Ireland: president remenber Ireland

“It is necessary to ponder over the series of events which pushed so many Iraqi Christian communities to the limit, threatening their survival”. The warning was by the president of Ireland, Mary McAleese. She sent a message during the mass for the soul of Father Ragheed Ganni, the Chaldean priest killed with three subdeacons in […]

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Portugal: culture and evangelization

The 3rd National Days for the Pastoral Care of Tourism were recently held in Fatima. Theme of this year’s event: “The pastoral care of culture: priorities and practical actions”. Father Tolentino Mendonça, director of the National Secretariat, summed up the conclusions of the meeting by explaining that “place, progression and surprise are the three key […]

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Poland: shopkeepers to compulsory opening on holidays

A day of national strike for keeping shops closed on holidays has been held today, the day of Corpus Domini, in Poland, by the members of the trade section of the trade-union Solidarnosc. The shopkeepers, forced even today, a day that has always been a holiday in Poland, to open their shops, warned their customers […]

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England: catholic schools and “excellent citizens”

Catholic schools, “excellent training grounds for good citizens, important places of promotion of social participation”. This was found by a survey of the “Von Hugel Centre for the promotion of faith within society”, an important ecumenical survey centre based in Cambridge which conducted a survey of over 1400 students in nineteen schools in England and […]

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Towards EEA3: responsibility for the creation

Theological research on the theme of “creation”, renewed lifestyles, and environmental sustainability: these are the new challenges for Christians in Europe as enunciated in the report “Responsibility for the Creation in Europe”, published by the CCEE in the run-up to the Third European Ecumenical Assembly (EEA3) at Sibiu (in Romania, 4-8 September). The research embodied […]

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Migrations and Europe

“Migrations: a challenge for Europe” is the title of the meeting of general secretaries of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe due to be held in Minsk from 14 to 18 June, but the question has already been the central focus of a previous CCEE meeting. In September 2006, in fact, “Migration and youth – an […]

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ccee: meeting of general secretaries

A European Catholic network

Each year the general secretaries of the 34 Bishops’ Conferences of Europe meet to assess the steps taken and review future activities: the 2007 meeting will be held in Minsk (Belarus) from 14 to 18 June on “Migrations: a challenge for Europe”. This meeting forms part of the service that the CCEE (Council of European […]

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An historic visit

The official visit to the Orthodox Archbishop of Cyprus, Chrysostomos II, began yesterday, 12 June. It will culminate on Saturday, 16 June, with an audience with Benedict XVI. It is in fact the first visit of the archbishop of Cyprus to the Pope in history, even though the Orthodox Church of Cyprus is one of […]

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Doing still better

“Social letter of the Catholic Church in Luxembourg” is the title of the document published in recent days by the Archbishop of the Grand-Duchy, Fernand Franck, with the aim of laying down “guidelines” for the commitment of “Christians as citizens, and of the Church as a vital force of society”. The five-year plan set out […]

di Fernard Franck Archbishop of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg

FEDERALISMO FISCALE: DON CICCONE (DIOCESI MILANO), IL PDL REGIONALE “SEMBRA PREMETTERE LE ESIGENZE LOMBARDE A QUELLE NAZIONALI

«Il progetto di legge approvato dalla Regione, sembra premettere le esigenze lombarde a quelle più globali della realtà italiana. Ricordo, invece, che il federalismo, se da un lato suppone un’attenzione al territorio, dall’altro non deve mai perdere di vista l’orizzonte del bene comune». Così, don Raffaello Ciccone, responsabile della Pastorale sociale e del lavoro della […]

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