Saints Peter and Paul, Catholic and Orthodox feast

Benedict XVI received in audience, on 29 June, the Delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, present in Rome for the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. The Delegation was led by Ioannis (Zizioulas), Metropolitan of Pergamon, co-chairman of the Mixed International Commission for theological dialogue between Catholics and Orthodox, and also composed […]

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ECUMENISM AND DIALOGUE

Moscow: world summit of the great religions

An occasion to “share our common concerns at the start of the third millennium, and re-affirm our common commitment to contribute with renewed vigour and confidence to an intercultural and inter-religious dialogue at the service of an integral humanism”. That, according to Cardinal Paul Poupard, President of the Pontifical Councils of Culture and Religious Dialogue, […]

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TURKEY

The example of don Andrea

Don Andrea Santoro, don Martin Kmetec, Father Hanri Leylek, Father Pierre Brunissen: the list of the Catholic priests killed or attacked in Turkey continues to grow. It’s an escalation that began on 5 February this year, when the Roman priest, don Andrea Santoro, was killed in his parish church at Trabzon by a young fanatic, […]

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Poland: the Pope recalls the victims of Poznan (1956)

“The blood spilt on the streets of Poznan not only by workers, but also by women, students and children, was not shed in vain. Indeed it was the seed of the freedom whose fruit was the fall of the Stalinist system years later and the full sovereignty of the nation”: that’s the central past of […]

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Great Britain: abuses on children, 2005 Report

“It’s a report that, together with the three others that have preceded it, paints the picture of the constant and constructive progress being made in so delicate an area of the life of the Church as the abuse of minors”, declared Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Birmingham on 3 July. Nichols, chairman of the board of […]

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Hungary-Slovakia: prayer of reconciliation

As part of the national year of prayer for reconciliation, called by the Hungarian Bishops’ Conference (HBC), the Slovak and Hungarian bishops concelebrated a liturgy of reconciliation in the basilica of Esztergom on 29 June, with a homily given by Archbishop František Tondra, President of the Slovak Bishops’ Conference. Two brotherly letters on reconciliation signed […]

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CCEE

Common responsibility

“Only through common responsibility, communion and collaboration is it possible to show that the Gospel responds to the great questions of European man. Only together can we tackle the historical challenges. With gratitude we experience that this communion and collaboration between the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe is growing, but we need to go forward. Our […]

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FRONT PAGE

Believing in the family

Over a million people are expected to congregate in Valencia, in Spain, for the 5th World Meeting of Families, promoted by the Pontifical Council for the Family, which opened on 1st July and will end on Sunday 9th with a mass presided over by Benedict XVI. The theme of the meeting is “The transmission of […]

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SVILUPPO: CARITAS DI ROMA, NASCE IL PRIMO MASTER UNIVERSITARIO PER FORMARE FUTURI DIRIGENTI NEI PAESI POVERI

"Istruzione, salute e affermazione della dignità dell’uomo sono le basi su cui fondare il processo di sviluppo per quei paesi che vivono nel disagio estremo e nella povertà”. Così mons. Guerino Di Tora, direttore della Caritas diocesana di Roma, ha presentato oggi a Roma il Master universitario “Sviluppo globale e giustizia sociale”, il primo in […]

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GLOBALIZZAZIONE: CONCLUSO ALLA LATERANENSE IL CONVEGNO ANNUALE DELL’ISTITUTO PASTORALE

Si è concluso questo pomeriggio presso la Pontificia Università Lateranese(Roma), il convegno annuale dell’Istituto pastorale "Redemptor Hominis", dal titolo "Globalizzazione e dottrina sociale della Chiesa". All’incontro hanno partecipato rettori e docenti di alcune Università Cattoliche di Argentina, Perù, Belgio e Australia con cui l’Istituto pastorale collabora ormai da alcuni anni. "La collaborazione internazionale – afferma […]

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