Redazione

POLONIA

“La legge della clava è oggi più attuale dal Vangelo delle beatitudini”. Lo ha affermato Zygmunt Bauman invitato a partecipare al IV Congresso della cultura cristiana svoltosi a Lublino, in Polonia, dal 27 al 30 settembre. Per il sociologo e filosofo di origini ebraiche, la dignità dell’uomo è oggi uno dei valori più minacciati. La […]

EDITORIALE

Desta comprensibile preoccupazione l’annuncio dato dal ministro della Giustizia francese, Christiane Taubira, al quotidiano cattolico “La Croix” di presentare alla fine di ottobre un progetto di legge che contiene una sostanziale modifica della definizione del matrimonio e della genitorialità. Nel concreto, questo progetto, facendo cadere la differenza tra uomo e donna, aprirebbe al matrimonio tra […]

CHIESE IN BREVE

Portogallo: trasmissione del messaggio cattolicoIn un’intervista rilasciata all’Agenzia Ecclesia, il presidente della Commissione episcopale della Missione e della Nuova evangelizzazione, mons. António Couto, ha affrontato le problematiche legate alla trasmissione della fede, sottolineando l’importanza del messaggio originario di Gesù: “La colpa non va imputata tanto alle persone che non vogliono ascoltare, ma è soprattutto attribuibile […]

CRISTIANS IN EUROPE

On October the second ‘Seminar on discrimination against Christians in Europe’ was held in Brussels. The meeting is promoted by COMECE in conjunction with the European Conservative and Reformists (ECR) and the European People’s Party (EPP).A growing phenomenon. The seminar started with a question: "What is the relationship between liberal democracy and freedom of religion?" […]

ROBERT SCHUMAN

A year under the banner of lay holiness that matures and is shaped with service in the social and political environments: the Saint-Benoît Patron de l’Europe Institute has inaugurated on September 29 the "Robert Schuman Year". The Institute was established to promote the beatification cause of the "father" of Community integration, whose fiftieth "dies natalis" […]

THE LAICITY OF THE STATE

"Religions should be asked to refrain from imposing the norms of their communities upon the rest of the population" and "to learn to distinguish the sphere of religious rights from civil rights. However, we should oppose the tendency to extend State laicity to society as a whole". It is an excerpt of the Conference by […]

UKRAINE

Follows the interview with the Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych, head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC), His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, on the spiritual aspects of the challenges faced by Ukrainian society. The next issue of SIR Europe will feature an interview with Msgr. Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki, president of the Ukrainian Roman-Catholic Bishops’ Conference. Both interviews are […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

Portugal: transmission of the Catholic message In an interview released by the news agency Ecclesia, Msgr. António Couto, president of the Bishops’ Commission for Mission and for New Evangelization, addressed the problems linked to the transmission of the faith, underlining the importance of Jesus’ original message. "It isn’t the fault of those who refuse to […]

EDITORIAL

The announcement made by the French Minister of Justice, Ms. Christiane Taubira, to the Catholic newspaper “La Croix” of submitting, by the end of October, a bill containing substantial changes in the definition of marriage and parenthood, arouses an understandable concern. Practically speaking, this bill, by eliminating the difference between man and woman, would pave […]

POLAND

"La law of the bludgeon is more topical than the Gospel of the Beatitudes", said Zygmunt Bauman, invited to take part in the 4th Congress on Christian culture, held in Lublin, Poland, September 27-30. For the sociologist and philosopher of Jewish origin, human dignity is currently running very high risks. Post-modern society is marked by […]