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In a letter to De Hoop Scheffer, Dutch Foreign Minister, the president of Pax Christi in Holland, Bishop Adrian van Luyn asks to know why the first Balkenende government gave its political, even if not military, support to the war against Iraq. News of the Pax Christi intervention was recently released by Katholiek Nederland, the […]

European Churches" "

“The mission of those who work at sea, on board ships, is extraordinary but often forgotten. I am aware that those who live on these ships are among the poorest persons and those most separated from their families. They deserve all our support, hospitality and care”. So said Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, president of the Bishops’ […]

The disabled" "

“The danger is that of remaining at the level of the head, whereas the whole mystery consists in putting the head in the heart and the heart in the head. It’s not enough to give fine speeches. We need to have an intelligence capable of transmitting itself to the other person. Communicating means transmitting a […]

gipsies" "

While the 5th World Congress of the pastoral care of nomads on “Church and gipsies, a spirituality of communion (cf. SirEurope nos 39, 43 and 47/2002) is in progress in Budapest (30 June-7 July), we present some “thoughts” and information on the world of nomads in Europe. “ The healing of memory: the Romanies and […]

What can be done to ensure that the fostering of vocations to the consecrated life and to the priesthood becomes a duty for everyone in the Church, and what is needed in normal pastoral care to ensure that the young hear the call of God? These are the questions at the basis of the annual […]

university and church" "

No to a university “subordinate to and dependent on” on the needs of production and the market. Yes to a university capable of restoring the “reasons for believing” to contemporary man, through a language endowed with “a profound cultural quality” but at the same time not abstract or “divorced” from the realities of daily life. […]

The Churches are concerned by social divisions, by the new poverty, by the lack of strong values, by the fragile international situation. They therefore renew their political and social commitment and their determination to accompany the process of the unification of Europe. The 12th Assembly of the KEK, which has just ended in Trondheim, in […]

ecumenism" "

“The Churches of a continent that is in the process of uniting itself cannot permit themselves to be divided”. So writes Orthodox Archbishop Christodulos of Athens and of all Greece in a statement addressed to the delegates of the Conference of the Christian Churches (CEC/KEK), gathered in recent days in Trondheim (Norway) for their 12th […]

editorial" "

The more elderly among us may perhaps have been reminded of Winston Churchill who, in the mid-twentieth century, summed up the differences between Italy and Great Britain by remarking on the antithetical qualities of their respective rulers and people. The uproar in the European Parliament that accompanied the start of the six months’ Italian presidency […]

rassegna stampa" "

“Gli Stati Uniti di fronte al rompicapo del dopoguerra”. E’ il titolo di apertura di La Croix (2/7), che dedica un dossier al problema della “ricostruzione” dell’Iraq. “Gli americani – si legge nell’occhiello a questo proposito – prendono coscienza che sarà più complessa e più lunga del previsto. Due senatori domandano alla Casa Bianca di […]