PRIMA PAGINA

Il nome Benedetto

Storicamente sappiamo ben poco su San Benedetto. Si suppone che abbia vissuto tra il 480 e il 549. Dopo alcuni anni da eremita, fondò delle piccole comunità a Subiaco. Quando un sacerdote della zona si mostrò invidioso per i molti giovani riunitisi attorno a Benedetto, questi scelse di spostarsi a Monte Cassino, dove fondò un […]

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REVIEW OF IDEAS

Re-finding confidence

“The 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome has arrived without the Second Treaty of Rome having been signed”: with this provocative statement Father PIERRE DE CHARENTENAY , editor in chief of the cultural review of the French Jesuits “Études”, writes in its March number that, in spite of the “considerable goals” achieved by Europe […]

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

A shared destiny

Ever since he was elected to the post of President of the European Parliament last January, HANS-GERT PÖTTERING has insisted on the importance of the two forthcoming events for the future of the EU: the celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding treaties of the European Community, with the Berlin Declaration on 25 […]

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Portugal: Nobel prize-winner Yunus on micro-credit

On 22 March, Muhammad Yunus, winner of the Novel Peace Prize for 2006, will give an address in Lisbon on “micro-credit and its contribution to peace”, at a conference being held jointly by the AESE (Business Studies School) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Yunus, in his report, will elaborate on some remarks already made during […]

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Poland: constitutional amendment in defence of life

“The defence of human life ought to be given maximum guarantees in the Polish Constitution”, declared the President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Jozef Michalik at the end of the 339th plenary session held in recent days. In the communiqué published at the end of the plenary, the bishops “express their gratitude to all […]

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Spain: “more respect for the Catholic faith”

“Crude images and deplorable forms of blasphemy”: that’s how the Spanish bishops comment on the commercials for a new film on St. Theresa of the Child Jesus and the catalogue of an art exhibition in the region of Estremadura. In a statement issued on 15 March, the executive Committee of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference deplores […]

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Bulgaria: families at the centre

A series of spiritual meetings for families has begun in the diocese of Nicopoli. The meetings are being led by the man in charge of this pastoral sector, Father Jacek Woiceh. “In this world which seems increasingly hostile to the family – says Father Remo Gambacorta, diocesan vicar general, in a briefing to SIR – […]

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Slovenia: Archbishop Uran, President of the bishops

On Friday 16 March, during the 34th ordinary assembly of the Slovene Bishops’ Conference (CES), the bishops elected as their new President the Right Rev. Alojz Uran, Metropolitan Archbishop of Ljubljana, who has served as Vice-President of the CES since 6 December 2004. Archbishop Uran takes the place of Franc Kramberger, Metropolitan Archbishop of Maribor. […]

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Spain: Basque dioceses, missionary day

The dioceses of Bilbao, San Sebastián and Vitoria celebrated the Day of Basque Diocesan Missions on Sunday, 18 March. Its aim is to increase missionary endeavour and continue to maintain the missionary commitments made to the dioceses of Angola and Ecuador and honoured for almost sixty years. The theme of this year’s Day was “With […]

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England: Cafod for Gaza

Six first-aid centres to tackle the healthcare emergency in the Gaza Strip: that’s the joint project of Caritas in Jerusalem and CAFOD, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, an agency of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, in collaboration with local medical organizations in Gaza. The violence of recent months combined with the dire […]

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