Lithuania: international congress on St. Augustine” “

“The rich testimony of the life and writings of St. Augustine is still of great relevance for contemporary society”, said the archbishop of Vilnius, Cardinal Audrys Backis, on inaugurating the recent international congress dedicated to the great bishop of Hippo and Doctor of the Church on the occasion of the 1650th anniversary of his death. […]

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England: the quality of Catholic education” “

Over a hundred delegates attended the first meeting in Parliament to celebrate the results achieved by Catholic education in recent days. The participants included headmasters, teachers and representatives of the Catholic Association of Teachers, representatives of the Department for Education and Training of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, and Kerry Pollard, MP and […]

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Serbia-Montenegro: Pope’s visit proposed” “

Victory has been claimed by the party of President Ibrahim Rugova, the “Democratic League” (just over 45% of the votes), in favour of the independence of Kosovo, which has a large Albanian majority. But the victory was only achieved at the heavy price of the almost complete abstention of the Serb minority, which is keeping […]

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Spain: Our Lady of Pilar in Jerusalem” “

As every year, the Spanish community gathered in recent days in the church of the Holy Saviour, in the Christian quarter of Jerusalem, to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Pilar. Present at the rite were the Consul General of Spain, José María Ferré, and other members of the Consulate and of International Cooperation. […]

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English bishops reject euthanasia” “

An appeal to the Catholics of England and Wales to campaign against euthanasia by omission had been made by Archbishop Peter Smith, delegate for bioethics of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, and by the Standing Committee of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. A few days before the parliamentary debate on the […]

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German bishops reject cloning” “

The German Episcopal Conference has reaffirmed a clear rejection of any form of cloning of human embryos. On 20 October – on the eve of the resumption of consultations on a cloning ban at the level of the United Nations scheduled from 21 October on – the German bishops issued an appeal, signed by their […]

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A fine effort” “” “

The episode involving the Commission-designate and the European Parliament in recent days, apart from all the controversies it has caused and the shadow it has cast over the ceremony of the signing of the Constitution, has much to teach the direct protagonists, the European politicians and the citizens who feel themselves participants in the laborious […]

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COSTITUZIONE UE: SCHEDA

"L’Unione si fonda sui valori del rispetto della dignità umana, della libertà, della democrazia, dell’uguaglianza, dello Stato di diritto e del rispetto dei diritti umani, compresi i diritti delle persone appartenenti a una minoranza. Questi valori sono comuni agli Stati membri in una società caratterizzata dal pluralismo, dalla non discriminazione, dalla tolleranza, dalla giustizia, dalla […]

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IMMIGRAZIONE: FUCI, "LA RISPOSTA AL FENOMENO NON È SOLO POLITICA, MA ANCHE CULTURALE". APERTO OGGI UN CONVEGNO IN PUGLIA

 "Come cristiani sentiamo di dover testimoniare che difendere il diritto alla vita significa anche adoperarsi per offrire un’accoglienza non precaria, ma umana e solidale, a chi arriva nel nostro Paese alla ricerca di una vita dignitosa". Così i presidenti nazionali della Fuci (Federazione universitaria cattolica italiana), Enrica Belli e Davide Paris, hanno aperto oggi a […]

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COSTITUZIONE EUROPEA: MERISI (COMECE), OCCORONO COMUNITÀ E LAICI CRISTIANI "PREPARATI E MOTIVATI"

"E’ indubbiamente una giornata storica per l’Europa": mons. Giuseppe Merisi, vescovo ausiliare di Milano e rappresentante della Cei presso la Comece (Commissione degli episcopati della Comunità europea), ha seguito la cerimonia della firma della Costituzione svoltasi in Campidoglio. "Ho apprezzato i diversi interventi ufficiali che hanno posto l’accento sui valori che sono alla base dell’integrazione […]

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