INGHILTERRA

Il prete “setaccio”

“Il prete delle star”, così i giornali britannici hanno definito nei giorni scorsi padre Michael Seed, mettendo la sua foto in prima pagina. Ma lui rifiuta con forza ogni titolo. E così all’umile francescano, consulente per l’ecumenismo del Primate cattolico Murphy-O’Connor e direttore spirituale di anglicani famosi passati a Roma, la duchessa di Kent prima […]

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Slovenia: nominato il vescovo ausiliare di Maribor

Mercoledì 24 maggio, Benedetto XVI ha nominato vescovo ausiliare di Maribor mons. Peter Štumpf della Società Salesiana di San Giovanni Bosco, finora Parroco della parrocchia di Maria Ausiliatrice di Ljubljana-Rakovnik a Ljubljana. Nato nel 1962 a Murska Sabota, professó i primi voti il 9 agosto 1980 nella Società Salesiana di San Giovanni Bosco. Nel 1984 […]

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Da Vinci Code: “it’s big business”

“It’s big business and a big swindle”: that’s the comment of Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Archbishop of Pamplona (Spain) on the Da Vinci Code (book and film). In the archbishop’s view, it’s “an economic swindle in which the image of Jesus Christ is deformed”. Monsignor Sebastián, who is one of the Spanish bishops who has spoken […]

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Madrid: diocesan church, missionary family

On Sunday 28 May, the archdiocese of Madrid celebrated Missionary Day 2006: “Madrid with its missionaries”. This year it had as its theme “Diocesan Church, missionary family”. The Day is dedicated by the Church of Madrid to its missionaries each year. The Cardinal Archbishop of Madrid, Antonio M. Rouco Varela, in a message, announced two […]

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Wcc: new policy directives

At its first meeting, following its nomination in February, the Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), meeting recently at Bossey (Geneva), approved a programme of activities for the years 2007-2013. Six areas of activity were defined for the seven-year period: WCC and the ecumenical movement in the 21st century; unity, mission and […]

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ECUMENISM

Austria: protecting the environment

The Churches must play a pioneering role in the protection of the environment: that is the objective set at Stuttgart during an ecumenical meeting between theologians and ecological experts from Germany and Austria. The ecumenical meeting, held on 20-21 May, underlined the need to formulate and promote obligatory ecological standards for ecclesiastical institutions. Jobst Kraus […]

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ENGLAND

The “sieve” priest

“The priest of the stars”: that’s how the British tabloids have dubbed Father Michael Seed in recent days, splashing his photo on the front page. But he forcefully rejects any such title. So, the humble Franciscan, adviser for ecumenism of Catholic Primate Murphy-O’Connor and spiritual director of famous Anglicans who have converted to Rome, the […]

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With the strength of faith

It was a visit full of symbolic gestures. A pilgrim in Poland, following in the footsteps of John Paul II, Benedict XVI stopped to commemorate the heroes of the insurrection of the Ghetto and of the Warsaw Rising in 1944, monuments of the tragic history of the Polish capital. Then the masses in Pilsudski Square […]

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Widening our gaze

A constant invitation to preserve the gift of faith and to share it, through witness, also with other peoples of the world: this, in the view of the Archbishop of Warsaw-Prague, the Most Rev. S?AWOJ LESZEK G?ÓD?, is the key point of the apostolic journey made by Pope Benedict to Poland, from 25 to 28 […]

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BENEDICT IN POLAND

Like a rainbow

With his visit to Poland, Benedict XVI won the adjective “our” that had been reserved for John Paul II since 1978. Four days were enough to conquer the hearts of the compatriots of his predecessor. For the Poles, a German Pope has become “their” Pope. Up to the last moment, before this historic visit of […]

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