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“Il Trattato costituzionale rappresenta una pietra miliare nella storia dell’integrazione europea”. È questa la conclusione cui giunge il nuovo documento della Comece (Commissione degli episcopati della Comunità europea, presidente il vescovo Josef Homeyer), “Il Trattato che adotta una Costituzione per l’Europa. Elementi di valutazione”, reso noto il 23 marzo a Bruxelles, che contiene la posizione […]

“ People are looking to him more than ever” is the title of the editorial in the Italian Catholic daily Avvenire (24/03), dedicated to the “ special Holy Week” of John Paul II, ever weaker in health and forced to engage in a silent dialogue of glances and gestures with the faithful who greet him […]

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The conclusions of the Luxembourg Presidency of the Union concerning the spring meeting of the European Council of Ministers are contained in a document of some forty printed pages. The European Council, meeting on 22-23 March, especially tackled economic questions. The heads of state and of government have already agreed to meet again in mid-June, […]

It’s the evangelising project with the greatest success in the Catholic Church of England and Wales, even if it originated in a Protestant church, the church of Holy Trinity, Brompton in London. “Alpha for Catholics” is a ten-weak programme, comprising one weekend during the course, which is composed of fifteen sessions in which the basic […]

Concerns about the growth of poverty and social exclusion in Europe have been expressed by Eurodiaconia and by the “Church and Society” Commission of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) in a letter to Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, under whose presidency the spring Summit of the European Union was held from 21 to […]

A week after the appeal of the Catholic Primate Murphy-O’Connor, who had asked Catholics to oppose abortion in the campaign leading up to the general elections on 5 May and make sure that the parliamentary candidates for whom they vote are in favour of life, the archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, head of the Church […]

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At the end of a six-day meeting at Camp Allen, in Texas, the “House of Bishops” of the Episcopal Church of the USA (ECUSA) almost unanimously adopted a final communiqué in which they accept the “provisional” measures that the Anglican Primates had asked for, i.e. to suspend for at least a year any episcopal election […]

The Scottish Bishops’ Conference has joined its own voice to that of the Catholic Primate of England and Wales, Cardinal Murphy O’Connor, who asked Catholics last week to turn abortion into one of the crucial issues of the electoral campaign for the general elections due to be held on 5 May (see SIR no. 21/2005). […]

The 28th European meeting of the youth animated by the Taizé Community is to be held in Milan at the end of the year. The announcement was made by the archbishop of the Lombard city, Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, speaking to the youth of his diocese during a prayer vigil held in the Cathedral on the […]

In spite of the fervent appeal of the Christian Churches, the Swiss Council of States approved a new law on asylum on Thursday 17 March. According to the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), “it is one of the most restrictive legislative acts in the whole of Europe and comes at a time when the […]