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Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, visited Romania last week, to receive an honorary degree from the “Babes-Bolyai” University in Cluj-Napoca. During his Romanian visit, the Vatican representative met with Patriarch Teoctist, of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The presence of Cardinal Kasper in Romania aroused a good […]

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The Council of the Christian Churches in France (CECF) issued a communiqué on Monday 24 May, appealing to voters to participate in the European elections and in the public debates that precede it. The communiqué is signed by its three co-chairman, one Catholic, one Protestant and one Orthodox. Pastor Jean-Arnold de Clermont (Protestant Federation), Msgr. […]

Young seminarians, priests, religious, deacons and those in consecrated life with less than 15 years or ordination made a pilgrimage on foot from Verviers to Banneux, in Belgium, on 21 May. The pilgrimage was organized by the French-speaking bishops of the country, coordinated by Msgr. Leonard, of the national Centre for vocations. The aim was […]

The countdown has begun in Switzerland for the arrival of the Holy Father, who is due to celebrate an open-air mass for the first national meeting of Catholic youth in the Grossen Allmend park, in Bern, on Sunday 6 June. Meanwhile work is busily proceeding on the erection of the huge dais. It’s a construction […]

A new Concordat has been signed between the Holy See and the Republic of Portugal. The signing ceremony took place in the Vatican on 18 May. Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Secretary of State, and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Portugal, José Manuel Durão, were present. The new Pact replaces the one signed on 7 […]

“Cherishing Life”: that’s the new document, a hundred pages long, that the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales is due to publish on 26 May. Like “The Common Good”, published in 1996, this new document too will review the social doctrine of the Church and express the point of view of the Bishops on […]

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Issued in February, the first draft (green book) of the translation of the Ordo Missae was subjected to the scrutiny of all bishops in the English-speaking world (11 Bishops’ Conferences). The new Ordo Missae is supposed to replace the missal currently in use (adopted in 1974) in January 2005. Many bishops in England and Wales, […]

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“Here the very concept of parish, which still retains its value in Italy, risks becoming meaningless. The possibility that this situation may also affect our own country in the near future should not be ignored”. That’s the stark but courageous analysis of the situation of the Church in Brussels made by Italian Father Angelo Lanfranchi […]

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“Christians in the construction of Europe”: that was the title of a meeting held in Vienna on 20-21 May. It was attended by 400 representatives of the organized Catholic laity in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The meeting formed part of the first Katholikentag (Catholic congress) of Central Europe that culminated in the […]

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The MEKT – the Central European Katholikentag (Catholic Congress), ended at Mariazell, in Austria, on Sunday 23 May. Promoted by eight Episcopal Conferences (Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary), the “pilgrimage of peoples” that concluded the MEKT was attended by over 80,000 pilgrims. The participating Episcopal conferences drew up a joint […]