Spain: road education for children

On the occasion of the national Day of Responsibility in Traffic 2007, celebrated on 1st July, the Spanish bishop responsible for the pastoral care of the highways, the Right Rev. Carmelo Echenagusía, auxiliary bishop of Bilbao, issued a message with the title “Responsible as children”. “Children – writes the bishop – have the right to […]

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Portugal: EU Presidency, priorities for Catholics

Coinciding with the start of the six months’ Portuguese Presidency of the EU, various Catholic personalities have called for a strong commitment of the European Union in the search for solutions to the most urgent humanitarian challenges of our time. Mons. Carlos Azevedo, secretary of the Portuguese Bishops’ Conference, believes that the Portuguese Presidency could […]

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Austria:”to overcome divisions”

In furtherance of “cohabitation in truth and love”, this is the judgement passed by the Austrian Bishops Conference (Cea), about the Pope’s Motu Proprio, “Summorum Pontificum”, in a release dated July 8th. “From the orderly cohabitation of the two characteristics of the Roman rite, the Pope expects a contribution to overcome divisions within the Church. […]

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England: “to celebrate the mass in unity”

In a note made known today, the bishops of England and Wales thank the Pope for the Motu Proprio “Summorum Pontificum”, issued on July 7th, and whose rules will come into force next September 14th. In particular, the bishops welcome the Papal emphasis “of the importance of unity within the Church, in the celebration of […]

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France: “the pope’s passion for the communion”

“Benedict XVI takes care of the unity of the Catholics; he wants to encourage their reconciliation, and at the same time, reconcile the Church with its liturgical past. It is a gesture for the followers of Msgr. Lefebvre, but the Pope knows that the differences are not just liturgical”. Those words were spoken by the […]

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Oland: “a deep reflection”

“First of all, it is a deep and mature spiritual reflection on the tradition of the celebrating Church praising and thanking God”: with those words, the Dutch bishops commented Motu Proprio “Summorum Pontificum” by Benedict XVI. “It is no rejection of the liturgy of the Second Vatican Council, since the two forms are manifestations of […]

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Germany: “contribution to reconciliation”

The German bishops, too, consider the Pope’s Motu Proprio a contribution to the reconciliation of the Church”, declared Cardinal Karl Lehmann, President of the German Bishops’ Conference in Freising on 7 July. “The German bishops hope that the new rules will have a unifying effect”. Lehmann expressed this hope with reference to the Catholics who […]

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Italy: it “expresses fidelity to the Council”

“The significance of the Motu Proprio on the use of the Roman liturgy anterior to the reform conducted in 1970, signed by the Pope on 7 July, may be grasped from what Benedict XVI himself writes in the Letter sent to all bishops, accompanying the text of the document, and from what he himself indicates […]

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A rule for our time

“Pacis Nuntius” (messenger of peace): with these words begins Paul VI’s document of 24 October 1964, proclaiming Benedict as “Patron of Europe”. Without doubt this – the message of peace – is at the same time one of the most characteristic features of the Rule of the Saint of Norcia and one of the boons […]

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FIERANTI E CIRCENSI: CONVEGNO MIGRANTES, "NELL’INCONTRO E NELL’ACCOGLIENZA" SI SCOPRE "COME L’ALTRO SIA UNA BENEDIZIONE"

"Nell’incontro e nell’accoglienza reciproca, purché autenticamente umana, e nel mondo dei fieranti e circensi, si ha modo di scoprire come l’altro sia una ‘benedizione’ per noi". L’apertura al prossimo, infatti, "fa riscoprire la semplicità della propria umanità", "aiuta a leggere il Vangelo e la vita", manifesta "le radici della nostra fede", "fa scoprire come Cristo […]

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