated exchanges characterized the debate at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, gathered in plenary session in Strasbourg from 25 to 29 April. The chamber rejected a draft resolution “on the accompaniment of terminally ill patients”, behind which a form of veiled acceptance of euthanasia was glimpsed. The document, which would have had […]

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“Without well-informed reflection and constructive input by all the interested parties including the Church and Christian circles, there is a danger than an equilibrium between the three pillars [of the Lisbon Strategy] will not be observed and that unfettered economic ambition will become the central driving force in EU policies”, warns the General Secretary of […]

The “Catholic Bible for Youth” runs to 1,730 pages. It is a version of the Bible in Spanish, produced in partnership between Spain and America to give a response to the many requests of the young. “The Bible will help you to evaluate the Catholic tradition; it will give you encouragement in difficulties and help […]

The bishop of Rottenburg, Msgr. Gebhard Fürst, has commented on the Council of Europe’s rejection of the Marty Report on euthanasia, at Strasbourg on 27 April (see Sir no.33/2005). “In this way the majority of parliamentarians have prevented a weakening of the position of rejection, hitherto adopted by the Council of Europe, on the question […]

With a communiqué issued on 29 April, the Swiss Bishops’ Conference has pronounced on the referendum due to be held on 5 June, in which citizens will be called to express their approval of, or opposition to, a federal bill that would legalize homosexual couples. Recalling their own position on the matter, the bishops emphasize […]

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John Paul II died at 21.37 on 2 April 2005. SIR commemorates him in the words of Thomas Jansen , spokesman for European policy of the Central Committee of Catholics in Germany, the homeland of his successor Josef Ratzinger, elected with the name of Benedict XVI, who will make his first foreign trip to Germany, […]

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In a brief essay on the concept of future in a theological perspective Karl Rahner wrote that the future is not something towards which we are heading, something that in the first place we can build with our plans or projects, but is something that comes towards us. We must relate to the future with […]

L’Europa e la ratifica della Carta europea sono al centro dei commenti della stampa tedesca. Sulla Frankfurter Rundschau (27/4), Brigitte Kols scrive di “ sogno europeo” e commenta “ L’allargamento dell’Ue è un progetto nella miglior tradizione europea: integrazione per garantire la pace e con l’obiettivo della stabilità sociale. Questa stabilità è tuttavia minacciata, poiché […]

I Commissari Ue all’ambiente (Stavros Dimas) ed alle relazioni esterne (Benita Ferrero-Waldner) hanno presentato congiuntamente settimana scorsa a Bruxelles due documenti contenenti una serie di nuove proposte che mirano a predisporre e rafforzare le strutture di intervento europee in caso di calamità naturali, emergenze e disastri. Secondo Ferrero-Waldner, “dopo lo tsunami c’è bisogno per l’Ue […]

Il Commissario europeo responsabile per la libertà, la giustizia e la sicurezza Franco Frattini ha presentato un progetto per l’armonizzazione a livello comunitario delle procedure per la richiesta di asilo politico. La proposta dell’Esecutivo – che è sul tavolo da qualche mese ma che fatica a trovare l’accordo in Consiglio dei Ministri – parte dalla […]