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“Il Natale sfida la nostra cultura secolarizzata. L’immagine del Bambino nella mangiatoia, guardato da Maria e Giuseppe, ci spinge dall’impulso allo shopping alla meraviglia di una nuova vita che nasce”. È quanto scrivono i vescovi della diocesi di Clogher (Irlanda) mons. Michael Jackson, della Chiesa di Irlanda e mons. Josef Duffy, della Chiesa cattolica, in […]

“Clean up your computer campaign”, ovvero, “Campagna per ripulire il tuo computer”, è l’iniziativa lanciata da Cafod, la charity cattolica di aiuto ai Paesi del Terzo Mondo in occasione del Natale. Cafod ha, infatti, scoperto che le famiglie britanniche spenderanno quest’anno circa un miliardo e mezzo di sterline, oltre due miliardi di euro, in computer […]

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“Sembra impossibile essere capaci di inventare una celebrazione laica del Natale, senza riferimenti religiosi, invece è già una realtà”. È la constatazione di mons. Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, arcivescovo di Pamplona-Tudela e vicepresidente della Conferenza episcopale spagnola, in una lettera pastorale resa nota il 13 dicembre a commento di un diffuso atteggiamento di “laicismo” nei confronti […]

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Anno importante, questo che si sta concludendo, per l’Europa e per l’Unione Europea. L’allargamento a 25, la firma del Trattato costituzionale, la decisione di avviare i negoziati per l’adesione (non prima del 2014) della Turchia, altre adesioni balcaniche già fissate, dalla Romania e Bulgaria alla Croazia, disegnano un quadro impegnativo. Alle porte dell’Unione la crisi […]

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The 25 member states met in Brussels on 16-17 December for the EU summit, to which the Turkish premier was also invited. The summit gave the go ahead to negotiations for the membership of Ankara, but once again a Community emerged that is split on issues of internal and external policy. Moreover, a serious debate […]

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“Europe represents our future; it promises a future of peace in our land, and the free cohabitation of Turks, Kurds and Armenians”. The last few weeks have been hectic for ALI DOGAN , Kurdish ethnologist at the University of Montpellier, in France. General Secretary of the Centre of Research and Action for Human Rights in […]

JANUARY 10-13: JERUSALEM – Visit of the delegates of the European episcopates, in solidarity with the Holy Land. The secretariat coordinating the event is c/o the secretariat of the English Bishops’ Conference (Rev. David Ryall) FEBRUARY 3-6: CHARTRES (PARIS, FRANCE) – Joint CCEE/CEC Committee. Central theme of discussion will be the 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly […]

“Europe is experiencing a moral crisis of civilization” that is leading her to “demographic suicide”. That’s the analysis of George Weigel, American biographer of the Pope (and author of ‘Witness of Hope’), who recently spoke in Rome at a meeting organized by the Pontifical Gregorian University. He is considered one of the most authoritative commentators […]

In Italy the Supreme Court of Appeal has given the go-ahead to five referendums on assisted procreation. The five petitions have been admitted by the court’s central office for referendums. Now it will be the Constitutional Court that will be called to convene a hearing in camera by 20 January and rule by 10 February […]

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Thirty years after the introduction of the law that authorizes abortions in France, their number has remained stable. This is revealed by “Le Monde” in an article in recent days: each year some 200,000 voluntary interruptions of pregnancy are practised in France, just as at the end of the Seventies. Instead of expressing concern about […]