COMMISSIONE EUROPEA

Con parole diverse

“Dobbiamo sostenere il patrimonio linguistico dei Paesi europei, ma dobbiamo anche comprenderci reciprocamente all’interno dell’Ue e capire i nostri vicini”: LEONARD ORBAN ha assunto dal 1° gennaio la carica di commissario al multilinguismo, un settore della politica comunitaria che finora non aveva un portafoglio ad hoc. Per questa ragione l’Esecutivo Barroso ha definito un'”agenda politica” […]

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Un laicato che accoglie

Il laicato nel campo delle migrazioni, dopo il Convegno ecclesiale di Verona. Di questo si è discusso nei giorni scorsi a Palermo nel corso del convegno annuale dei direttori regionali della Fondazione Cei Migrantes che ha avuto per tema “Il laicato nella mobilità: opportunità e difficoltà”. La partecipazione dei laici nel servizio socio-pastorale ai migranti […]

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EMILIA ROMAGNA

Come gli altri

Una legge regionale per tutelare i diritti dei carcerati. La proposta è stata presentata nei giorni scorsi all’assemblea legislativa dell’Emilia Romagna dai gruppi politici di maggioranza, sotto il titolo “Disposizioni per la tutela delle persone limitate e private legalmente della libertà nella regione Emilia Romagna”. Un provvedimento che si propone d’intervenire “in tutti i settori […]

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The three paths

To respond to the challenges of secularisation, Christians in Europe are called to pursue some paths together with greater conviction. That’s the main indication that emerged from the ecumenical meeting held in recent days at Wittemberg, city of Martin Luther, in preparation for the Third European Ecumenical Assembly due to be held in Sibiu from […]

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Germany: terrorists, pardon or repentance?

“In principle, the act of pardon is always granted in an unconditional and gratuitous manner; it is and remains a gift”, declared the Bishop of Trier, Reinhard Marx, interviewed by the daily Saarbrücker Zeitung on 19 February, with regard to rumours about the possibility of the President of the Federal Republic Horst Köhler granting a […]

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Ireland: anti-alcohol campaign during Lent

“This Pastoral Letter is an attempt to initiate a debate that will help us to gradually change our unhealthy attitudes towards alcohol”, said Bishop Eamonn Walsh, vice-chair of the Irish Bishops’ Drugs and Alcohol Initiative. The Bishop, speaking in Dublin on Sunday 18 February, Day of Prayer for Temperance, was presenting the pastoral letter of […]

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Poland: the clergy ask for forgiveness

The Ash Wednesday of the Polish clergy was wholly dedicated to penance and to the request for forgiveness. Polish priests were thus responding to the appeal for reconciliation and trust between priests and faithful, made by the bishops on 14 January, after the case of Monsignor Wielgus, who had been accused of having collaborated with […]

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LENT

Germany: 40 different days

“Trust to live 40 days in a different way”: that’s the name of the Lenten project of the diocesan radio station of Cologne, Dom Radio. Each day of Lent, from the website www.domradio.de, either as podcast or with the system “Video on demand”, it is possible to download a video message from the Capuchin friar […]

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Austria: fasting from use of the car and prayer e-mails

Fasting from use of the car: that’s what the Catholic and Evangelical Churches of Upper Austria and the diocese of Linz are asking of their faithful for Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday. The aim is to help protect the climate and conserve the creation. Participants are asked to register on the website www.autofasten.at. “The […]

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Slovenia: “Christians should read Holy Scripture”

The Slovene Church is celebrating 2007 as “Year of Holy Scripture”. The motto of the event is “We announce to you the word of life” (1 Jn 1:1). And linked to this theme, the bishops have published a pastoral letter for Lent, which was read out in all parishes on Sunday 11 and 18 February. […]

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