PRIMA PAGINA

La terrificante parola

Solo il fungo spunta improvvisamente, però ci vuole l’acqua e l’umidità, nelle stagioni secche ben pochi funghi sfondano il terreno ed emergono alla luce.L’orrore di quella notte, detta “Notte dei cristalli”, fu ampiamente preparato, con l’acqua dell’antisemitismo, della propaganda hitleriana, nella violenza delle coscienze.L’avanzare del nazionalsocialismo nel cuore dell’Europa si prospettava martellante: il 17 agosto […]

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SURVEY OF IDEAS

Spanish laity

In Spain, considering “the dilemmas presented to the Church by political stances that are extremely distant from the ‘positive laity’ recently revived by President Sarkozy – but which is an important feature in policies’ development throughout a number of European Countries – could easily trigger a pessimistic forecast of Church-State relations”, declared Antonio Pelayo, ecclesiastic […]

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EU news in brief

Russia is the third EU-27 business partnerEconomic relations between EU-27 and Russia are progressing steadily: import-export trade increased three-fold from 2000 to 2007, while a positive trend is registered also in the area of services and direct investments. Eurostat released the data on the eve of the EU-Russia summit to be held in Nice (France) […]

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RELIGIONS AND CULTURES

Cyprus in the limelight

“Placing Cyprus in the limelight”: Marco Impagliazzo, President of the Community of Sant’Egidio, interviewed by SIR Europe, described it as a main reason for the twenty-second edition of the meeting of religions and cultures in dialogue, held November 15-18 in this Mediterranean Island. The event – co-organized with the Orthodox Church of Cyprus – will […]

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ECUMENISM

Protestants-Orthodox, Anglicans-Catholics, Serbian Orthodox Church

Protestants-Orthodox: a Conference on baptismProtestants and Orthodox theologians and bishops convened in Vienna on October 30-November 1 for a consultation on “Baptism in the life of our Churches”. The highlights of the meeting – co-organized by the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and by the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE) – were reported […]

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FRANCE

Threat or hope?

“Religions, threat or hope for our societies?”: that’s the theme that will be discussed by the 4000 participants at the 83rd Semaine Sociale of Catholics in France, due to be held at the Congress Centre in Lyon from 21 to 23 November. This year’s session will be attended by various European guests, including a large […]

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COMECE

How to emerge from crisis?

The “constitutional” crisis triggered by Ireland’s referendum in June, the Russia-Georgia conflict, “the dramatic financial crisis” whose economic, social and political repercussions “can be barely imagined”: these, declared in November 12 in Brussels Msgr. Adrianus Van Luyn, President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) in his opening remarks to […]

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Portugal, Poland, Ireland

Portugal: “a new style of Church”Inaugurating the plenary assembly of the Portuguese Bishops’ Conference (CEP) at Fatima on 10 November (until the 13), Mgr. Jorge Ortiga recalled the words spoken by the Pope to the Portuguese bishops last year, during their visit ad limina apostolorum: “At the start of this assembly we need to think […]

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FRONT PAGE

The dreadful word

Only mushrooms sprout unexpectedly, but it takes water and humidity. In the dry season, very few mushrooms break through the soil and surface to the light. The horrors of that night, called “Kristallnacht”, had been carefully prepared, with the water of anti-Semitism, of Hitler’s propaganda, in the violence of consciences. The progress of Nazism through […]

di Cristiana Dobner discalced Carmelite

CASO ENGLARO: COMUNICATO PRESIDENZA CEI

Pubblichiamo il testo integrale del comunicato diffuso questa sera dalla presidenza della Conferenza episcopale italiana (Cei) sul responso definitivo delle sezioni unite civili della Corte di Cassazione, che hanno dichiarato inammissibile per "difetto di legittimazione" il ricorso della Procura di Milano sulla vicenda di Eluana Englaro, autorizzando così la sospensione dell’alimentazione e dell’idratazione della giovane […]

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