EUROPEAN UNION

Pros and cons

“The economic and monetary Union is a solid construction”, “an undeniable success”; “in a period of great uncertainty like this, in which the prices of energy and food are increasing, we need to congratulate ourselves on having at our disposal a single currency, based on a market that comprises 320 million people”, declared Joaquin Almunia, […]

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With a single voice

“A common foreign policy must lead to expand the sense of goodness among Europeans”. This was the conclusion of the analysis drawn by Father Henri Madelin in April’s issue of “Europe infos”, monthly magazine of Comece (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community) and Ocipe (Catholic information and intiative Office for Europe) introduced […]

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ecumenism

Children of the one Father

The exchange of greetings in St. Peter’s Square between Pope Benedict XVI and His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of all the Armenians, ended with a fraternal embrace, sealed by an Armenian song, before the start of Wednesday’s general audience. The Patriarch had arrived in Rome on Tuesday 6 May. He comes at […]

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Poland, England, Ukraine

Poland: “Templeton” award to cosmologist priest Michael Heller, a 72-year-old Polish priest and expert in cosmology, is the winner of the 2008 Templeton Awards. This was announced today, at a press conference in New York, by the John Templeton Foundation that created the award (820 thousand pounds) in 1973. Born in 1936 in Tarnow (Poland), […]

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Austria, Scotland, Germany

Austria: preventing is better than punishing”Prevention is much more effective than harsher punishment”, declared Msgr. Klaus Küng commenting the tragic case of incest in Amstetten. In an interview published May 3rd by the daily “Die Presse”, the bishop of St. Pölten underlined that in “cases of extreme wickedness such as this, the question is the […]

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Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, Slovenia

Bosnia-Herzegovina: preserving Christian roots The “love of our neighbour” is important “for the creation of world peace”. These were the welcoming words pronounced by the bishop of Kärnten Msgr. Carinzia Alois Schwarz, upon the arrival of a delegation from the Archdiocese of Sarajevo. The meeting, attended by His Eminence Cardinal Vinko Puljic, was held in […]

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A Bridge between peoples

In the framework of the recent trip of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, special emphasis was given to the pontiff’s visit to the UN glass building, which Ccee (Council of European Bishops’ Conferences) Secretary General Aldo Giordano reported on for Sir Europe.In this circumstance, we wish to recall the will of Peter’s successors […]

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ALLUVIONE IN MYANMAR: LA CEI STANZIA DUE MILIONI DI EURO

"La Chiesa italiana esprime vicinanza e solidarietà alle popolazioni del Myanmar che sono state colpite dalle drammatiche alluvioni che hanno interessato gran parte del Paese distruggendo villaggi e rendendo improduttivi i terreni, in particolare delle aree geografiche che ricadono nelle diocesi di Yangon, Pyay, Mawlamybe e Pathein provocando centinaia di migliaia di vittime e di […]

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FIERA DEL LIBRO: BETORI (CEI), "DARE VISIBILITÀ ALLA BELLEZZA DELLA PAROLA"

"I libri sacri non sono soltanto un contenitore di pensiero religioso ma una vera e propria letteratura, che affida la potenzialità del suo messaggio anche all’apprezzamento estetico che essa può suscitare nei lettori e negli uditori della Parola". Presentando oggi alla Fiera del Libro la nuova traduzione della Bibbia a cura della Cei, mons. Betori […]

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FIERA DEL LIBRO: BETORI (CEI), NUOVA TRADUZIONE DELLA BIBBIA "IN DIALOGO CON LA CULTURA" (2)

"Offrire un testo più sicuro nei confronti degli originali, più coerente nelle dinamiche interne, più comunicativo nei confronti della cultura contemporanea, più adatto alla proclamazione nel contesto liturgico". Questo, ha spiegato il segretario generale della Cei, l’obiettivo principale della nuova traduzione della Bibbia ad opera della Chiesa italiana, che aggiorna le due precedenti del 1971 […]

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