Lisbon 2023. Msgr. Aguiar (LOC): “The first for digital natives, provocative and missionary”

WYD Lisbon 2023 is less than four months away. SIR interviewed Monsignor Américo Aguiar, auxiliary bishop of Lisbon and president…

Portugal: Bishops’ Plenary Assembly in Fatima to discuss vocations to the priesthood, child protection and WYD

European Union: Slovenia at the helm of the Council of the European Union. Economic recovery, rule of law and security on its six-monthly agenda

Social Summit: Sassoli, “give a social dimension to reforms and investments to overcome the crisis”

Social Summit: Sassoli, “COVID highlighted pre-pandemic inequalities. EU project should prove to be good for all”

Social Summit: von der Leyen (EU Commission), “turning the principles of the Social Pillar into tangible positive change”

May 9: a different celebration for Europe, with the motto “I care”

The pandemic has severely hit the Old continent, imposing a change of pace on the EU. This is reflected in…

EU: Social Summit in Porto on 7 May, to translate 20 principles of EU Pillar of Social Rights into action

Portugal: Assembly of Bishops, undertaking pastoral challenges with “prophetic, missionary and synodal dynamism”. A focus on lay people

Portugal: Supreme Court, euthanasia law ruled unconstitutional. Bishops welcome the news, “assisted suicide contrary to human dignity”

Portugal: president Rebelo de Sousa sends euthanasia law to Constitutional Court. “Legal uncertainty”