PRIMA PAGINA

Un dovere morale

Da cinquantotto anni ormai le guerre si succedono nel Medio Oriente. Forse dovremmo parlare fra poco di una nuova Guerra di Cento anni? Tutto sembra fare pensare di sì, la situazione è disperata. Difatti da tanti anni, tutte le iniziative di pace sono fallite, i falchi hanno sempre vinto sulle colombe, e tanti uomini di […]

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COUNCIL OF EUROPE

Educating in citizenship

A democracy that “is built from below”, with “the participation and commitment” of citizens: that was the message sent out to the 500 participants who enrolled in the Summer University for democracy held by the Council of Europe at Strasbourg from 10 to 14 July. They listened with close attention to the inaugural address given […]

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COMMUNICATION

Antennae between 25 stars

BINDING DIRECTIVE. The European Commission’s proposed amendment of Directive 89/552/CE (TV without frontiers), already modified by Directive 97/36/CE, began to be examined in the Cultural and Education Committee of the European Parliament in June. The aim of the reform is to adjust European legislation to technological and market developments in the audiovisual sector in Europe. […]

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CULTURE

The real unity

It’s an annual invitation made to scholars, university researchers, laypeople and priests of every nation “engaged in various ways in studying the cultural and religious roots of the old continent”: at the Paul VI Ambrosian Foundation at Gazzada (Varese – Italy) everything is ready for the 28th European Week, due to be held from 5 […]

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EUROPEAN HISTORY

Itineraries of memory

A data bank has been established to commemorate the main sites of the great conflicts that involved the European countries in the first half of the 20th century: the two world wars (1914-1918; 1940-1945) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The European project “Les chemins de la mémoire” is promoted by the “Memorial de Caen”, […]

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France: website for the 150th anniversary of Lourdes

On the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady to Bernardette Soubirous at Lourdes, a new website has been created: www.lourdes2008.com http://www.lourdes2008.com , which also includes (since 20 June) a version in Italian. Many Italians are interested in the Marian sanctuary at Lourdes: in May 2006 alone 171,010 Italians accessed the official website of […]

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Scotland: calls for Act of Settlement to be abrogated

Scottish Catholics anti-Henry VIII: it’s not a joke but the initiative of Alex Salmond, leader of the second most important political party in Scotland, the Scottish Nationalist Party, who has seconded the positions of the local Catholic Church and asked Tony Blair to repeal of “Act of Settlement”, the British law that prevents Catholics from […]

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Germany: instigation to suicide “deplorable”

With a communiqué released on 13 July, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, President of the German Bishops’ Conference, welcomed the position published by the German national Ethical Council on death and the relation with the terminally ill. “We approve the fact that the national Council, by condemning the instigation to suicide as ethically deplorable and rejecting every […]

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Italy: monasticism and Christian roots of Europe

“St. Benedict, monasticism and the Christian roots of Europe” is the theme of the course for students of theology to be held at the Benedictine abbey of Santa Scolastica at Subiaco (near Rome), from 28 to 31 August. Promoted by the national Office for social problems and work of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, the course […]

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England: adoptions at risk for Catholic agencies

Catholic adoption agencies that each year find hundreds of families for orphaned or abandoned children could be discriminated against by proposed new legislation of the British government aimed at guaranteeing the rights of homosexuals. The Catholic Bishops of England and Wales raise the danger of possible discrimination in a document they have just delivered to […]

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