ECUMENISMO

Una nube di testimoni

Si è concluso con un messaggio indirizzato a tutte le Chiese cristiane il simposio “Una nube di testimoni: opportunità per una commemorazione ecumenica” che si è tenuto nei giorni scorsi presso il monastero di Bose (Italia), per iniziativa della comunità monastica e della Commissione Fede e Costituzione del Consiglio ecumenico delle Chiese (Cec). Al fine […]

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Austria, Italia, Irlanda

Austria: migliori politiche familiariUn pacchetto di richieste alla politica per sostenere le giovani famiglie è stato presentato il 2 novembre a Vienna dall’Associazione delle famiglie cattoliche austriache (Kfo). Il programma degli interventi proposti si basa principalmente su un incremento annuale costante delle prestazioni finanziarie alla famiglia, sgravi fiscali e miglioramenti per quanto riguarda i fondi […]

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PRIMA PAGINA

Dalla notte all’alba

“L’europeanizzazione dell’Europa. L’identità culturale dell’Europa nel contesto del processo di integrazione” è il titolo della tesi di dottorato di padre Piotr Mazurkiewicz, nuovo segretario generale della Commissione degli episcopati della Comunità europea (Comece). L’elaborato trattava della “europeanizzazione” dell’Europa e metteva in evidenza l’importanza fondamentale dell’identità culturale europea nel processo di integrazione. Oggi questa tematica si […]

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ENLARGEMENT

The right direction

The march of the Balkans and of Turkey towards the European Union continues. A number of countries, that include Croatia and Macedonia, “step up their pace”, while others, Turkey in particular, “still ought to implement a number of reforms”. However, the path leading to adhesion is open to all.Enlargement “is good” for the EU. On […]

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barack obama

A new deal

Those who questioned the world bearing of the election of the President of the United States, on November 4th were proved wrong. President-elect Barack Obama, the first White-House bound “Afro-American” (according to his self-definition), was congratulated from all corners of the world.A new deal for a new world. “We need a new deal for a […]

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drugs

Global war

Europe is having to combat a powerful criminal business. The long black hand of the trafficking and pushing of drugs has overreached national frontiers and geographical boundaries, and is increasingly characterized as a complex and multi-faceted phenomenon. The merchants of death, who sell moments of ephemeral pleasure, in exchange for death, are becoming ever more […]

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drugs

Changing for the worse

Cannabis remains the drug most “consumed” by Europeans (a quarter of the adult population has used it at least once in their life), followed by so-called “stimulating” substances such as amphetamines, ecstasy and cocaine. The risk of heroin, on the other hand, is not diminishing. These are just some of the findings of the “2008 […]

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comece

The pillars of culture

“In Europe there are more faithful than we expect”, Michael Kuhn wrote in the October issue of “Europe infos”, the monthly publication of COMECE (Commission of the Bishoops’ Conferences of the European Community) and of OCIPE (Catholic Office of Information and Initiative for Europe), with an op-ed by Stefan Lunte and an information sheet by […]

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ECUMENISM

A “cloud” of testimonies

The symposium “Una nube di testimoni: opportunità per una commemorazione ecumenica” (-A cloud of testimonies: opportunities for an ecumenical commemoration-) was closed with a final statement addressed to all the Christian Churches. The meeting was held in the past days at the monastery of Bose (Italy) on the initiative of the monastic community and of […]

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Austria, Italy, Ireland

Austria: better family policiesA package of requests to the political authorities to support young families was presented by the Association of Austrian Catholic families (KFO) in Vienna on 2 November. The proposed programme of interventions is mainly based on a constant annual increase of financial services for families, tax breaks and improvements in terms of […]

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