Switzerland: 1st national meeting of Catholic youth” “

The Swiss bishops are preparing to hold the first national meeting of Swiss Catholic youth. The meeting will take place in the ice-rink of Bern and the adjacent Allmend park on 5 and 6 June 2004. The Pope will meet the youth on Sunday morning and preside over the Eucharist in the afternoon. The event […]

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monthly agenda" "

October 2003″ “

2 Audience of the Pope to the President of Lithuania Rolandas Paksas – Annual Assembly (2-5) of the Council of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe (CCEE), at Vilnius (Lithuania) 3 Ecumenical ceremony on the occasion of the “German Day of Unity” at Magdeburg 4 Audience of the Pope to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams […]

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Bosnia" "

A bad reform” “

A meeting between the bishops of the Bosnian Episcopal Conference was held at Travnik (Bosnia) in recent days. Discussion focused on the defence of the cultural and religious identity of the Catholic Croat minority in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the light of the threatened reform of the school system, aimed at “reuniting two schools under a single […]

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Gipsy apostolate in Spain” “

There “are no recipes” in pastoral work with gipsies. Only “by experience can we discover what needs to be done in the various places and at the various times”: that’s one of the conclusions of the meeting that brought together over a hundred Spanish gipsies (gitanes), priests, religious and laity at Alcalà de Henares from […]

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Bishops’ meeting” “

A document to commemorate the 25th anniversary of John Paul II’s pontificate, a planned European youth meeting at Santiago di Compostela in August 2004, and the request to the Holy See to declare Saint Genoveva Torres Morales “patron of the disabled”: these are just some of the topics to be discussed by the permanent Commission […]

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Spain" "

Missionaries for a “mundo solidario”” “

Spain is the country with the highest number of missionaries in the world. The majority are members of religious orders, mainly women. The statistics issued to coincide with the national missionary congress held by the Spanish Episcopal Conference at Burgos in recent days, speak of some 20,000 Spanish missionaries, 54.1% women and 45.9% men; of […]

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The Poor Clares of Malonne” “

A century ago a community of Poor Clares settled at Malonne (Namur). On 21 October 1903, expelled from France, some of the nuns took refuge in the “Ferme blanche” (White Farm) of Malonne. Three years later, in 1906, they moved to a more permanent home in the new convent of Tombois, where the community still […]

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"Dimanche Express", new Catholic weekly” “

“Dimanche Express”, the new Catholic weekly that replaces the previous “Dimanche”, a magazine with over half a century of history in French-speaking Belgium, was launched on 22 September: 47,000 copies of number zero, totally revamped in format and content, will be distributed gratis in the parishes that have requested them. “There is a serious shortage […]

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Belgium" "

An anti-war appeal by religious leaders” “

An appeal to the citizens and authorities of Belgium to promote peace in every sphere, accompanied by the firm rejection of exploiting the name of God to justify wars: that is the essence of a joint declaration issued by the Concertation of the Christian Churches, the central Jewish Consistory and the Moslem Executive of Belgium […]

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Spiritual exercises: "interest growing”” “

“Often the demand outstrips the supply”: that’s how Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the German Episcopal Conference, summed up the situation of spiritual exercises in Germany. Speaking at Bingen on the Rhine, on 18 September, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Addes, community of work of the German diocesan secretariats for spiritual exercises, […]

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