INTERNET: CEI, I SITI CATTOLICI E LE “PERSONE SULLA SOGLIA”

I siti cattolici presenti in Internet sono spesso un “approdo” per “persone in cerca di orientamenti e di consiglio”: persone che stanno sulla “soglia”, che “scrutano la nostra identità” e alle quali è necessario offrire proposte di “qualità”, anche quando si utilizzano gli strumenti telematici. A sottolinearlo è stato Giuseppe Romano, docente di comunicazione interattiva […]

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IMMIGRAZIONE: CARITAS E MIGRANTES, “NO AD UNA LEGGE PER UN IMMIGRATO ‘USA E GETTA'”

“E i diritti della persona immigrata?” E’ la domanda che si pone don Giancarlo Perego, responsabile dell’area nazionale di Caritas italiana, che interviene al Sir a commento del testo di legge sull’immigrazione approvato ieri dal Senato e ora all’esame della Camera. Per don Perego questo disegno di legge non si prende cura della “salvaguardia dei […]

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IMMIGRAZIONE: CARITAS E MIGRANTES, “NO AD UNA LEGGE PER UN IMMIGRATO ‘USA E GETTA'” (2)

Don Perego si dice contrario anche alla limitazione dei ricongiungimenti familiari ai soli figli minorenni perché “non rispetta le esigenze delle famiglie di integrarsi sul nostro territorio” e, a proposito del “giro di vite” sulle espulsioni chiede “molta attenzione”, perché “l’immigrazione clandestina ha due volti: ce n’è una all’interno della malavita e va combattuta fortemente […]

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The Pope’s "design"” “

“Anti-historic and offensive for the fathers of the new Europe, among whom a pre-eminent place is due to Alcide De Gasperi”: that’s the Pope’s verdict on the absence of the indispensable link between Europe and the Gospel in the Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union. The Pope made this pronouncement on receiving in […]

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An agency for food safety” “

The new EU framework legislation on food safety came into force on 21 February. The Regulation, “containing the general principles and general provisions of food legislation, is accompanied both by the formal opening of the European Authority for food safety (whose provisional seat, while awaiting a decision of the Council, is in Brussels), and the […]

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The European Convention begins its work” “

The composition of the Convention’s Presidium has been finalized: Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (F), President; Giuliano Amato (I), Vice-President; Jean-Luc Dehaene (B), Vice-President; Representatives of the Governments; Ana de Palacio (E), Henning Christophersen (DK), Giorgos Katiforis (GR); Representatives of the Commission: Michel Barnier (F), Antonio Vitorino (P); Representatives of the European Parliament: Klaus Hänsch (D-PSE), Iñigo […]

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Spain: the new vice-president of the episcopate” “

On 3rd March, Swiss citizens will vote for the second time on whether they want Switzerland to join the United Nations: an option they had rejected en masse in 1986. It should however be pointed out that Switzerland has enjoyed the status of observer since 1948. The UN and the international organizations are the main […]

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Spain: the new vice-president of the episcopate” “

The president and vice-president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference were elected for the three-year period 2002-2005 by the general Assembly of the Spanish bishops (being held in Madrid till 1st March) on 26 February. Cardinal Antonio-Maria Rouco Varela, archbishop of Madrid, was reconfirmed in the post of president, while Msgr. Fernando Sebastian Aguilar, archbishop of […]

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Italy: teachers of religion write to the government” “

Greater “attention to the voluntary choice of families”, more “dignity” for the discipline of religious education in schools, more commitment to the “requalification” of teachers: these, in short, are the main requests made by Catholic teachers of religion in Italy to the world of education and the process of reform now underway. The occasion for […]

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Switzerland: homosexual cohabitation is not a family ” “

“The cohabitation of homosexuals, though it may be registered before a public official, cannot have juridical effects similar to those of marriage between heterosexuals”. This is the sense of a memorandum of 26 February in which the Swiss bishops express their reasoned evaluation of a “preliminary draft for a new federal law concerning the registered […]

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