ELEZIONI EUROPEE: NEL PE CRESCONO GLI EUROSCETTICI

 Calano i votanti, crescono le forze politiche “euroscettiche” all’interno del Parlamento dell’Unione: i risultati delle elezioni per il rinnovo dell’Assemblea confermano i timori della vigilia e certo non costituiscono un segnalo positivo nel complessivo percorso dell’integrazione continentale. Luci accese fino a notte fonda nella sede di Bruxelles dell’Europarlamento dove sono confluiti i risultati delle consultazioni […]

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ELEZIONI EUROPEE: NOTA SETTIMANALE

Pubblichiamo la nota Sir di questa settimana – Recatisi in massa alle urne per il Parlamento europeo grazie anche all’abbinamento con il turno amministrativo generale, gli italiani hanno espresso un voto accorto.Se prendiamo i risultati delle europee per quello che l’avevano inteso i capi dei principali partiti, a partire dal presidente del Consiglio, e cioè […]

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PAPA: “EUCARISTIA CENTRO DELLA VITA DELLA CHIESA”

Nella domenica del 13 giugno, in cui la Chiesa italiana (e di altri Paesi) ha celebrato la solennità del Corpo e del Sangue di Cristo, Giovanni Paolo II è tornato a sottolineare l’importanza dell’Eucarestia: “L’Eucaristia – ha detto il Pontefice all’Angelus – sta al centro della vita della Chiesa. In essa Cristo si offre al […]

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Dailies and periodicals” “

The summit of the G8 and the new UN resolution on Iraq monopolise the attention of the international press. “Iraq, victory of Bush at the UNO”, is the front-page headline in Le Monde (10/6), over an article pointing out that “the UN Security Council unanimously adopted, on 8 June, Resolution 1546 that organises the passage […]

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"Meeting with others"” “

“The humanism of Bonhoeffer was profoundly rooted in the life, death and resurrection of Christ”, but, at the same time, was “forged by the meeting with others, and shaped by suffering and by the struggle for truth and justice. He affirmed, in spite of everything, “the goodness of man against perversion, hope against despair and […]

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France: a Europe for peace” “

The massacre occurred at eight o’clock in the morning on 10 June 1944. The Nazis entered the little town of Oradour-sur Glane and, as they passed through, killed in cold blood 642 civilians, including 246 women and 207 children. Sixty years after that tragic day, the town commemorated the massacre with a series of events: […]

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Portugal, remembering de Sousa Mendes” “

The Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes will be commemorated on the fiftieth anniversary of his death on 17 June by a series of commemorative masses in Portugal, New York, Rome, the Vatican and in other churches and synagogues throughout the world, and by the award of an international prize to Cardinal Raffaele Renato Martino […]

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CCEE: episcopal secretaries meet in Belgrade ” “

While European citizens are busily renewing the members of the European Parliament, the general secretaries of the European Episcopal Conferences are meeting in Belgrade (10-13 June). The main issues to be discussed are European unification, the role of Christianity and the Churches in present-day Europe and the process of drafting and approving the European constitutional […]

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The value of loneliness” “

People get married later and with greater awareness, but more often they remain “single”, a highly respectable status, a vocation in no way inferior to marriage: so say the bishops of England and Wales. In its latest document of social doctrine entitled “Cherishing Life”, the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has recognised the positive […]

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Beyond the confines” “

There were some 70,000 in the Almend park, near Bern, to attend the mass celebrated by the Pope on Sunday 6 June. A number that astonished the various commentators in the Swiss press. Coming from every canton, the young gathered round the Pope, and together with them there were also Italians, Poles, French, Germans, Spaniards… […]

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