England: living with simplicity

A campaign to persuade Catholics and non-Catholics to live with greater simplicity was launched in England and Wales on Sunday 26 November, coinciding with the celebration of the day dedicated to youth. CAFOD, the Catholic charity for the developing world, Catholic Charismatic Renewal and the National Board of Catholic Women have jointly promoted the campaign, […]

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Co-responsible for the project

“How can the citizens of the EU be brought closer to its institutions? How can political activity be organized in an extended Union? How can the EU be turned into a factor of stability in the globalized world?”. To these questions, which go to the heart of the process of integration, COMECE tries to furnish […]

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COMECE

The living source

“The European project has an ethical foundation, which precedes the political union. This foundation derives from the origins and sources of our common values and ambitions. Its historic sources are found in the Christian and humanist legacy of our continent”: that’s one of the key passages of the document called “Common values: the living source […]

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FRONT PAGE

An emerging profile

The great new challenges of the new millennium and the great suggestions of the two millennia of Christian history, meet and intersect in Benedict XVI’s journey to Turkey. The Pope is opening to the Orient: the Muslim Orient and the Orthodox Orient, the two great religious dimensions of a programme that will culminate in the […]

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ECUMENISM

Despite the difficulties

“The pursuit of peace in the Holy Land and in other part of the world marred by conflict and the threat of terrorism” is one of the many areas of witness and service in which we can stand together, and which indeed call for closer cooperation between us”, declare B ENEDICT XVI and the Archbishop […]

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DRUGS

Life for sale?

The price of drugs in Europe is falling; the therapeutic services for women are still limited; and youngsters who frequent discos and night spots have ten times greater probability of making use of drugs that those who don’t: these are some of the alarm bells sounded by the European Watchdog on Drugs and Drug Addiction […]

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FRANCE

A practice to be reviewed

Twelve proposals for a “more just” French society, ranging from educational support for the more disadvantaged children to care for the homeless, workers and immigrants: they were presented during the 81st Semaine Sociale of French Catholics, held at Paris-La Defénse from 24 to 26 November, on the theme “What is a just society?”. The proposals, […]

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Belarus: Legion of honour to the card. Swiatek

On november 23rd, at the French Embassy to Belarus, by decree of the President of the Republic of France, Jacques Chirac, card. Kazimierz Swiatek will be bestowed with the title of knight commander of the Order of the Legion of Honour. The cardinal, who in the eyes of the French embodies the last 70 years’ […]

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Great Britain: appeal against to the “cluster bombs”

An appeal to the British Government to support the international treaty for putting a ban on “cluster bombs”, which kill people, especially civilians: it was made yesterday by the auxiliary bishop of Birmingham, William Kenney, in a letter he signed along with other Catholic bishops and leaders of the Methodist and Baptist churches and representatives […]

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Costruire ponti

“La vera pace ha bisogno della giustizia e del dialogo”: così Benedetto XVI, incontrando ieri pomeriggio in Nunziatura ad Ankara il Corpo diplomatico accreditato presso la Repubblica di Turchia. Confermando agli ambasciatori “la stima che la Santa Sede ha innumerevoli volte espresso” per le loro “alte funzioni, che rivestono oggi una dimensione sempre più globale”, […]

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