Austria: Katholikentag for Central Europe” “

A joint celebration of the Austrian bishops, currently meeting in their autumn plenary assembly, was held in St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna on 4 November. The mass was also celebrated to mark the Katholikentag of the Catholics of Central Europe MEKT). In the view of Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, president of the Episcopal Conference, Austrian Catholics […]

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France: does money rule the world?” “

“Does money rule the world?” To this question a five-week survey is being devoted by the French Catholic daily La Croix, also in preparation for the Social Week of French Catholics, to be held on the same theme in Paris from 14 to 16 November ( cf.SirEurope 72/2003). In its edition of 28 October La […]

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Spain: Church and human rights, parishes, healthcare” “

The Church and the defence of human rights; the parishes and the pastoral care of the sick; diocesan and religious publications: these are the three issues to be discussed at three separate meetings to be held in Spain in the days ahead, on the initiative of various offices and commissions of the Spanish Episcopal Commission. […]

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Convergence, not confusion” “

“To make the ship weigh anchor, everyone must first be on board”: a simple image to explain the need for a basic agreement between the member and candidate countries of Europe if a “European common home” is to be realised. As part of the programme of the COMECE plenary assembly on 30/31 October, a debate […]

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2004, a crucial year” “

Not just “Christian roots”: to construct a Europe that is extending its own frontiers eastwards and towards the Mediterranean, a Europe that is internally cohesive and the driving force of an international peace policy, a more comprehensive action is needed. Beginning with the drafting of a Constitution “that may recognise the basic values and the […]

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The tragedy of prejudice” “

According to 59% of Europeans, Israel represents a threat to peace: that would seem to be the result of a survey conducted by the European Commission which has caused huge controversy in political and diplomatic circles. The furore has taken Brussels by surprise. The president of the Commission, Romano Prodi, has announced that “Brussels will […]

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INFORMAZIONE: ISTITUTO REZZARA (VICENZA), “TENDENZIOSA” QUELLA DEI QUOTIDIANI, DOMINA LA “LOGICA DEL MERCATO”

” “Un’informazione “tendenziosa”, fatta da giornalisti spesso “non fedeli alla realtà”. E’, in sintesi, il “quadro” di un sondaggio condotto dall’Istituto Rezzara di Vicenza su “Come cambiano i lettori”, al centro della IX “Conferenza sull’informazione” in programma a Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza), il 10 e l’11 novembre, per iniziativa del citato Istituto, che da quarant’anni […]

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RIFORMA TRIBUNALI PER MINORENNI: FIZZOTTI (SALESIANI), ESSENZIALE IL “LAVORO A RETE”

“Il giudice non può lavorare da solo, ma collocandosi all’interno di un contesto in cui intervengano assistenti sociali, psicologi, pedagogisti, che aiutino i minori ad esprimere meglio i loro vissuti”. Eugenio Fizzotti, salesiano, del Centro di Locri, interviene in questi termini sulla riforma dei tribunali per i minorenni, bocciata alla Camera e oggi ancora al […]

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VOLONTARIATO: REVISIONE LEGGE 266/91, IL FORUM TERZO SETTORE, “AMPLIARE I MIGLIORAMENTI”

” “”Miglioramenti condivisibili” ma “da ampliare”, con qualche “preoccupazioni significativa”: questo il parere del Forum permanente del terzo settore che in un comunicato diffuso oggi “saluta positivamente l’accelerazione che gli ‘Stati generali del volontariato’ convocati dal governo l’8 novembre vogliono imprimere al processo di revisione della legge quadro 266/91”. Il Forum ha già dato un […]

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