“Together for Europe” 2007 in Stuttgart

The second international ecumenical gathering promoted by “Together for Europe” is to be held in Stuttgart on 12 May. “Together for Europe” is a regrouping of 250 Christian movements – Catholic, Evangelical, Anglican and Orthodox – and communities from all over Europe that, while maintaining their own autonomy, act together on particular occasions in pursuit […]

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ECUMENISM

Put to the test every day

The memory of the Cypriots killed in war to defend their own freedom formed the background, in recent days, to the visit to Cyprus of the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church, CHRISTODOULOS. The Primate met the archbishop of the island, Chrisostomos, and also the archbishop of Paphos, Georgios, in whose territory the monastery of […]

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Vetting of collaborators of Communist secret services

The representatives of the various political groups in the European Parliament have expressed their solidarity with Polish MEP Bronislaw Geremek, who declared he had no intention of obeying the new national law on the vetting of collaborators of the Communist secret services. This refusal, in non-compliance with the new Polish provisions, means the revocation of […]

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Extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist

The Polish Bishops’ Conference has issued directives regarding the distribution of the Eucharist also by women religious and consecrated laywomen. Those eligible to administer the Eucharist must be between the ages of 25 and 65, be involved in the life of the Church, of proven morality, and deserve the esteem of the clergy and faithful […]

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Towards the European football championship in 2012

“Properly preparing the European football championship in 2012 is a great responsibility”, said Monsignor Marian Florczyk, who heads the office for the pastoral care of sport within the Polish Bishops’ Conference, after the decision of UEFA to award the organization of the continental championship jointly to Poland and Ukraine. “We must mobilise the whole country, […]

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POLAND

Warsaw: the 64th anniversary of the ghetto uprising

On Thursday 19 April, on the 64th anniversary of the revolt in the Warsaw ghetto, thousands of candles were lit in front of the monument commemorating the uprising; they recreated the pattern of streets that had existed here before the Nazi occupation. Poland’s head rabbi Michael Schudrich, paying tribute to the participants in the uprising, […]

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Ukraine: a new Catholic church in Kiev

The foundation stone of the new Catholic church of Latin rite, the church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was laid in Kiev on 1st May. The bishop of the diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr, the Most Rev. Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk, who officiated the Mass, said in his homily: “The building of this church is a […]

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Holland: national day of Catholic youth

National Day of Dutch Youth is to be repeated in Holland this year, given the success of the first two National Days in 2005 and 2006. This year’s event will be held in the Brabantenhall at ‘s-Hertogenbosch and have the title “Paradise”. According to a communiqué of the secretariat of the Catholic Church in Holland, […]

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Italy: solidarity with the President of the CEI

Mons. Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa and President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), has over the last few weeks been subjected to attacks and intimidation due to a distortion by some organs of the press of his thought on de facto unions, or unmarried couples. After defamatory posters appeared on the walls of the […]

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CZECH REPUBLIC

The Learning Church

The questions on the order of the day at the plenary assembly of the Czech Bishops’ Conference (CBK), held in Prague between 17 and 18 April, included not least a six-year programme called “The learning Church”: it is aimed at helping priests to choose suitable themes, base themselves on the liturgical readings and present the […]

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