France: ecumenical congratulations to Mons. Vingt-Trois

France’s Protestant Federation and the Assembly of Orthodox bishops sent their wishes to Monsignor Andrè Vingt-Trois, congratulating him for his election as President of France’s Bishops’ Conference. “We know that, as has been the case of your predecessors, you will be a capable and sensitive interlocutor in following with inspired sense of responsibility, openness and […]

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ECUMENISM

Germany: Protestants and Catholics with a single voice

Protestant bishop Wolfgang Huber, President of the Council of the German Evangelical Church (Ekd), intends to improve the presently fissured relationship between Protestants and Catholics. On November 4, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Ekd synod, held in Dresda until November 7, Mr.Huber spoke of the Catholic-Evangelical relationship and proposed to strengthen common […]

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PORTUGAL

Close to non-churchgoers

“The idea was the brainchild of John Paul II, who spoke of the new evangelization, and it was then taken up by a group of European bishops, including Cardinals Lustiger in Paris and Schoenborn in Vienna”. SirEurope’s recent meeting with the Patriarch of Lisbon, Cardinal JOSÉ DA CRUZ POLICARPO, in the Vatican, during the cardinal’s […]

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England – Wales

18 November, Prisoners’ SundayThe British prisons, which are overcrowded and where the suicide rate is rising all the time, will be the focus of the prayers of the Catholic Church of the United Kingdom on November 18th, “Prisoners’ Sunday”. The Catholics will pray for the prisoners, their families and the prison staff. All the parishes […]

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EUROPE-AFRICA

Against all forms of slavery

European and African bishops will meet October 13-18 in Cape Coast Ghana, to discuss Slavery and New Forms of Slavery”: the initiative is promoted by the Council of European Bishops Conferences (CCEE) and by the Symposium of Bishops Conferences of Africa and Madagascar which includes National Bishops Conferences, 9 Regional Conferences and the Assemblies of […]

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Portugal: plenary meeting in Rome

On 6th November, the Papal Portuguese College of Rome hosted a special meeting of the Portuguese Bishops Conference (Cep), with 34 bishops. On the occasion of the visit Ad Limina apostolorum, the plenary meeting launched three major pastoral challenges for the near future. With reference to the internal organisation and working potentials of the Portuguese […]

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Albania: a convent, former jail of the regime, re-opens

At Scutari, in Albania, eight Poor Clare Sisters have re-opened the doors of their convent, which had been turned into a prison during the Communist regime, “not to forget and not to repeat the same errors in future”. The convent, property of the Franciscans until 1946, was requisitioned and transformed into a prison after the […]

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Austria: Bishop Küng, “euthanasia repugnant”

An urgent appeal against the legalization of euthanasia was made on 4 November by the Most Rev. Klaus Küng, Bishop of St. Pölten. In a comment published in the daily paper “Österreich”, Küng, himself a physician, said that a society that instead of helping the old, the poor and the disabled, “killed them on the […]

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FRONT PAGE

Uncomfortable traces

I watched with growing frustration the `debate’ in the UK on Europe and the new arrange­ments for managing the European Union Iast month. I think some of the Eurosceptic outrage we see in the British press is a remnant of centuries of suspi­cion of the old continent’s Catholic roots and culture. The European Union grew […]

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TELEVISIONE: SAT 2000, DOMANI SERA VITTORINO ANDREOLI A "NOVECENTO CONTROLUCE"

Sarà Vittorino Andreoli il protagonista del nuovo appuntamento di "Novecento controluce", la trasmissione condotta da Paola Saluzzi in onda domani sera alle ore 20 su "Sat 2000". Psichiatra e scrittore di fama internazionale, Andreoli ha analizzato i cambiamenti della nostra società, concentrando le sue ricerche sullo studio del cervello e del suo funzionamento. Nell’appuntamento di […]

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