RELIGIOUS TOURISM

Even the slum is a “sanctuary”

From the Alps to the Pyramids: that’s how once could paraphrase the experience of the diocesan pilgrimage society (ODP) of Lugano in Canton Ticino, active since 1975. The society was founded to continue the work previously carried out by Father Alfredo Leber, historic figure of the Church of Lugano, who was the first to dedicate […]

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ECUMENISM

To our wonder

The renewal of European society is not a utopia. It has already begun. Compared with the meeting in 2004, which launched the dialogue between movements and new communities – including such Catholic movements as the Focolari, St. Edigio Community and Renewal in the Spirit – the second “Together for Europe” (Stuttgart, 11-13 May) highlighted the […]

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ENGLAND AND WALES

They saw his fidelity

A priest for every 800 Catholics, average age 61; a growth in the number of vocations that has been constant over the last four years, and is concentrated in important cities like London; and 150 seminarians preparing to become priests today: that, in brief, is the situation of vocations in England and Wales. Father PAUL […]

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Holland: Catholic Youth Day confirmed

The holding of National Youth Day in Holland until 2010 has been confirmed. Confirmation of the Catholic bishops’ commitment to the annual event was made at the last plenary assembly of the Dutch Bishops’ Conference, held in April and reported in recent days on the website rkkerl.nl, the official internet bulletin of the Dutch ecclesiastical […]

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Germany: “keeping promises”

“Keep your promises”: with this slogan, the Catholic humanitarian relief organization Misereor will be closely monitoring the meeting of the G8 due to be held at Heiligendamm (Germany) from 6 to 8 June. Interviewed by the German Catholic press agency KNA, Archbishop Werner Thissen of Hamburg, delegate of the German bishops for Misereor, pointed out […]

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Austria: in support of unmarried mothers

On the occasion of Mother’s Day, an appeal for discrimination against unmarried mothers to be ended was made by the auxiliary bishop of Salzburg Andreas Laun. “They are mothers who should be honoured” and who deserve support, he declared to the Austrian Catholic press agency Kathpress. Laun deplored the fact that discrimination against unmarried mothers […]

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FRONT PAGE

The ten years of Blair

Church leaders have paid tribute to the ten years’ service that Prime Minister Tony Blair has performed on behalf of the United Kingdom. They have praised him for having helped to ensure peace in Northern Ireland, but have raised doubts about the wisdom of the British expedition in Iraq. CAFOD, the international development agency of […]

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UNIVERSITÀ: MONS. AMATO (SANTA SEDE), L’"ALLARGAMENTO DELLA NOSTRA IDEA DI RAGIONE" È "UN APOSTOLATO URGENTE" (2)

"La ragione può e deve includere la qualità dell’esistenza morale e spirituale della persona", ha ribadito mons. Amato, ricordando quell’"allargamento della nostra idea di ragione" che "sta a cuore a Benedetto XVI". Si tratta, ha affermato il prelato interpretando il pensiero del Santo Padre, di "un apostolato urgente per rispondere a quelle tendenze relativizzanti e […]

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UNIVERSITÀ: MONS. AMATO (SANTA SEDE), L’"ALLARGAMENTO DELLA NOSTRA IDEA DI RAGIONE" È "UN APOSTOLATO URGENTE"

"L’apertura degli spazi della razionalità è sinonimo di superamento della fase ‘etica’ della presenza del cristianesimo per un decisivo ingresso nella sua fase ‘costruttiva’. Il cristianesimo è per sua natura realtà da costruire. E per costruire occorre possedere un bagaglio culturale". Lo scrive mons. Lorenzo Leuzzi, direttore dell’Ufficio per la pastorale universitaria del vicariato di […]

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EUTANASIA NEONATALE: BELLIENI (NEONATOLOGO), "OGNI BAMBINO VA ASSISTITO"

La "terminalità" ha spiegato Noia, "è una condizione fetale che sul piano anatomico strutturale o genico è incompatibile con la vita, come ad esempio l’anencefalia, ossia la mancanza di tessuto cerebrale". Tuttavia, ha precisato, a fronte di questa condizione oggettiva, "i pregiudizi sociali e le manipolazioni culturali hanno creato nuove forme di terminalità scientificamente infondate". […]

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