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With "mind, heart and hands"” “

Everything is now ready for the Katholikentag of the Catholics of Central Europe (MEKT), organized by eight Episcopal Conferences of the region (Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic and Hungary). The event was decided on 8 January 2002. Prepared by collateral events, symposia and meetings, it will culminate in the “pilgrimage of peoples” […]

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England and Wales: abortion, irresponsible silence” “

“An appalling affront to the proper rights and responsibilities of parents. It undermines the values of family life”: that’s how Archbishop Peter Smith, chairman of the Department of Christian Responsibility and Citizenship of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, comments on the decision of a British health worker in Nottinghamshire, in northern England, “to […]

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France: new rules of collegiality ” “

The French episcopate has made two innovations in its corporate government: the presence of a second vice-chairman and new rules for the representation of bishops within its permanent Council. The new provisions will also take account of the territorial composition of the dioceses, and also the seniority of bishops. The French bishops took these decisions […]

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Lithuania: Card. Silvestrini at the jubilee of St. Casimir” “

The “memory of the oppressions of the past”, and the encouragement to the Lithuanian population to “bring their witness of faith and Christian traditions to the European context” in response “to the challenges of today’s secularised and consumer-minded society”: these were the two main points at the centre of the homily that the Prefect emeritus […]

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Nothing can justify it” “

Distancing ourselves from the USA or renouncing our mission in Iraq: this would seem to be the ultimatum given to the Prime Minister Tony Blair by his own Labour ministers, worried that the scandal of the abuses in Abu Ghraib prison and other Iraqi jails may lead to the Labour Party losing the next elections […]

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Protestants: criticism of EU refugee policy” “

The Protestant Churches are asking the European Union to improve its policies for the protection of refugees and criticise the procedures being implemented by the member states, which by shifting responsibility from one country to another are realizing what is tantamount to a “chain of deportation” in the continent. The plea to the EU is […]

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CEC: concerns and hopes for rural areas” “

Depopulation and impoverishment of rural areas, loss of identity of its inhabitants and diffusion of a generalised feeling of impotence towards a system of ever more aggressive intensive farming: these are some of the dangers that the inhabitants of rural areas in Europe feel with particular anxiety. The impact that the process of European integration […]

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Russia: meeting of the Catholic-Orthodox Committee” “

The first meeting of the “bilateral work group” on the problems posed in relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church was held in Moscow on 5-6 May. At the end of the meeting Father Vsevolod Chaplin, vice-president of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Patriarchate of Moscow, and Father Igor Kovalevsky, secretary […]

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Ripartire da 25 ” “

L’Europa è anche, forse soprattutto, questione di consapevolezza. Non il semplice prodotto di una architettura istituzionale, bensì una paziente opera di costruzione che passa attraverso le coscienze. Indica “tempi lunghi” il cardinale Attilio Nicora per completare l’allargamento dell’Unione europea. Varesino, classe 1937, giovanissimo vescovo ausiliare di Milano nel ’77, è stato vescovo di Verona per […]

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La politica come servizio ” “

Il Consiglio Generale della Mosella ed il “Centro europeo Robert Schuman” (Cers), firmatari il 9 maggio 2000 di una convenzione di partenariato al fine di promuovere l’opera dello statista, hanno organizzato nei giorni scorsi a Scy- Chazelles, città a 4 km da Metz dove Schuman (“padre dell’Europa” con Konrad Adenauer e Alcide De Gasperi), ha […]

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