EU COMMISSION

Less growth and more risks

It’s a matter of faith and appetite. The appetite of investors decreases, discouraged by the instability of financial markets; the faith of consumers increases together with employment. If we read between the lines of The Financial Forecasts for the Fall, the document presented last week by the Commission, we will discover that beyond the numbers, […]

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Germany: an ecumenical day in 2010

The 2010 Ecumenical Church Day was one of the topics discussed during the fall plenary session of the Bishops Conference of the diocese of Frisinga, which ended on November 8. The Ecumenical event of 2010, which will take place in Munich, intends to show the way “in which Christians, despite all differences, conceive their service […]

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Russian Patriarcate: a gift for the Pope

On Wednesday November 7, at the General Audience in Saint Peter’s Square Pope Benedict XVI met with Archbishop Innocent of Chersonèse, ordinary of the parishes of Moscow’s patriarchates in Western Europe. The archbishop donated to the Pope the French translation of the recently-issued “Foundations of social doctrine” by the Russian Orthodox Church together with the […]

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Taizé: father Alois in Asia

Thailand, China, Indonesia, Cambodia. These are the Asian stopovers undertaken these days by frère Alois, new prior of the ecumenical community of Taizè, in his “pilgrimage of faith on earth” before participating in the European meeting which will bring together tens of thousands of young people in Geneva at the end of the year. Yesterday […]

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ECUMENISM

WCC: the Global Christian Forum in Nairobi

On November 6-9, 240 world representatives of Christian denominations, gathered in Limuru (Nairobi, Kenya) to attend the Global Christian Forum. The meeting – promoted by the World Council of Churches following the initiative launched in the 1990s by pastor Konrad Raiser – went under the topic “Our pilgrimage with Jesus Christ the reconciler”. The WCC […]

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ENGLAND AND WALES

The will to change

Seventeen-hundred young people from the United Kingdom’s twenty-two dioceses; thirteen youth organizations represented and fifteen bishops, 50% of the entire Bishops’ Conference. The Catholic Church of England and Wales will participate in the “World Youth Day” to be held in Sydney on July 15-20 2008. “Counting the youth from Scotland, the overall number amounts to […]

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Bulgaria

In memory of the martyrs killed by Communists”Holiness is a task of all mankind “, these words, pronounced by Pope Benedict XVI, inspired also the Catholic Church in Bulgaria which November 13 commemorated its martyrs shot by the Communist regime. The martyrs are blessed Eugenio Bossilkov, Bishop of Nicopoli, along with the three Assumption Fathers […]

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France

A “clear” dialogue with muslimsIn France, with Muslims, the Catholic Church must develop a “clear, lucid and friendly dialogue, for we are friends of Muslims and want to go on being their friends”. Those words were spoken alongside the Assembly of French bishops in Lourdes by Msgr. Michel Dubost, bishop of Evry. He submitted to […]

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England

Remembrance SundayAn appeal to the government, asking it to finance soldiers and their families in a better way; and a call to the nation, asking it not to forget the men and women who die in the service of the country. They are included in the pastoral letter written by Msgr. Thomas Matthew, military ordinary […]

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Belarus

Msgr. Kondrusiewicz at MinskOn 9th November, in the main basilica of Minsk, the new archbishop of the Belarusian capital, msgr. Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, former archbishop of Moscow, took possession of the diocese. “If I have to, I will work to sign a concordat between Belarus and the Holy See”, said the archbishop who thinks “such step […]

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