PRIMA PAGINA

E se avesse quel volto?

Quello che segue non è solo un racconto per l’estate. A fronte della guerra in Medio Oriente e in molte altre aree nel mondo, la riflessione del vescovo di Gap (Francia) indica la strada maestra verso la pace: il riconoscimento del volto dell’altro, dell’avversario, del nemico. Con un richiamo in più per gli uomini e […]

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UNIONE EUROPEA

Più slancio dopo la pausa?

Anche le sedi istituzionali dell’Unione europea a Bruxelles, Strasburgo e Lussemburgo hanno chiuso i battenti per le ferie estive. Rimangono in sospeso temi di ampia portata, che esigeranno una soluzione a partire da settembre. L’elenco è lungo: il processo costituzionale; i futuri allargamenti; il coinvolgimento dei cittadini nel processo democratico europeo; il dibattito sulla creazione […]

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EUROPEAN UNION

More impetus after the pause?

The institutions of the European Union at Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg have also closed their doors for the summer holidays. A series of important questions remain in a state of abeyance; they will require a solution from September onwards. The list is long: the constitutional process; future Eu enlargement; the involvement of citizens in the […]

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COMECE

50th anniversary of the Treaty

“The Treaty of Rome 50 years later – What values for the European Union?”: that is the title of the seminar that Comece (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community) is holding at Clermont-Ferrand, in France, from 9 to 11 October, at the invitation of Archbishop Hippolyte Simon, to mark the 50th anniversary […]

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IRELAND

Climbing up the mountain

Croagh Patrick: for Irish Catholics that means pilgrimage. The mountain, situated in County Mayo in western Ireland, is 762 m. high. It is also known as the Reek (Gaelic term meaning “high hill”). The Reek has always been a sacred mountain, the goal of pilgrimages that have continued without interruption for over 1500 years. Its […]

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The “hidden truth” of Santiago de Compostela

The solemnity of the apostle Santiago de Compostela, patron of Spain, “is a call to revitalize our Christian roots, recalling the origins of our faith”, also because “the new situations – ecclesial, social, economic and cultural – appeal today, with particular force, for the action of the laity”, declared the Archbishop of Galizia, Julián Barrio […]

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This “education in citizenship” is ambiguous

Many associations in Spain oppose the teaching of the new subject placed on the curriculum called “Education in Citizenship”, which will soon become compulsory in schools. They oppose it because they consider that it contains a “real risk of ideological indoctrination in schools by whatever government is in office”. For this reason they are drafting […]

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SPAIN

Embryos: eugenics isn’t a cure

“Eugenics isn’t a cure”, declare the Spanish bishops in a press release issued in recent days, in response to the birth of a baby girl in Seville on 23 July, “selected” with pre-implant genetic diagnosis. Selecting embryos, underline the bishops, “cures no one” and is “eugenic” because “it selects healthy embryos and eliminates unhealthy ones”. […]

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Ukraine: centenary of the church of St. Anne

Remain faithful to God “by following the example of the numerous testimonies of faith given in the parish during the Communist period”: that is the exhortation addressed by the Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine, Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, to the religious and laity gathered in the parish church of St. Anne at Bar on 26 July, for […]

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Italy: international meeting of ministrants

Some 42,000 ministrants are in Rome for their international meeting, organized by CIM (Coetus Internationalis Ministrantium). The highlight of the meeting today will be the pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Peter, followed by evening prayer and the Mass celebrated in front of St. Peter’s, officiated by the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn. Tomorrow, […]

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