Redazione

Una regolamentazione collettiva per tutti gli immigrati presenti nel suolo svizzero. A chiederlo è Kornelius Koch, cappellano dei rifugiati che ha inviato una lettera circolare a tutti gli uffici parrocchiali svizzeri. Con questa presa di posizione, il cappellano appoggia la protesta di una ventina di rifugiati senza regolare permesso di soggiorno che hanno occupato gli […]

Diciotto tra ragazzi e ragazze di età compresa tra i 18 e i 26 anni, provenienti da ogni parte dell’Austria, partiranno nel corso di questo e del prossimo anno come volontari alla volta dell’Africa e del continente latino-americano. Su iniziativa dell’Associazione “Jugend eine Welt” (“Giovani per un mondo unito”) e dei Salesiani di Don Bosco, […]

On the occasion of his recent visit to the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, of Canterbury, George Carey, reopened the question of intercommunion. We asked English Catholics what they think of the matter “Only a priest ordained according to the criteria dictated by the Catholic Church can administer the sacrament of the Eucharist” and “the […]

Refusing to carry out abortions or sterilizations on grounds of conscientious objection involves punitive forms of discrimination against doctors i n various European countries. We have gathered some of their experiences Conscientious objection must be “respected by everyone, especially by legislators”. Meeting a group of Catholic doctors in Rome, on the margins of their international […]

Detailed report of the ACS (Aid to the suffering Church) on the violations of religious freedom in the world, including Europe What is the situation in Europe regarding “religious freedom”? An answer to this question is provided, in the form of an extensive section of fact-files dedicated to the old continent, by the book “Report […]

“For the first time John Paul II is visiting an Orthodox country without the agreement of the political authorities”. That’s how Le Monde (24-25/6) hails the Pope’s journey to the Ukraine, calling the destination of the Pope’s last apostolic “mission” a “religious powderkeg”. “This visit – comments Henri Tincq – is taking place at a […]

The 29th Kirchentag, the major annual meeting of the German Protestant Churches, was recently held in Frankfurt. We publish a report on the event and the impressions of some of its participants The fourth time for Frankfurt, the first for a German Chancellor since 1987. 100,000 participants, but many last-minute guests swelled the ranks. 2500 […]

The 29th “Day of the German Protestant Church”, which was characterized by many aspirations and appeals for Christian unity, ended with the desire for the deeper communion in the field of ecumenism that theology and liturgy still do not permit. In this regard, Helga Trösken, Protestant pastor, called it “scandalous” that “the deepest schism” should […]

“ Communicating the Gospel in a changing world”: that is the title of the Pastoral Guidelines of the Italian episcopate for the first decade of the new millennium…”. “taking a realistic look at the context in which we are called to offer our witness”: that is how Card. Camillo Ruini, President of the Italian Episcopal […]

Speaking recently in Berlin, the representative of the Catholic aid organization Misereor, Josef Sayer, criticised the policy of support for the developing countries implemented by the German Federal government. “Chancellor Schroeder, together with other heads of government, had openly committed himself last September to halving the number of poor people in the world by 2015”, […]