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A history and an ideal” “

“Humanism and Mediterranean” is the theme of a cycle of lectures being held by the International Association ‘Political Charity’ and begun in Rome in recent days with the intervention, among others, of OTTO OF HABSBURG (91 years old), former deputy in the European Parliament and son of Charles I of Austria , beatified on 3 […]

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Fear and forgetting” “

“In Morocco half young people between the ages of 15 and 25 have just one idea: getting out… It’s not difficult to understand why”, says Archbishop VINCENT LANDEL of Rabat. He will be one of the participants at the symposium of African and European bishops to be held in Rome from 10 to 13 November, […]

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Charlotte Wyatt: the Linacre Centre’s opinion” “

“Why was the decision taken to suspend the treatment for Charlotte Wyatt? If the decision was due to the intention to put an end to a life to which, mistakenly, no value is given, then it is tantamount to euthanasia by omission. Each life has value and no life ought to be deliberately terminated because […]

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The Pope’s icon in the universities” “

After having ‘visited’ Scotland, the papal icon of Our Lady “Seat of Wisdom” arrived in England on 6 October. The image, a mosaic commissioned from the Slovene artist Marko Ivan Rupnik by the Pope on the occasion of the silver Jubilee of his pontificate, was welcomed by the Catholic community of Liverpool headed by Archbishop […]

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K. Bigley: condolences of Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor” “

“I am deeply saddened by the news of the killing of Kenneth Bigley”, declared the Catholic Primate of England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, archbishop of Westminster, commenting on the execution of the British hostage Kenneth Bigley, kidnapped in Iraq by Islamic terrorists of the Tawhid Wal Jihad (Monotheism and Holy War) group. “At this […]

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Parishes as protagonists ” “

After Vienna in 2003, the International Congress for the new evangelization will be held in Paris this year, from 23 October to 1st November. An opportunity for reflection and exchange, the congress will also be for Paris a week of evangelization, which is already mobilizing parishes and communities. It is a genuine city-wide event comprising […]

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Lithuania: Chesterton, Christianity and culture” “

“Scarred by the erosion of values, especially Christian values”: that’s how Cardinal Audrys Juozas Backis, archbishop of Vilnius and president of the Lithuanian Bishops’ Conference, defined “the cultural transition of post-Soviet Lithuania”. The archbishop was addressing the international conference held in Vilnius in recent weeks on “Christian values and culture today”, focused on the revival […]

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Croatia: a bilingual catechism for Romany children ” “

An elementary catechism for Romany children was presented in recent days at the research centre for Romany culture in Bjelovar (Croatia). The catechism forms part of the “Romany Weekend” programme. The director of the Catholic weekly Glas Koncilia, Nedjeljko Pintariæ, Sister Karolina Miljak, chairperson of the Committee for pastoral activities among Romanies of the Croatian […]

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Austria: letter of the bishops to the faithful” “

“We have a need for sincere and stronger cooperation in our Church”: that is the plea made by the Austrian bishops, who published a pastoral letter for Austrian Catholics on 7 October. The letter refers to the recent scandal in the St. Pölten seminary. “During the ‘Pilgrimage of Peoples’ to Mariazell in May this year, […]

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The best response” “” “

The vote with which the Justice, Public Liberties and Security Committee of the European Parliament rejected the candidature of Rocco Buttiglione, designated by the Italian government to the post of EU Commissioner, has arousing opposing reactions, not only in terms of the episode itself, but, more widely, in terms of the relation between the various […]

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