Albania: a new church at Gurez” “

Twelve years after the first Dehonian missionaries arrived in Albania, a new church, the church of the “Madonna of Good Counsel”, was consecrated in the presence of Archbishop Rrrok Mirdita of Durazzo-Tirana at Gurez in the province of Laç, in central Albania, on 5 April. This is the third time that a church has been […]

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"Nothing does not exist": a reflection by Olivier Clément” “

“Everything starts out from Christ, everything flows from him. Jesus who denounces the temptation to have enemies to project onto them one’s own anxiety (…) and who throws into history, like a wound and like a ferment, the revelation of the full humanity of each person, sits down at the table of sinners, goes to […]

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The southern hemisphere also at the 12th KEK assembly ” “

The 12th assembly of the KEK (Conference of the European Churches) will be held at Trondheim, in Norway, from 25 June to 2 July. “Jesus Christ heals and reconciles. Our witness in Europe”: that’s the theme of the meeting that will be attended by some 800 participants, half of them delegates of KEK’s 126 Orthodox, […]

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Thinking about the faith "in feminist terms"” “

“Feminist theologies interrogate theology”: that’s the theme of the lecture given in Strasbourg last week by the Protestant theologian Elisabeth Parmentier as part of the cycle of meetings promoted by the research unit “Women and men – Gender in Christianity”, a group animated by the Dominican Hervé Legrand. Mainly aimed at a Catholic public, the […]

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A moral obligation” “

What’s the role of the European Union for the material and democratic reconstruction of Iraq? And what’s the EU’s relations with America, on the one hand, and the nascent Iraqi authorities, on the other? Will the member countries be able to overcome the deepest divisions in their history caused by the Anglo-American war against Saddam? […]

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Dailies and periodicals” “

Attention is devoted to the Pope in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 17/04. In his article “the future projects of the Pope“, Heinz-Joachim Fischer says that “ the strength of the Pope seems weakened, but not broken” and notes, with regard to the celebrations of Holy Week, that “it seems to some almost as if […]

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Switzerland: bishops ‘indignant’ about the federal campaign against Aids” “

The Swiss bishops, in a press release issued on 16 April, have expressed their indignation about “the ‘Stop Aids’ campaign” just launched by the Federal Office of Public Health. “With slogans such as ‘Protect your neighbour as yourself… use a condom’ or ‘Rome has put the condom on the index, we recommend you put it […]

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Reviving the wonder” “

“The Church lives by the Eucharist”. So opens the latest encyclical of John Paul II, ‘Ecclesia de Eucharistia’, published on Maundy Thursday (17 April). The document was issued in lieu of the letter that the Pope annually addresses to all the world’s priests. “This year, the twenty-fifth of my pontificate – explains the Holy Father […]

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Like a diamond” “

It’s many-faceted, the ‘reading’ given by the Churches of Europe to the encyclical “Ecclesia de Eucharistia”, published by John Paul on 17 April, Maundy Thursday. We have sounded out some views. Belgium – A seed for the future. “An elucidation but, at the same time, a seed for the future”. The Pope “places the ‘new […]

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In principle…” “

“The peculiar efficacy in promoting communion, that pertains to the Eucharist, is one of the reasons for the importance of the Sunday Mass”. So writes John Paul II in his latest encyclical, ‘Ecclesia de Eucharistia’, to be published on Maundy Thursday (17 April). The Holy Father, citing the apostolic letter on the sanctification of Sunday, […]

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