Italy: 11,480 Catholic sites on line

Over the last ten years, over 13,000 Italian Catholic movements, associations and groups have opened websites on the Internet and, of these, 11,480 are still available on line. The point is made by Francesco Diani, coordinator of www.siticattolici.it, the web address that has recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. It was on 12 June 1997 – […]

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Georgia: a Christian reality show

A reality show aimed at adolescents was transmitted by the television channel run by the Patriarchate of Georgia on 11 June. The title of the programme is “48 Hours” and was produced to give a Christian response to “those immoral youth programmes that propagate aggression and violence”. “48 Hours” is a show in which the […]

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Belgium: “Read, seen and listened to for you”

“Read, seen and listened to for you” is the title of a new page on the internet site of the Belgian Catholic Church (www.catho.be). It’s a section that contains reviews of books, films and works of art, complemented with a list of religious bookshops in the country. Each film or book is presented with an […]

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portugal

Against civilization

The definitive version of Portugal’s new law on abortion (Law 16/2007 of 17 April) was published in the Diário da República (Official Gazzette) on 21 June. Amending article 142 of the Penal Code, it permits the interruption of pregnancy, “by choice of the woman”, down to the 10th week of the life of the foetus, […]

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ccee: universities

A difficult task

“Europe today needs to preserve and re-appropriate her authentic tradition if she is to remain faithful to her vocation as the cradle of humanism”, said BENEDICT XVI last Saturday on receiving in audience the 1,500 participants in the meeting of university lecturers held in Rome from 21 to 24 June on the theme “A new […]

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The duty to speak

What are the specific commitments that European university lecturers have to assume if Europe is once again to become capable of respecting its own identity, based on Christian roots, and in line with the process of integration begun fifty years ago with the treaties of Rome? We put this question to Giuseppe Dalla Torre, Rector […]

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european union

Race against time

“The constitutional project that consisted in the abrogation of all the existing treaties and their replacement by a single text denominated Constitution, is abandoned”. So declares the first lines of Annex 1 of the “Conclusions of the Presidency”, containing the nub of the decisions taken by the European Council in Brussels on 21-22 June. NEW […]

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PRIMA PAGINA

A velocità ridotta

Spenti i riflettori sul summit del 21 e 22 giugno, quale bilancio se ne può trarre? Il bicchiere è mezzo pieno o mezzo vuoto? Domande non superflue, queste, visto che i 27 leader protagonisti del vertice hanno provato a rispondervi, ciascuno dal proprio punto di vista.Quei capi di Stato e di governo che giudicano l’incontro […]

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Spagna: per i soldati uccisi in Libano

Con un telegramma inviato, il 25 giugno, al ministro della Difesa spagnolo, José Antonio Alonso Suárez, e all’ordinario militare, l’arcivescovo mons. Francisco Pérez González, la Conferenza episcopale spagnola esprime il proprio cordoglio per la morte, ieri in Libano in un attentato di matrice terroristica, di sei soldati iberici ed il ferimento di altri due, che […]

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Inghilterra: il pensiero rivolto a Gaza

Solidarietà e preghiera sono state espresse da mons. Patrick Kelly, arcivescovo di Liverpool e vicepresidente della Conferenza episcopale inglese, alla comunità cristiana di Gaza. In una lettera inviata il 21 giugno al parroco di Gaza, mons. Manuel Musallam, mons. Kelly, che lo scorso gennaio ha guidato in Terra Santa il gruppo dei presuli europei e […]

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