Proporre con gioia

Ai giovani, alle famiglie, ai fedeli laici nel loro insieme, va presentata l’Eucaristia non come rito vuoto, ma per quello che essa è “fonte e culmine” della vita della Chiesa stessa. È questo l’argomento centrale affrontato nel Sinodo dei vescovi in corso in Vaticano. Ecco stralci di alcuni degli interventi più recenti da parte dei […]

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Dentro la vita

I laici e la spiritualità eucaristica, il rapporto tra “cultura dell’immagine” e lo “stile” di San Francesco, suggerimenti su come “prendere la parola”, i pericoli del “fondamentalismo cristiano” e le sfide del “relativismo” e “secolarismo”, che si affacciano ormai anche in continenti “giovani” come l’Asia… Sono alcuni “spunti” del dialogo tra i padri sinodali sul […]

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European support for circus activities” “

The European Parliament, in its mini-session in Brussels last week, adopted a report by the German MEP Doris Pack aimed at defending the circus tradition in Europe as an “integral part of European culture” and promoting its transmission and knowledge. The report also examines the various problems that are emerging in this area, especially that […]

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Sostegno europeo alle attività circensi” “

Valorizzare la tradizione circense quale “parte integrante della cultura europea”; favorirne la conoscenza e la trasmissione. Ma, al contempo, verificare quali problemi emergono in questo ambiente, primo fra tutti quello di “una valida istruzione ai bambini delle comunità itineranti”. Il Parlamento europeo ha adottato nella minisessione di Bruxelles della scorsa settimana una relazione della deputata […]

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FRONT PAGE " "

The thoughts of Europe” “

The 11th ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on “The Eucharist: source and culmination of the life and mission of the Church” will end in the Vatican on Sunday 23 October. We cite below some passages from the interventions of the Synodal Fathers and some reflections that emerged from the discussion in the […]

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JOHN PAUL II " "

He’s always close to me ” “

On 16 October 1978 Cardinal Karol Wojtyla became Pope and from that day, for 26 years, John Paul II led the Church. His closest aides included Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, whom John Paul II called from the diocese of Munich, of which he was archbishop, to head the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. This […]

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ECUMEMISM " "

Russia: Cardinal Barbarin in Moscow” “

At the invitation of Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, archbishop of Lyon, is paying a visit to Russia from 15 to 19 October. The archbishop is accompanied by Régine Maire, delegate of the French Bishops’ Conference for ecumenism. As reported by the diocese of Lyon, the archbishop spent Sunday 16 October […]

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Anglicans: the Archbishop of York is Ugandan ” “

He’s the first black archbishop of the Anglican Church of England. He’s called John Sentamu and has assumed the post of Archbishop of York, the most important see of the Church of England after Canterbury. Born in Uganda 56 years ago, Sentamu is the sixth of 13 children. He was for many years a militant […]

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European meeting of theological faculties” “

The Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Graz (Austria) have announced that the Second Consultation of the European Theological Faculties will be held in Graz from 6 to 9 July 2006 on the theme “The challenges of theology in a pluralist society”. Some seventy representatives of Catholic, […]

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France: 40th anniversary of Nostra Aetate ” “

The Consistory of Paris and the Catholic Church will celebrate together the 40th anniversary of Vatican II’s Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions “Nostra Aetate” on Thursday 20 October. It’s a document that marked a fundamental stage in closer relations between Jews and Christians. This is the first time that French […]

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