POLITICA DI POTENZA

Alla Russia di Putin” “basterà la Crimea?

La crisi in Ucraina continua a svilupparsi secondo un percorso che mischia forme contemporanee e logiche ottocentesche di pura politica di potenza. Il Parlamento della Crimea ha votato a larghissima maggioranza il distacco dall’Ucraina, anticipando il referendum che si terrà il 16 marzo, in cui i cittadini della regione affacciata sul Mar Nero dovranno decidere […]

di Stefano Costalli

ASPETTANDO FRANCESCO

La domanda religiosa” “è diventata” “sempre più “selettiva”

In Italia tramontano le vocazioni, diminuiscono i battesimi, i matrimoni religiosi sono sempre meno diffusi e il numero delle scuole cattoliche va riducendosi. Sono i risultati del IX Rapporto sulla secolarizzazione in Italia, curato dalla Fondazione Critica Liberale e dalla Cgil-Nuovi Diritti. Franco Garelli, ordinario di sociologia all’Università di Torino, commentando i dati parla di […]

di M. Michela Nicolais

STRAPPO ANTROPOLOGICO

Via alle prenotazioni nel Regno Unito per i matrimoni gay

Via ai matrimoni gay nel Regno Unito. Da domani (13 marzo), infatti, le coppie che vogliono sposarsi appena possibile, ossia dal 29 marzo, possono inoltrare la propria richiesta. Entra in vigore, quindi, lo "strappo" legislativo voluto dal governo di David Cameron che, lo scorso luglio, ha aperto l’istituzione del matrimonio, fino ad oggi intesa come […]

di Silvia Guzzetti

CHURCHES IN BRIEF" "

Spain, Germany, Portugal

Spain, Bishops’ Conference plenary in Madrid The Spanish Bishops’ Conference (CEE) will elect its new president during the plenary meeting held in Madrid March 11-14. It is the 103rd meeting during which 2014-2017 posts are renewed. The bishops are called to elect the CEE President and vice-President, the governing board and the presidents and members […]

di Redazione

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, The Netherlands

Poland: the bishops on the family and the media During the plenary of March 12-13 the archbishop of Przemysl, president of the Polish Bishops’ Conference (KEP) Msgr. Jozef Michalik, will pass on the post (held for two consecutive mandates) to his successor who will be elected by the assembly. KEP spokesperson, father Jozef Kloch, pointed […]

di Redazione

THE WEB IS 25

The revolutionary algorithm ” “

The Web is 25. In the 1989 nobody started the day reading newspapers on-line, commenting friend’s pictures or surfing a weblog in order to get a solution for a problem. On the 12th March of that year, Tim Berners Lee, a computer scientist at CERN in Geneve, submitted to his supervisor a proposal to optimize […]

di Redazione

SPAIN

Life: a change in mentality

On March 25, feast of the Annunciation of our Lord, Spain celebrates the Day of Life. For the occasion the Spanish Bishops’ Conference Subcommittee for the Family and Life released a message titled: “Yes to life, source of hope amidst of the crisis”. But the question of the defence of life is not the concern […]

di Redazione

AHEAD OF THE SYNOD

The family: truth and welcome

“The reality of life in Europe testifies to and confirms the fact that in our Countries families’ situation is extremely serious”. Msgr. Jozef Michalik, President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference underlines the reasons why last week cardinals, archbishops, and bishops from Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slvakia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus and Poland) […]

di Redazione

EDITORIAL/2" "

Marriage, a “crafted” endeavour

In the Year of the Family, Pope Francis issued a “Letter to families”. A similar gesture was made by blessed John Paul II precisely 30 years ago, when he addressed world families with the letter “Gratissimam sane”. When compared, the two documents strikingly differ in terms of length. John Paul II wished to provide an […]

di Piotr Mazurkiewicz - Sir Europe (Poland)

EDITORIAL/1

The joy of the Gospel ” “The Gospel of joy

An organic review on Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a year since his election at the pontifical see, would take up the space of a whole book, which some are in the process of writing and others have already written. But that book would be always unfinished, after its publication it would have to be updated with […]

di Elio Bromuri