ANGLICANS

Controversy rages

It’s “inevitable” that “parts” of Islamic law would be adopted in the United Kingdom, also because this would help to maintain greater social cohesion between British and Muslim citizens. The words of Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, spoken during an interview on BBC radio, have opened up a veritable hornet’s nest in the UK. And […]

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ECUMENISM

Greece, Ukraine, Italy and Spain

Greece: messages to new Primate of the Orthodox ChurchThe World Council of Churches expressed “congratulations” upon the Holy Synod’s election of Metropolitan Ieronimos from Tebe and Levadia as the new archbishop of Athens and Primate of the Orthodox Church in Greece. In his message, WCC Secretary General Samuel Kobia wrote; “We confide that under your […]

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IRELAND

Balance and dream

To cut alcohol consumption by a third or better yet, to go teetotal: this is the challenge raised to young Irish by Dublin’s auxiliary bishop, Eamonn Walsh. The Episcopal Conference has produced a DVD entitled Find the balance, dare to dream that has been distributed to 875 secondary schools throughout the Republic and which is […]

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LENT

Germany, Austria, Croatia

Germany: meditation with podcast in Hamburg Lent with Podcast. Not only e-mail messages for Lent reflections. Starting on Ash Wednesday and until Easter, the archdiocese of Hamburg will give internauts the possibility to access brief statements by archbishop mons. Werner Thissen. In Germany they can be downloaded with Podcast. “I find this way of proclaiming […]

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Portugal, Austria, Poland

Portugal: clandestine abortion persistsJorge Branco, coordinator of the National Programme for reproductive health, declared in a radio interview with Radio Renascença (Rr) that “six months after the enforcement of the law on the depenalization of voluntary pregnancy interruption (Ivg), we still can’t state for sure that clandestine abortion has actually ceased”. “The number of pregnancies […]

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FRONT PAGE

The golden thread

The year that has begun possesses decisive elements for the future of the European Union. Slovenia took over the EU presidency at the beginning of the year, the first among the newer Member States to hold this office, and thus a source of great joy for all Europeans. This beautiful Country of just over two […]

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GERMANY: MGR. ROBERT ZOLLITSCH (FREIBURG), NEW BISHOPS’ PRESIDENT

The archbishop of Freiburg, mgr. Robert Zollitsch, is the new president of the German Bishops Conference. The new president, who replaces cardinal Karl Lehmann, bishop of Meinz and president for over twenty years, has been appointed for a six years’ term by the German Bishops during their spring plenary meeting in Würzburg. Born in 1938 […]

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GERMANIA: MONS. ROBERT ZOLLITSCH (FRIBURGO), NUOVO PRESIDENTE DEI VESCOVI

È l’arcivescovo di Friburgo, mons. Robert Zollitsch, il nuovo presidente della Conferenza episcopale tedesca. Il neopresidente, che succede al cardinale Karl Lehmann, vescovo di Magonza e presidente per più di vent’anni, è stato eletto per un periodo di sei anni dai vescovi tedeschi nel corso della loro assemblea plenaria primaverile a Würzburg. Nato nel 1938 […]

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IRAQ: DELEGAZIONE DI PAX CHRISTI INCONTRA IL CAPO DEL KURDISTAN

La delegazione di Pax Christi, costituita da 10 francesi e 2 italiani guidati dal vescovo francese Marc Stenger, in visita nel nord dell’Iraq, Erbil, Kirkuk, Dook e Zakho, dall’11 al 19 febbraio, ha incontrato, stamattina, il capo del Kurdistan Massoud Barazani. Erano accompagnati dall’arcivescovo di Kirkuk, vescovo di Amadiya e vescovo di Alkosh. L’incontro ha […]

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INGRID DE BETANCOURT: DOPO L’INCONTRO CON IL PAPA, LA MAMMA OGGI È STATA A LORETO

Un rapido rilascio "sulla base del dialogo, della pazienza e della comprensione tra le parti": è quanto auspica mons. Giovanni Tonucci, arcivescovo delegato di Loreto, che oggi ha incontrato in forma privata Yolanda Pulecio de Betancourt, madre di Ingrid (a suo tempo candidata alle elezioni presidenziali della Colombia, rapita nel 2002 dai guerriglieri delle Farc, […]

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