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La via che cerchiamo” “

Benedetto XVI ha sorpreso, ma ha indicato la via all’umanità con la prima enciclica intitolata “Dio è amore”. Dietro le pesanti satire rivolte al fondatore di una religione, si possono forse trovare libertà di pensiero, moderno spirito di laicità, critica verso forme di fondamentalismo o incoscienza, ma non si trova l’intelligenza dell’amore. E dietro le […]

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Better informed, better citizens” “

“Over these last twenty years the European Union has undergone a far-reaching transformation. It has been assigned a wide range of tasks that influence the life of citizens. Nonetheless, Europe’s communication towards its citizens has not always followed the same pace. It cannot be ignored that a gulf now exists between the Union and its […]

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Winter Olympics in Turin ” “

In Italy the Church too is actively preparing for the Winter Olympics in Turin 2006, which Cardinal Severino Poletto, archbishop of Turin, has called a “favourable opportunity for individuals, groups and communities from other nations of Europe and the world to meet together”. The youth of Catholic Action took to the streets on Sunday 5 […]

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European soccer championships for priests” “

Priests too play football, and not only in parish courtyards or youth clubs. A European championship with teams composed exclusively of priests is in fact due to take place this year (for the second year running) at Zagreb, in Croatia. It begins on 6 February and will last for two weeks. News of the championship […]

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Sign of contradiction” “” “

“Even in our time the Church remains a ‘sign of contradiction’. It could not have been the intention of the Council to abolish this contradiction of the Gospel to the dangers and errors of man: it was its intention, instead, to lay aside erroneous or superfluous contradictions in order to present to our world the […]

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Turkey: no date for the Pope’s visit” “

“We are still waiting to learn the official date of the Holy Father’s visit to Turkey”. So, stories in the press reporting 30 November 2006, feast of St. Andrew, as the date of Benedict XVI’s journey to Turkey are not confirmed by the spokesman of the Turkish Bishops’ Conference, Monsignor Georges Marovitch. “Newspaper stories on […]

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Switzerland: abrogating the law on right of asylum” “

“Abrogating the restrictive measures added to a law that was already in itself very harsh, and that as a result risks no longer conforming even to the minimum standards of the Geneva Convention for refugees”: that’s the aim of the referendum against the restrictive law on the right of political asylum for which the Church […]

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Germany: reading the Bible” “

“The Bible is the crucial link between Christians”, declared Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the German Bishops’ Conference and bishop of Mainz, during the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the birth of the distinguished New Testament exegete Ferdinand Hahn in Munich on 30 January. “The truth of Holy Scripture – he continued – may […]

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Austria: Christian roots, crucial question” “

“The debate on the recall of the Christian roots in the European Constitution and the question of the reference to God are not trifles of the Pope and some reactionaries who were in a state of hibernation during the Enlightenment: it is on the contrary a crucial question”, declared Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, president of the […]

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Turkey: the "priest of dialogue" killed” “

An Italian priest, don Andrea Santoro, was killed on Sunday 5 February, by a pistol shot fired by a lone gunman as he was praying alone in the parish church of St. Mary at Trebizond, a Turkish city on the Black Sea. He was 60 years old. A priest of the diocese of Rome, Father […]

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