Auschwitz: memory, conscience and responsibility

Nobel Peace Prize-winner Elie Wiesel has proposed that a summit of the G8 be held at Auschwitz. He did so at the conference “Memory – Conscience – Responsibility”, held in recent days at the former Nazi concentration camp in Poland. According to Wiesel, who also hoped for a session of the UNO at Auschwitz, “the […]

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Shops to be closed during main annual festivities

The trades-unionists of Solidarnosc have welcomed the introduction of a ban on commercial activities in the 12 days of the year that correspond to the main national and religious festivities. The provision will permit “shopkeepers to remain at home with their families and relax during those holidays”, said Alfred Bujara, chairman of the trades-union organization […]

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Lustracja, need to be guided by charity

The document “Truth and Responsibility” was recently published by the theological and pastoral Commission “Memory and solicitude” of the archdiocese of Krakow, dedicated to the divulging of information on collaborators of the Communist secret services. The document, stressed the chairman of the Commission, Bishop Jan Szkodon, is aimed at tackling the risk “of compromising the […]

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SWITZERLAND

Any dispute about the Mass in latin

“Only if the Council is considered a grand evolution within the tradition, instead of a break from the tradition of the Church, and if the post-Council liturgical reform is similarly considered can the goal pursued by the Pope with his Motu Proprio be properly judged”. It was said by mgr. Kurt Koch, president of the […]

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“Dialogue must continue”

On the same day on which the Vatican document “Responses to Some Questions regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church” was published, the President of the Swiss Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Kurt Koch drew up an “Introduction” that is available on the website of the Bishops’ Conference www.sbk-ces.ch. The document – says a statement […]

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60 years of dialogue between Christians and Jews

The “International Emergency Conference against Anti-Semitism” is celebrating its 60th anniversary. Founded at Seelisberg in 1947, the Conference is composed of the Swiss Federation of Jewish communities, the Federation of the Protestant Churches of Switzerland and the Swiss Conference of Catholic Bishops. The anniversary was commemorated in recent days by the representatives of the three […]

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ECUMENISM

Orthodox Church: more honesty less diplomacy

“If there is to be a sincere theological dialogue, we need to have clear ideas about what are the principles to which the other side subscribes. This helps to judge the degree of our differences”, said Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk, head of the Department of External Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, commenting on the […]

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Protestants: proposing new paths of dialogue

The Protestant Federation of France (FPF) intends to pursue dialogue with Catholics “with a view to the unity without uniformity of Christians”, says a communiqué issued by the FPF on the same day that the document on the unicity of the Church was published by the Vatican. “It is legitimate – says the communiqué – […]

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Catholics (Belgium): inclusive vision

“The statement (which the only Church of Christ) ‘subsists within the Catholic Church’ was interpreted in different ways during forty years. A few interpretations were relativistic: ‘The Church of Christ would subsist in all the Christian Churches indifferently’. But the current document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith points out the exact […]

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EUROPEAN UNION

A new Treaty?

“I am ready to tackle the difficulties that could arise especially during the final phase of the negotiations. But one thing is clear: our task is not to change the mandate we have received” from the summit in June, “but to transform it into a new treaty”, says Portuguese Premier JOSÉ SOCRATES , who currently […]

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