COMECE

Plenary, family, bioethics

Autumn plenary and new headquartersFrom 3 November the Commission of the Episcopates of the European Community (CEMECE) will have a new seat in Square de Meeûs 19/1, again in Brussels (like its former offices). It will be inaugurated during the autumn plenary (12-14 November). Preceded by the European Catholic Pastoral News Service (Sipeca 1976-1980), COMECE […]

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CCEE

Unity in diversity

From 1st to 4th October 2009, Paris will host the next plenary assembly of the Council of the European Bishops Conferences (Ccee). The news has been announced at the press conference in Esztergom/Budapest, where the 2008 assembly ended, by card. Peter Erdõ, president of Ccee and primate of Hungary. “These moments of study and discussion […]

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FRONT PAGE

On the path of Isaiah

Transmitting not the mask, but the image, indeed the reality: that, in substance, is the plea that the Council of the European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE), through the mouthpiece of its President, Cardinal Peter Erdö, makes to the media when they inform on the life and thought of the Church in Europe.It’s a plea that is […]

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COUNCIL OF EUROPE

No to all violations

“The Council of Europe must not refrain from criticizing and condemning what it views as a violation of our principles and values”. In the introductory remarks delivered during the Plenary of the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), held in Strasbourg September 29-October 3rd, President Lluis Maria de Puig, dwelt into the crisis in the Caucasus, that was […]

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EUROPEAN COMMISSION

A Good “Package”

The European Commission proposed a package of measures “aimed at improving work and family life balance” on October 3. The EU Parliament and Council will now discuss both proposals in co-decision procedure.Longer maternity leaves. The “package” of proposals envisaging longer and better maternity leave also for self-employed women, aim to improve and update EU legislation […]

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ENGLAND

For a “just” home

Housing is presently undergoing the most serious crisis since the times of Mrs.Thatcher. Bank repossessed property has increased by 24% since the owners can no longer afford to pay the mortgages. This has brought 45000 families to be stripped of their homes while bank loans dropped by 71%. It is virtually impossible to find a […]

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LUXEMBOURG

A question of life

“Don’t take away hope!” this is the title given to the statement issued on October 2 by Msgr. Fernand Franck, archbishop of Luxembourg. The document illustrates the position of Luxembourg’s Church vis à vis the debate over euthanasia, that gained primary attention in the Country. In fact, on February 19 2008 the parliament drew up […]

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EPISCOPAL SYNOD: ANNOUNCING IN SAINT PAUL’S STYLE. A HOMILETIC DIRECTORY (3)

This morning’s session pointed out the need to make the Scriptures more accessible to the devotees, making their translations simpler. Exegetes and theologians are called to join forces and scan the Holy Scriptures – they said –, but only in the Eucharistic celebration is the unity of the Word truly revealed. The issue of the […]

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EPISCOPAL SYNOD: ANNOUNCING IN SAINT PAUL’S STYLE. A HOMILETIC DIRECTORY (2)

The Word renews consecrated life, they highlighted, but consecrated life too renews the Church, through the apostolate of the Word, some examples of which are Rome’s Istituto Biblico or the Franciscan Institute of Jerusalem. The Word must challenge and convert the mind and the will, and it is like a part singing, in which tradition […]

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EPISCOPAL SYNOD: ANNOUNCING IN SAINT PAUL’S STYLE. A HOMILETIC DIRECTORY

God’s Word must be announced in Saint Paul’s style, and those who announce must be not only informative but, as recently recalled by Benedict XVI, performative. In addition, a homiletic directory might help. These are some of the cues that have come to the fore today, on the second morning of the Episcopal Synod on […]

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