IL PAPA ALL’ANGELUS, “L’UMANITÀ È SEGNATA DALLO SCONVOLGENTE DILAGARE DEL TERRORISMO”

” “E’ tornato a parlare di terrorismo ieri il papa, affacciandosi nel cortile del Palazzo apostolico di Castel Gandolfo per la recita dell’Agenlus. ” “”Dinanzi al male, che in varie forme si manifesta nel mondo – ha detto il Santo Padre – l’uomo, afflitto e sconcertato, si domanda: ‘Perché?’. In quest’alba del terzo millennio, benedetta […]

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Are the foundations solid?” “” “

One Union, but multiple identities. Now that the frontiers of the EU have been extended and the signing of the Constitution approaches (scheduled for 29 October), some questions that have always accompanied the history of continental integration are re-emerging: recently several academics have posed anew the question of the European identity. This is a key […]

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Comece: studying the new Europe at university” “

The sixth “summer university” was held at Smolenice, close to Bratislava (Slovakia), from 11-14 September. This annual event, promoted by COMECE, is intended to bring together youth who work for and in collaboration with the European Church organization. This year – says COMECE in a press release – the meeting is the first to be […]

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Ccee: presidents of the European Churches due to meet in Leeds (GB)” “

Checking the state of health of Christianity, its relations with other religions and its role in helping to defuse fundamentalism and terrorism: that’s the main aim of the meeting of the presidents of the 34 Episcopal Conferences that form part of the CCEE, to be held in Leeds from 30 September to 3 October. The […]

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"Man and religions" meeting in Lyon in 2005″ “

“I only hope that the witness of men and women of God, united in condemning every form of violence, especially that which takes religion as a pretext, may touch many people in France and elsewhere”. With this hope, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, archbishop of Lyon, welcomed the decision – announced by Andrea Riccardi at the end […]

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International conference of priests in Malta” “

“It’s a great honour for our country that the authority of the universal Church has chosen the Maltese islands, the islands of St. Paul, for a meeting that will bring together hundreds of priests from all over the world. But it’s not only an honour. It’s also a particularly challenging responsibility”. The point is made […]

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Lithuania: the "Baltic way"” “

A “memorable human chain” that testified to the presence of a “living community, united by the hope of obtaining freedom of conscience, human dignity and the spiritual and economic well-being of society”: that’s how the Lithuanian bishops recalled in recent days the peaceful anti-Soviet demonstration for freedom that mobilised some two million Estonians, Latvians and […]

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Life always has value” “

“It is deeply misguided to propose a law by which it would be legal for terminally ill people to be killed or assisted in suicide by those caring for them”; such a step “would fundamentally undermine the basis of law and medicine and undermine the duty of the state to care for vulnerable people”. In […]

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A thousand priests and a million students” “

In contact with a “student population” amounting to one million people, universities may play “an essential and strategic role in the construction of the new Europe”, in a world “characterised by globalization, multiculturalisn and confrontation with the Islamic world and the sects”. This is the presupposition round which the Council of the European Episcopal Conferences […]

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In the "piazza" of the future” “

United Europe depends on the new generations. Some 70 youth representing the various countries of the Mediterranean area attended the Forum of Mediterranean youth, held at the John Paul II Centre in Loreto (Italy) from 1-13 September. The countries of the Mediterranean are so close to each other geographically, but at the same time so […]

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