Austria, Romania, Italia

Austria: no a lezioni di etica a scapito della religioneNo alla lezione di etica a spese della lezione di religione: così Christine Mann, direttrice dell’Ufficio ecclesiastico per l’istruzione e la formazione, si è espressa nei giorni scorsi sulla proposta di introdurre nelle scuole una lezione di etica per tutti, che andrebbe a sostituirsi alla lezione […]

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PRIMA PAGINA

Rafforzare gli impegni

Pubblichiamo la lettera delle Conferenze episcopali dei Paesi del G8 ai responsabili degli stessi Paesi (Repubblica federale tedesca, Canada, Repubblica francese, Giappone, Federazione Russa, Regno Unito di Gran Bretagna e Irlanda del Nord, Stati Uniti d’America, Repubblica italiana) in occasione del summit in programma in Giappone dal 7 al 9 luglio.Con l’avvicinarsi del Summit del […]

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Eu in brief

Half of family income goes on housing and foodHalf of the income of European families is used to pay the costs for food and housing; transport costs are increasing while those for culture remain limited. But the differences between countries are considerable. This is conformed by Eurostat, with a publication on family income and investments, […]

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EUROPARLIAMENT

Religions, environment, health

This plenary meeting was marked by Ireland’s “no” to the Lisbon Treaty and by the approval of the “repatriation directive” for illegal immigrants. The EU Parliament’s plenary meeting in Strasbourg on June 16-19, was the occasion to anticipate the themes addressed during the forthcoming European Council (June 19-20). MEPs voted also in favour of Slovakia’s […]

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INFORMATION

The paper Europe

2007 was a strategic year for Europe: the effort to overcome the impasse following the rejection of the draft Constitution led to the Treaty of Lisbon, which redesigned a new scenario for the governance of the 27-member EU. Italian historian Paolo Pombeni’s recent book L’Europa di carta. Stampa e opinione pubblica in Europa nel 2007 […]

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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

An alarming right

“Every day I expect a Western Country to file a legal suit against the Church of Rome for not having granted priestly ordination to a homosexual or a woman”. The provoking statement was delivered by Nikolaus Lobkowicz, from the Catholic university of Eichstatt, Germany, during the meeting held in Amman, Jordan, past June 23-24 of […]

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SPAIN

In brief

Permanent bishops CommissionVarious issues were addressed by the Permanent Commission of Spain’s Bishops Conference, which in the past days celebrated in Madrid its 209th reunion. After having taken stock of the Pastoral plan and having reviewed the 2007 budget of the Common Inter-diocese fund, of the same Bishops Conference, and of its organisms and institutions […]

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GREAT BRITAIN

Scotland, Ireland, England

Scotland: no to euthanasia and to sexual relations between minors Cardinal Keith O’Brien, leader of Scotland’s Catholic Church, will appear on a BBC television channel next week while he tries to convince a famous Scottish politician not to put an end to her life. Margo MacDonald, MP since 1973, in 2002 revealed she is affected […]

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Austria, Romania, Italy

Austria: no to ethics lessons to the detriment of religion “No” to ethics lessons that go to the detriment of religion lessons. This claim was voiced a few days ago by Christine Mann, director of the Church Office for Education and Formation regarding the proposal to introduce an ethics lesson for everyone in schools, which […]

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FRONT PAGE

Honouring commitments

We publish the letter sent by the Bishops’ Conferences of the G8 countries to the governments of their respective countries (German Federal Republic, Canada, French Republic, Japan, Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America and Italian Republic) on the occasion of the summit scheduled to be held in […]

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