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An international conference on “Ethics of life with a Christian perspective” was held in Bratislava (Slovakia), in early October. Promoted by the episcopal conferences of Slovakia, Austria and Hungary as part of the Central European Katholikentag, the conference was preceded by a symposium organized for Slovak members of parliament on “The contemporary family, bioethics and […]

The first Marian Congress in Bulgaria took place in Sofia on 11 October. Held under the auspices of the Focolare Movement, it had as its title: “Jesus through the eyes of the Virgin Mary”. It’s the first time that such an official event has been held and it attracted wide confessional support: Orthodox and non-believers, […]

Intervening at the ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the Austrian Institute for Marriage and the Family, held in Vienna on 8 October, bishop Klaus Küng, head of the commission for the family of the Austrian Episcopal Conference, spoke of the importance of the family and current social trends, such as cohabitation […]

The Catholic Church of Moldova is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its establishment. Thanks to John Paul II, it was founded on 28 October 1993, with the initial erection of the Apostolic Administration of Moldova, the subsequent nomination of a bishop, in the person of Msgr. Anton Cosa, in 2000, and the creation of the […]

Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the German Episcopal Conference, handed over the Catholic award for the media in recent days. The annual award, now in its first year, went to Regina Buckreus and Gert Krautbauer for their reportage “Gregoire’s List” on the life of the mentally disabled in Africa and to Karla Krause for a […]

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“It’s not only the women’s associations that ought to denounce such violence. It’s not just a female campaign: we must act together, men and women, to reconstruct the future of those who have been abused in body and soul”. The words are those of Dominique Jacquemin-Mangé, general secretary of Catholic Action for women in France […]

“Catholics comprise 83% of the population of Slovenia. There are three dioceses, Koper (Capodistria), Ljubliana and Maribor, subdivided into 803 parishes, grouped together in 60 deaneries; 188 parishes don’t have a priest of their own. There are 1,022 priests (0.6 for every thousand Catholics) but only 8 permanent deacons. There are considerable differences between the […]

“Each age is characterised by obstacles that make the task of evangelization difficult, but each age also constitutes fertile ground for the Word of God. Today it is in the cities that the most challenging questions are encountered, and it is there that the search for the right balance between the person and the community […]

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We continue our report on the experiences and projects of parish communities in European cities, large and small (the first part of our report was published in SirEurope 68/2003). Bulgaria, a “multinational” community. The parish of St. Joseph in Sofia is the only Catholic parish of Latin rite in the Bulgarian capital. Here communities of […]

The members of the Social Affairs Commission of COMECE held a meeting on “Reflections from the viewpoint of social ethics on solidarity in the European Union and the debate on the future financial prospects of the EU” on 4-5 October. We present a memorandum issued at the end of the meeting. The issue discussed over […]