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If she wants to be credible in the eyes of youth, the Church of our time must overcome the temptation of the “small flock” and open herself to an “apostolate of open arms”, that focuses attention on the quality of interpersonal relations. Convinced of this is Msgr. Sergio Lanza , professor at the Pontifical Lateran […]

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“Any generation may be evangelized”… That’s the starting point of the reflections of Cardinal Godfried Danneels , archbishop of Malines-Bruxelles, on European youth, stressing their “life-styles” and describing the role of the Church as their “travelling companion”. Individualism. Young people suffer from “generalized individualism” in our age and seem “not to give any thought” to […]

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“Pick-and-mix”, that’s the life-style of many young people in Europe today, in post-modern Europe, says Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor , archbishop of Westminster and vice-president of the Council of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe (CCEE), in his report to the plenary session of the 10th Symposium of European bishops. Theme of the report: “Evangelizing the young […]

Exploiting the freedom to evangelize among the young after decades of repression, and “eliminating religious ignorance”, taking into account both traditional religious practice and the new languages to communicate the faith: these are some of the main objectives of the Hungarian youth apostolate. Before the collapse of Communism in 1989, attention to the young was […]

“Loss of values, depersonalization of individuals, superficiality, hedonism, escape from everything that means sacrifice, generosity, responsibility, suffering”: that’s how a youth group in the diocese of Istanbul sums up the “moral decadence” of society, a phenomenon of which “the majority of youngsters are not conscious”. “We young people of Turkey – the reflection continues – […]

Life needs to be turned to account, time donated, hope sown, God spoken of and Jesus Christ proclaimed in the Church: these are, according to the leaders of the youth apostolate of the Swiss Episcopal Conference, the aspects that may help reflection on the youth world. The basic question, affirm the Swiss bishops, is “how […]

Proposing to the young the faith in its totality, with a Christian experience based on tradition (sacraments, liturgy, catechesis, prayer) but also with “times, places and means” different from those used for adults: that is the attitude assumed by the Spanish Church to evangelize the young. The values it requires are especially those of “spiritual […]

The negative experience of the Communist regime and the atheism of the population, especially among the young, represents one of the most significant aspects of the religious experience in Slovenia. In spite of this systematic “atheist propaganda”, many remained faithful to the Church, especially because their faith was rooted in the family. Indeed, for many […]

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Da oggi, 24 aprile, fino al 28 si tiene a Roma il 10° Simposio dei vescovi europei, promosso dal Consiglio delle Conferenze episcopali d’Europa (Ccee), sul tema: “Giovani d’Europa nel cambiamento. Laboratorio della fede”. Al simposio partecipano 90 vescovi e 35 giovani, scelti dalle Conferenze episcopali e da alcuni movimenti. Dall’Albania all’Ucraina sono rappresentate tutte […]

1,5 milioni di cattolici per un totale di circa 9 milioni di abitanti. Sono questi i dati, raccolti in una recente indagine socio-religiosa, che fotografano la Bielorussia cattolica. Una presenza limitata forse, ma non insignificante se si tiene conto che in un recente passato in Bielorussia non era possibile frequentare le strutture ecclesiali. Il popolo […]