Paolo – La vita nella Chiesa

Cari fratelli e sorelle, oggi completiamo i nostri incontri con l’apostolo Paolo, dedicandogli un’ultima riflessione. Non possiamo infatti congedarci da lui, senza prendere in considerazione una delle componenti decisive della sua attività e uno dei temi più importanti del suo pensiero: la realtà della Chiesa. Dobbiamo anzitutto constatare che il suo primo contatto con la […]

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Esperienza che continua (6)

Ad un mese dalla conclusione, continua il nostro “viaggio” tra i primi bilanci e suggerimenti delle diocesi italiane su come proseguire l’impegno pastorale sul territorio dopo il Convegno ecclesiale nazionale di Verona.Un calendario speciale. Un calendario-agenda pastorale per l’anno 2006-2007, per “approfondire e rilanciare i temi espressi in occasione del quarto Convegno ecclesiale nazionale”. È […]

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Portugal: Church and spiritual assistants for hospitals

The Portuguese Church is planning to introduce next February an innovative post-graduate course for those who work in hospital pastoral care. The venture, which will be started up simultaneously in Porto and Lisbon, can count on the support of the UCP (Faculty of Theology and Institute of Sciences of Health), of the National Commission of […]

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GERMANY

A disappointing compromise

The German Bishops’ Conference (DKB) has called “disappointing” the compromise reached by the conference of home affairs ministers on the regularization of the right to permanent residence of tolerated foreigners and has deplored in particular the having made the right to permanent residence conditional on whether an immigrant is already in regular employment. The negative […]

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Adveniat for Mexico

Migration is at the centre of Adveniat 2006, the charity of the German Bishops’ Conference for Latin America. Latin America is the area with the highest rate of migration in the world. This year’s campaign is focused on the example of Mexico to make people understand what it is that forces people into emigration, the […]

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Vocation Year

“I hope for a jolt in our society, not only in the Church. Each must feel he/she is called, wherever he be, and wherever God has called him”, declared the Right Rev. Gebhard Fürst, bishop of Stuttgart-Rottenburg, to the representatives of the press on 17 November, on the occasion of “Vocation Year”, officially called in […]

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FAITH AND CULTURE

Searching for identity

“The common good concerns every person and may ask for sacrifices: everything revolves round the principle of responsibility”, declared the Right Rev. ADRIANUS VAN LUYN, bishop of Rotterdam and President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (Comece), speaking in recent days at a round table on “Christian faith and future […]

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YOUTH

After Erasmus and Socrates

An on-line magazine published in seven languages (including Polish and Catalan) by the “eurogeneration”, youth aged around 25 who are no longer satisfied with the traditional national media and want to tackle questions with a European approach: that’s the project of Cafebabel.com, which is based in Paris and has a network of 20 local editorial […]

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

“The challenges that await us”

The future of the Eu and that of the Constitution; the Directive for the liberalization of the services sector; the Turkish question; relations between European institutions and citizens: these were just some of the issues debated during the plenary session of the European Parliament (13-16 November), which also provided an occasion to sound out the […]

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FRONT PAGE

The cathedrals of the 21st century

In recent days the bishop of Gap (France) Jean-Michel di Falco Leandri, who is also the new chairman of the Commission for the Media of the Council of the European Bishops’ Conferences (Ccee), offered a reflection to mark the 10th anniversary of the French Christian Radio (Rcf) of the Hautes Alpes region. The following reflection […]

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