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The Taizé Community’s 27th Youth Meeting will be held in Lisbon. Helping to prepare the welcome of the tens of thousands of youngsters from all over Europe expected to attend it are a group of Taizé Brothers and an international team of young volunteers; they have been busily at work since mid-September. The 27th European […]

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Violence does not take place “outside” our daily life, our schools, communities and families. “We have to live with this violence every day, we suffer it, we are eye-witnesses of it”. So Christians must commit themselves to becoming promoters of “social links” wherever they live their daily life. The point was made by Jean-Arnold de […]

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With a solemn ceremony, the International Congress for the New Evangelization opened in Paris on Saturday 23 October. The congress will continue till 1st November, All Saints, and include a series of some 450 events: liturgies, lectures, round tables and special initiatives aimed at the young, students and children. The idea of promoting a congress […]

The debate and controversies that have been raging in recent days about the role and presence of Catholics in Europe have brought back to centre-stage the question of the “marginalization” of religious faith within the Twenty-Five. As the day draws near for the signing of the European Constitutional Treaty (Rome, 29 October), have Christians the […]

“Prisoners of time”: that’s the title of the editorial dedicated by Bruno Frappat ( La Croix, 20/10) to Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, the two French hostages kidnapped in Iraq two months ago. Frappat reflects on the so-called “collateral effects” of the war, and notes that the two hostages have been “ transformed into objects […]

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The recently published Windsor Report invites Gene Robinson, the homosexual bishop consecrated last November in the Episcopalian diocese of New Hampshire (USA) and those who participated in his ordination to resign, requests a suspension of gay marriages and urges dioceses favourable to homosexual pastors and bishops to express regret. Irish Primate Robin Eames presented the […]

“The rosary, like the crucifix, seems to have become a fashion accessory for the young. Nonetheless, unlike the crucifix, it can be purchased in shops selling religious articles and not in jewellery stores” and “some retailers of religious merchandise have expressed concern about the fact than many purchasers seem to be ignorant of its religious […]

“I am deeply upset after reading the report on the activities of the British advisory Service on pregnancy, published in recent days, which suggests that the Service performs part of its activity by helping women to obtain an abortion even after the limit of 24 weeks, even after the 26th week or later still”. The […]

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“Even the crew of a merchant ship must now live with the fear of a terrorist attack on the planet’s most crowded navigation routes. Terrorism and violence seem inevitable” and “this may cause discouragement”, but “even if we are not always able to understand it, we must have the certainty that this is God’s world […]

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Over 81,000 reports of acts of violence were registered in secondary schools in France in the 2003-2004 school year: a 12% increase over the previous year. Most of the violence took the form of “physical violence without weapons” (29.2% of the total, or 23,754 cases), followed by “insults and grave threats” (24,7%, 20.082 cases), and […]