Il primo accordo mondiale

“Una forte sottolineatura della dimensione sociale e solidale della medicina e le scienze della vita, anche a livello internazionale”. E’ questo per GONZALO MIRANDA, decano della facoltà di Bioetica dell’ateneo pontificio Regina Apostolorum, “il maggiore contributo” della Dichiarazione universale di bioetica che l’Unesco (www.unesco.org) sta preparando e che sarà verosimilmente approvata nel corso della prossima […]

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The Church and the world of the business” “” “

The custody and management of resources, the production of profit and wealth have been key elements for the development of the economy. Throughout the centuries the Judeo-Christian tradition has fostered and developed a sense of responsibility for the conscientious use of the material and human resources of the earth. Catholic social teaching in particular has […]

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Thoughts, experiences, projects” “

The annual meeting of the general secretaries of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE) at St. Gallen (Switzerland, 26-30 May 2005) focused on a number of important issues such as the preaching of the Gospel in Europe, bioethical questions, ecumenism, the relation of the Church with the European institutions; issues that continue to be at […]

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Ireland: Churches condemn violence” “

The attacks of radical groups continue in Northern Ireland, in spite of the recent declaration of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) that it is laying down its arms and renouncing any form of violent struggle to obtain its goals. Places of work, homes, schools and even churches are all the targets of attacks. So it […]

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Germany: Cardinal Lehmann for Darfur” “

Cardinal Karl Lehmann, Archbishop of Mainz and president of the German Bishops’ Conference has appealed for “attention to be aroused and solidarity expressed for the suffering populations of Darfur, who are deprived of all their rights”. He condemned “the massive violations of human rights” in the Sudanese region during a press conference held in Bonn […]

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Spain, pastoral care in prisons and more humane justice” “

Prison chaplains in Spain call it “restorative justice”, or “humanized justice that respects the dignity of those who have taken the wrong turning in life, helps them to assume responsibility for their own errors, and encourages reparation to be made for the harm caused”: Bishop Vicente Jiménez Zamora of Osma-Soria, delegate for pastoral care in […]

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Churches and religions in the EU” “

The annual European Political Forum was held at Alpbach, in Austria, from 28 to 31 August. It was attended, among others, by the Foreign Ministers of the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro, Romania and Georgia and members of the European Commission and Parliament. Part of the programme was dedicated to the role of the churches […]

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France: meeting of the Dombes group” “

There has been a change of guard in the Catholic co-chairmanship of the Dombes Group, the group founded in 1937 that brings together some forty French-speaking Catholic and Protestant theologians to discuss the most controversial issues of ecumenical dialogue. Jean-François Chiron, priest of the diocese of Chambéry and professor at the Faculty of Theology and […]

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CEC: towards the Ecumenical Assembly” “

The Third European Ecumenical Assembly due to be held in Sibiu, in Romania, in 2007, is “fully” supported by the Orthodox and Protestant Churches of the country. This is one of the findings of the first visit that the president of the Conference of European Churches (CEC), Jean-Arnold de Clermont, made to the Romanian Churches […]

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Ethics and finance” “

The July-August number of “Europe infos”, the monthly of the Commission of the episcopates of the European Community (COMECE) and of the Catholic Office of Information and Initiative for Europe (OCIPE), is entirely dedicated to the question of ethical investments. The director of the periodical and general secretary of COMECE, NOËL TREANOR , introduces the […]

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