Catholic Archbishop Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, President of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and spiritual leader of four million English Catholics, has recommended that any military reaction to Islamic terrorism should represent a last resort, to which recourse should be had only after all the other options – political, legal and diplomatic – have been […]

“At the political level, Europe could play a valuable role in the continent and in the world; at the juridical level, EU law is destined increasingly to have an impact on national laws”. The point is made by Msgr. Attilio Nicora, emeritus bishop of Verona and vice-president of COMECE, summarizing the contribution of the Italian […]

“The keynote address of the Cardinal President – says the final communiqué of the permanent Episcopal Council held in Pisa from 24 to 27 September – gave voice to the reflection and concern of the Bishops and of Italian Catholics in response to the unprecedented and totally unexpected terrorist act of 11 September, which stunned […]

The dialogue with Islam as a weapon against terrorism: a document of the German bishops The social integration of immigrants of Islamic faith, a problem long felt in Germany, is experiencing a difficult moment at the moment, in the aftermath of the American tragedy. If on the one hand provisions restrictive of immigration are called […]

The first informal meeting of NATO Ministers of Defence after the attacks against the United States, originally scheduled to be held in Pozzuoli but then transferred to Brussels for security reasons, was an occasion for the Alliance to express its condolences to the families of the victims and to reaffirm its solidarity with the American […]

Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel, EU Commissioner for External Relations Christopher Patten and EU Senior Representative for Foreign Policy and Joint Security (PESC) Javier Solana were the members of the European Troika which, on the mandate of the extraordinary European Council, undertook a five-day mission to the Mid-East, visiting some of the main Islamic capitals. […]

“Terrorism represents a real challenge for the world and for Europe. The European Council has decided that the struggle against terrorism will increasingly represent a priority objective of the European Union. However, the European Union solemnly rejects any identification between groups of fanatical terrorists and the Arab and Moslem world”. By enunciating these two propositions, […]

What can the European Union do in the current situation of international crisis?: the view of Paul Magnette of the University of Brussels Paul Magnette is associate director of the Institute of European Studies at the Free University of Brussels, as well as the author of numerous publications on the institutional system of the European […]

“Today too there are crosses: those two destroyed skyscrapers are like the Cross above the earth. We must form projects for learning and teaching love” After the terrorist attacks that recently struck the United States, a fervent appeal for peace has been made by Cardinal Miloslav Vlk , Archbishop of Prague. In the 1970s, Vlk […]

Il ministero patriarcale è l’equivalente – “servatis servandis” – del ministero petrino nell’ecclesiologia orientale”. La precisazione è di Sua Beatitudine Grégoire III Laham, patriarca di Antiochia dei greco-melkiti (Siria), intervenendo ieri pomeriggio alla settima Congregazione generale della X Assemblea generale ordinaria del Sinodo dei vescovi. “Non è corretto – ha detto – annoverare il Sinodo […]