EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

Memory and project

“With this programme we intend to express with pride the achievements and successes obtained in fifty years of European integration. But at the same time we would like there to be many more occasions in 2007 on which to reflect on the current difficulties of the Community process and on the future of the Eu”, […]

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ECUMENISM

After a painful history

When the leader of the Anglican Communion and head of the Church of England, Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury meets Benedict XVI in Rome on 21 November, the minds of Anglicans and Catholics engaged for years in the arduous ecumenical endeavour will inevitably recur to an identical meeting, forty years ago, between Paul VI and […]

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LITHUANIA

Carrying the Cross

A group of some 50 Lithuanian Catholics have completed a five-month pilgrimage on foot from the Hill of the Crosses in Lithuania to Jerusalem: a journey of 4300 km through Belarus, Ukraine, Hungary, Italy to the Holy Land, conducted in a spirit of penance and thanksgiving for the whole Lithuanian people. The pilgrimage was described […]

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CCEE

A European Catholic network

The extension and consolidation of a European “Catholic network”: this, in the words of its general secretary ALDO GIORDANO, is the main result of the service performed over the years by the Ccee (Council of the European Bishops’ Conferences). During its plenary assembly 2006, held in St. Petersburg from 4 to 8 October, Cardinal Pèter […]

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Italy: meeting of the 160 Catholic weeklies

The extraordinary assembly of the Italian Federation of Catholic Weeklies (Fisc), marking its 40th anniversary, will end with an audience of the Pope on Saturday 25 November. “Catholics in politics: free or dispersed? Questions posed by the diocesan magazines”: that is the theme of the meeting that from 23 November will bring together the directors […]

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England: Remembrance Sunday

Next Sunday, 12 November, the Catholic Churches of England and Wales will remember the dead of the two world wars and British troops stationed abroad with a special celebration. On the occasion of Remembrance Sunday, held on 12 November every year, it is the time-honoured practice in the Uk to wear a red poppy in […]

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Portugal: children against illegal weapons

Raising the awareness of Portuguese children about the problem of illegal weapons: that was the aim of the celebration called “Disarming Hearts”, organized by the National Commission of Justice and Peace, a lay association promoted by the Portuguese Bishops’ Conference, and held in Lisbon on 28 October. “Transmitting to the new generations the ideal of […]

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Austria: anti-poverty campaign

A campaign promoted by Austrian Caritas to support those in need throughout the national territory began in November. During a press conference held on 30 October to present it, the President of Austrian Caritas Franz Küberl and the Director of Caritas of Vienna, Michael Landau, described the situation of poverty in their country: some 460,000 […]

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Spain: invitation to the Youth Mission of Madrid

With a pastoral letter the Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, has invited parishes, rectors of churches, directors of colleges and university centres, presidents and officeholders of church associations and movements to participate in the Youth Mission to be held in Madrid during the pastoral year 2006-2007 “with the objective of transmitting faith […]

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Switzerland: a law of solidarity

The Swiss bishops have given their support to the federal law on cooperation with the states of Eastern Europe that will be voted in Parliament on 26 November. This law, say the bishops in a statement issued by the Commission of Justice and Peace, “emphasises the solidarity of Switzerland with the states of Eastern Europe […]

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