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“Re-appropriating our origins in order to look to the future with greater creativeness”: that is the Benedictine aspiration. On the eve of the signing of the European Constitutional Treaty that will sanction a further turning point in the political history of the Old Continent, after that of enlargement on 1st May, an appeal to this […]

“The rich testimony of the life and writings of St. Augustine is still of great relevance for contemporary society”, said the archbishop of Vilnius, Cardinal Audrys Backis, on inaugurating the recent international congress dedicated to the great bishop of Hippo and Doctor of the Church on the occasion of the 1650th anniversary of his death. […]

Over a hundred delegates attended the first meeting in Parliament to celebrate the results achieved by Catholic education in recent days. The participants included headmasters, teachers and representatives of the Catholic Association of Teachers, representatives of the Department for Education and Training of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, and Kerry Pollard, MP and […]

Victory has been claimed by the party of President Ibrahim Rugova, the “Democratic League” (just over 45% of the votes), in favour of the independence of Kosovo, which has a large Albanian majority. But the victory was only achieved at the heavy price of the almost complete abstention of the Serb minority, which is keeping […]

As every year, the Spanish community gathered in recent days in the church of the Holy Saviour, in the Christian quarter of Jerusalem, to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Pilar. Present at the rite were the Consul General of Spain, José María Ferré, and other members of the Consulate and of International Cooperation. […]

An appeal to the Catholics of England and Wales to campaign against euthanasia by omission had been made by Archbishop Peter Smith, delegate for bioethics of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, and by the Standing Committee of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. A few days before the parliamentary debate on the […]

The German Episcopal Conference has reaffirmed a clear rejection of any form of cloning of human embryos. On 20 October – on the eve of the resumption of consultations on a cloning ban at the level of the United Nations scheduled from 21 October on – the German bishops issued an appeal, signed by their […]

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The episode involving the Commission-designate and the European Parliament in recent days, apart from all the controversies it has caused and the shadow it has cast over the ceremony of the signing of the Constitution, has much to teach the direct protagonists, the European politicians and the citizens who feel themselves participants in the laborious […]

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“Europa, non dimenticare i tuoi martiri”: questo il titolo del simposio internazionale organizzato dalla fondazione austriaca Pro-Oriente, svoltosi a Vienna il 21 e il 22 ottobre. All’incontro hanno partecipato numerosi rappresentanti delle Chiese cristiane e dell’ebraismo, che si sono confrontati sul significato del martirio ai fini della fede e del dialogo ecumenico. “I muri tra […]

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“Riappropriarsi delle origini per guardare al futuro con maggiore progettualità”. Alla vigilia della firma del Trattato costituzionale europeo che sancirà un’ulteriore svolta nella storia politica del Vecchio Continente, dopo quella dell’allargamento del 1 maggio scorso, dall’abbazia di Montecassino, fondata da San Benedetto, patrono d’Europa, giunge l’invito a non dimenticare “da dove siamo partiti”. “Non vogliamo […]