EU

Before other steps

From Strasbourg to Brussels: after the packed session at the European Parliament (11-14 December), the spotlight has shifted to the Belgian capital for the EU Council of heads of state and of government of the 25 (14-15 December). The EP has sent a clear message to the summit: the Union cannot proceed to any further […]

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SOCIAL POLICIES

It’s not just a market

After 1st May 2004, which marked the transition of the European Union from 15 to 25 members, “the new challenge of the enlarged Europe is that of the construction of a common space, harmonized in economic, social and institutional life”, and since “the structure of the Union is even more characterized today by disparities in […]

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The faces of welcome

“Tourism, a ‘transverse’ reality: pastoral aspects” was the title of the meeting of the National Directors for the Pastoral Care of Tourism in Europe held in recent days at the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People in Rome. It was attended by the delegates of 15 countries (Austria, Belgium, Belarus, […]

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TOURISM

New approaches

“In secularised and ever more intercultural and multi-religious European society, tourism may become a useful means for the diffusion of Gospel values”, says the Final Document of the meeting of National Directors for the Pastoral Care of Tourism in Europe, held in Rome in recent days. We present a résumé of the conclusions and the […]

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UNIVERSITY

The ways of research

Yesterday 14th December was the closing day, with the Mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica and the meeting with the Pope, of the V European Convention of university students, promoted by the Council of the Bishops Conferences of Europe (Ccce) and by the Office for the University Pastoral of the Vicariate of Rome, about “Intellectual love, […]

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IRELAND

With deep concern

The age of consent to sexual relations for adolescents, violence in society, permanent diaconate, biomedical research and human reproduction, the trafficking of women: these the main issues on the agenda of the December General Meeting of the Irish Bishops’ Conference, held at Maynooth in recent days. “Children need to be protected not only from irresponsible […]

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Poland: transforming hatred into good

“We have demonstrated that it’s possible to achieve changes in society without bloodshed, and thanks to prayer we have been able to bury hatred and transform it into solidarity and work for the common good. We have demonstrated that the sufferings of some can arouse the charity of others”, says the Primate of Poland, Cardinal […]

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Switzerland: “let’s not sacrifice the Catholic media”

“Catholic information in Switzerland is at risk: in recent years it has lost various channels of diffusion, both Catholic press and missionary and congregational bulletins”, says JACQUES BERSET , editor in chief of the International Catholic press agency APIC in Fribourg. “Some people in the Church – he adds – think these losses in the […]

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ECUMENISM

“Time is pressing”

“Time is pressing”: the phrase encapsulates the urgent need for dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. It was pronounced by the Archbishop of Athens and of all Greece, Christodoulos, who began a four-day visit to Rome on 13 December. The visit culminated on the following day with his meeting with Benedict XVI […]

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FRONT PAGE

The common duty

One of the leading themes of the journey of the archbishop of Athens and all Greece, Christodoulos, in Rome, where on 14th December he met Benedict XVI, has been Europe. The Old Continent, undermined by laicisation and relativism, is for the leader of the Orthodox Church of Greece a care and a concern that he […]

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