Prima del “fare”

Con il Convegno di Verona le comunità cristiane sono state capillarmente risvegliate ed aiutate a testimoniare Gesù risorto entro un contesto sociale e culturale in rapido mutamento. Basta pensare alla situazione generale e locale del precedente Convegno di Palermo (1995), caratterizzata da un’atmosfera di sollievo per la caduta della cortina di ferro nell’Est europeo e, […]

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Nella casa europea

La Chiesa italiana interroga se stessa e rilancia la propria testimonianza. È questo, in buona sostanza, il senso profondo del Convegno ecclesiale di Verona che si è espresso con la grande ricchezza dell’esperienza viva di incontro di popolo e con la fecondità delle riflessioni condivise, nel lungo cammino del Convegno. Guardando se stessa, la Chiesa […]

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PUGLIA

Nodi da sciogliere

La III Commissione del Consiglio regionale pugliese ha avviato le audizioni sulla proposta di legge (pdl) “Norme per il funzionamento dei Consultori familiari”, presentata da quattro consiglieri della maggioranza di centrosinistra. La proposta di legge prevede, tra l’altro, che la promozione della salute, la prevenzione e il trattamento delle principali patologie ginecologiche siano garantiti dalla […]

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FRONT PAGE

A compass for Europe

Many young people were also present at the European seminar held at Clermont Ferrand from 9 to 11 October on the initiative of Comece (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community) (cf. SirEurope 68 /2006). They included Johanna Touzel, press officer of Comece itself. We asked her for a reflection on Europe.Clermont-Ferrand, in […]

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Hungary: 50 years after the revolution of 1956

“May Hungary build a future free from any oppression and ideological conditioning!”. That’s the hope expressed by Benedict XVI in the message he sent to the President of the Republic of Hungary László Sólyom, on the occasion of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian uprising (23 October 1956). In his message, Benedict […]

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England: “no” to entrance quotas for schools

The amendment of the law on education, which would mean that schools run by the Catholic Church and funded by the British State would have to allocate a quarter of their places to pupils of other faiths, will be debated by the House of Lords on 30 October. “We oppose quotas because it would mean […]

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Northern Ireland: the peace process continues

“Positive”: that’s how Lord Eames, Primate of the Anglican Church of Ireland, the second most important Protestant church in Northern Ireland after the Presbyterian Church, called his meeting with Gerry Adams, President of Sinn Fein, the political party that represents the military wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), in Belfast on 23 October. Accompanied […]

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PORTUGAL

It’s always “yes” to life

Last Thursday, 19 October, the Portuguese Parliament approved the proposed referendum on abortion. The question that will be put to citizens, contained in the text proposed by the Socialist Party, will be: “Do you agree with the depenalization of the voluntary interruption of pregnancy, if carried out, at the woman’s choice, in the first 10 […]

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FRANCE

Appeal to the conscience

“What have you done to your brother?”: six months before the presidential, legislative and municipal elections due to take place in France in the spring of 2007, and in the run up to the Socialist primaries (on 16 November), the Permanent Council of the French Bishops’ Conference has chosen this title for a message addressed […]

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ITALY

The reasons for hope

The Fourth National Congress of the National Congress ended on Friday with a message to all the local Churches in Italy. Held in Verona from 16 to 20 October, the Congress had as its theme “Witnesses of the Risen Jesus, Hope of the world”. Both in its preparation and in its holding, it was structured […]

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