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“The greatness of man is knowing how to say no, at any cost, to what is utterly unacceptable”, such as anti-semitism and racism. That’s the message that the Council of the Churches of France has spelt out to the country in a joint statement written to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the […]

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The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (18-25 January ended yesterday. This year its theme was: “Christ, the one foundation of the Church” (1 Cor 3: 1-23). The ecumenical event followed a few months after the 40th anniversary of the promulgation of the Decree of Vatican Council II ‘Unitatis redintegratio’, a key text, said John […]

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Eucharist: “the Church lives by this mystery. But the Christian community is invited, in this Year of the Eucharist, to gain a heightened awareness of it with a more heartfelt celebration, with a prolonged and fervent adoration, and with a greater commitment of brotherhood and service to the least of our fellowmen. The Eucharist is […]

“With the wave of apostasies in the second half of last year, the crisis of the Church in Austria has been overcome”: that’s the view of the Austrian pastoral theologian Paul Zulehner, who took part in recent days in some television and radio programmes. “The record number of apostasies is the latest effect of the […]

As part of the celebrations of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which ended on 25 January, an ecumenical service was held in Utrecht Cathedral on Sunday 23 January. It was dedicated to the victims and survivors of the tsunami in Asia. The Dutch ecumenical movement invited “not only the Christian churches, but the […]

Prayer for Christian unity “is not an accessory of, but an essential condition for ecumenical work”, declared Cardinal Friedrich Wetter, archbishop of Munich and Freising, on participating in the ecumenical service held in the Evangelic-Lutheran church of St. Matthew in the Bavarian capital during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. “The unity of Christians […]

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“The memory of the Germans of the crimes committed in the concentration camps is different and must remain different from the memory of other peoples and groups, especially that of the victims. Despite that, the fact that today, ever more often — and even in the place itself of the atrocities – it is possible […]

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Edith Stein: holy martyr and Jewish sister, killed, presumably on 9 August 1942, in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, was declared co-patron of Europe by JOHN PAUL II on 1st October 1999, who explained his decision as follows: ” Declaring Edith Stein co-patron of Europe today means placing on the horizon of the Old […]

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I come from an ordinary British family, with a relatively poor social and economic background. That is far from the world of our royal family. They probably know very little of my world, and I certainly know almost nothing of theirs, except that they are frequently the focus of press and media attention. What we […]

The number of forged euros withdrawn from circulation in the 12 countries that adopted the single currency is increasing, but the figure remains modest in comparison with the scale of the pre-single currency phenomenon. The anti-fraud Office of Brussels (OLAF) has published the data on forged currency: 2,339 coins were withdrawn in 2002, the year […]