BENEDICT XVI: OPENING MASS FOR THE SYNOD, "WITHOUT GOD, MAN IS LONELIER" (2)

"Therefore, it becomes essential – commented Benedict XVI – for the Christians of all continents to be ready to respond to anyone who asks for the reason for the hope that is in them, announcing God’s Word with joy and living the Gospel without compromises". Hence the invitation "to question ourselves together, during the next […]

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BENEDICT XVI: OPENING MASS FOR THE SYNOD, "WITHOUT GOD, MAN IS LONELIER"

"Only God’s Word can deeply change the heart of man, and it is important then for the believers and the communities to become increasingly intimate with it". It was said yesterday morning by Benedict XVI in the Eucharistic co-celebration, in the church of San Paolo fuori le Mura, to mark the opening of the XII […]

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LIGURIA

Sostegno e prevenzione

Un provvedimento per tutelare le famiglie separate: è la legge regionale “Sostegno dei genitori separati in situazione di difficoltà” che è stata approvata il 29 settembre all’unanimità dal Consiglio regionale della Liguria. Lo scopo è aiutare i genitori a conservare l’autonomia economica e a condurre un’esistenza dignitosa, garantendo le condizioni per poter svolgere appieno il […]

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CCEE: CARD. ERDÕ, "SHARED PASTORAL ATTENTION TO THE GROWTH OF EUROPE"

(From SIR Europa’s correspondent in Esztergom – Hungary) – 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 today at the press conference in Esztergom/Budapest, where the 2008 assembly has just ended, by card. Peter Erdõ, president […]

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SPAIN: "THE RIGHT TO LIVE", AN APPEAL TO WRITE TO ZAPATERO AGAINST ABORTION

"Sending thousands of emails to Prime Minister Zapatero, asking him to include abortion in his request for a worldwide moratorium on death penalty". The initiative, aimed at involving all Spanish citizens who have life at heart, starts from the "The right to live" platform, launched by the association HazteOir.org (www.hazteoir.org) for the right to life […]

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FAMILY: PACKAGE OF EU MEASURES FOR A WORK/LIFE BALANCE

A package of measures "to find a better balance between professional and family life": this is the initiative that was launched today by the European Commission, which will now be submitted (joint decision procedure) to the EU Parliament and the EU Council. The "package" contains some proposals – revising EU Directives and aiming to create […]

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CCEE: CARD ERDÕ (PRESIDENT), "UNITY IN DIVERSITY IN THE EUROPEAN CHURCHES"

(From SIR Europa’s correspondent in Esztergom – Hungary) – "If we have to denounce some misinformation, sometimes fairly serious, about the Church, we must add that the Church does not suffer from self-pity and responds responsibly, proposing on one side a specific training of the media operators and on the other side the consolidation of […]

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BENEDICT XVI: AUDIENCE WITH THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

Ever-increasing "commitment to growing in holiness and proactively partaking of the mission of the Church". This was asked by Benedict XVI of the members of the Board of Governors of the Knights of Columbus, who are in Rome for their traditional pilgrimage. The Pope recalled that this "was the view that inspired the Knights of […]

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BENEDICT XVI: ‘NO’ TO CONTRACEPTION (2)

In this case, "the knowledge of women’s natural fertility cycles becomes important for the life of the married couple. Observation methods that enable a couple to determine fertility periods enable it to manage what the Maker has skilfully inscribed in the human nature, without disrupting the full meaning of sexual donation. In this way, the […]

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BENEDICT XVI: ‘NO’ TO CONTRACEPTION

"An action that aims to prevent procreation means denying the intimate truth of married love, with which God’s gift is communicated": today, Benedict XVI has repeated the ‘no’ of the Church to contraception in a message to the head of the Papal Institute "Giovanni Paolo II", mgr. Livio Melina, who, along with the Catholic University […]

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