Ritrovare le radici

Oltre 400 giovani in arrivo dalla Puglia a confermarlo il vicepresidente della Federazione pugliesi d’Australia, Felice Montrone. A Sydney da oltre 30 anni, Montrone è molto conosciuto nella comunità italo-australiana. Ha ricoperto diverse cariche, come quella del segretario del Comites, il Comitato degli italiani residenti all’estero, e presidente della associazione imprenditori pugliesi, mentre tra quelli […]

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VENETO

Più controllo, più qualità

Ritarda nel Veneto la legge che dovrà disciplinare il futuro delle Ipab, le Istituzioni pubbliche di assistenza e beneficenza istituite dalla legge 6972 del 1890, voluta dal Crispi per porre un controllo statale a opere di interesse sociale nate in forma privata, spesso in ambito cattolico. Sono passati sette anni dal decreto 207 del 2001 […]

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UMBRIA

In famiglia è meglio

Il Consiglio regionale dell’Umbria ha approvato, di recente, a maggioranza il “Fondo per la non autosufficienza”. 31 milioni di euro per favorire la permanenza in ambito familiare dei pazienti da assistere. Il Consiglio ha anche approvato tre emendamenti che ammettono la possibilità di integrare il Fondo con risorse private. La finalità del Fondo è assistere […]

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FRONT PAGE

Why, Ireland?

What are the underlying motivations which led the majority of Irish voters to say “no” to the Lisbon Treaty? What will be the repercussions upon the document’s ratification procedure? Which strategies could prevent a new standstill in the community’s integration process? These are hanging questions, which have been circulating these days in all EU environments. […]

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EU

What way out?

“Preparation of the European Council following the referendum in Ireland”: a simple amendment of the order of the day for the European Parliament session now underway in Strasbourg (16-19 June) marks the climate of uncertainty and trepidation that reigns in the EU’s institutional headquarters. The vote by which the Irish people rejected the ratification of […]

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Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

Italy: hospital, parish, territory”Hospital, parish, territory, these are the places for health promotion”. This was the topic of the tenth national conference of the directors of diocesan offices for health pastoral care. The meeting, held the past few days in Chianciano Terme (Italy), was promoted by the office for health pastoral care of Italy’s Bishops’ […]

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CCEE

Church and media

“The relation between the Churches and the mass media needs as a matter of urgency to be developed in a complex historical period in which so much disinformation is being disseminated about the Church”, said Cardinal Péter Erdõ, President of the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE) in his keynote address opening the […]

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ECUMENISM

Kek, Romania, Anglicans, Orthodox

Cec/Kek: congratulations to Monsignor GiordanoThe Conference of European Churches (CEC/KEK) has issued a communiqué expressing its congratulations to Mgr. Giordano, general secretary of the CCEE, for his appointment as permanent Observer of the Holy See to the Council of Europe, a post he will officially assume in Strasbourg on 1st September. The Rev. Jean-Arnold de […]

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FRANCE

With boldness and prudence

“For the past 25 years, following the appeal of the Second Vatican Council that sought an adequate response to the needs of candidates to ordained ministry, a series of initiatives were undertaken in France”. “Propaedeutic years were thus set up to prepare candidates in view of their entrance in the seminary, with different contents and […]

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CULTURE

The Church must “expose” itself

In 2015 Milan (Italy) will be hosting the Expo. Is this an opportunity also for the Church? Msgr. Josef Homeyer, bishop emeritus of Hildesheim, who experienced Hannover’s Expo 2000 is sure it is. He spoke about it exclusively for Sir. New religiosity, new culturality. As is known, experience is more effective than arguments and statistics. […]

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