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Giada Aquilino - Vatican City After the launch of the Recovery Fund to face the coronavirus emergency in Europe, the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union (Comece) urges the Old Continent to show compactness and solidarity. With the Commission's document on social affairs, COMECE focuses on the issue of social justice:  "an ambitious recovery plan would be a visible sign that the EU and its Member States are once again on the path of solidarity »  . brotherly unity The text takes up the prayer of Pope Francis during the mass at the Maison Sainte-Marthe last April 22, so that  “Europe succeeds in having a fraternal unity of which its founding fathers dreamed”  .  Mgr Antoine Hérouard, president of the Social Affairs Commission of Comece and auxiliary bishop of Lille, discusses the priorities of this European reconstruction. “Our call is also to rediscover this spirit of the founding fathers, because we have seen that Europe in this crisis d...

This Friday, February 11, Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Antoine Hérouard of Dijon.  Until now auxiliary bishop of Lille, he succeeds Bishop Roland Minnerath who presented his resignation to the Holy Father for reasons of age. The Burgundian Metropolitan Archdiocese welcomes a new archbishop.  Bishop Antoine Hérouard was born on August 10, 1956 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Nanterre.  He was ordained a priest on June 29, 1985 for the Archdiocese of Paris.   Holder of a canonical license in moral theology obtained at the Pontifical Gregorian University, he returned to the Eternal City from 2014 to 2017, as rector of the French seminary.  On February 22, 2017, he was appointed by Pope Francis Auxiliary Bishop of Lille and titular Bishop of Maillezais.  On May 31, 2019, he also became the pontifical  delegate ad nutum Sanctæ Sedis  for the sanctuary of Lourdes. Within the Conference of Bishops of France, of which he was secretary general from 2007 to...

Interview by Manuella Affejee - Vatican City These agreements, which included both a treaty and a concordat, ended almost 60 years of a bitter crisis between Italy and the Holy See.  To understand its origins and springs, we must go back to 1870, the year in which King Victor Emmanuel II completed the political unity of the peninsula by annexing the papal states and the city of Rome, which thus became the capital. of the Kingdom of Italy.  Although his honors as head of state are still recognized and his control over the Vatican and Castel Gandolfo is assured, Pope Pius IX refuses to recognize the Italian state;  he ordered Catholics not to take part in the country's civil life and declared himself a "prisoner"  of  the Apostolic Palace. Unblocking in the 1920s For 50 years, timid attempts at dialogue followed one another, but without success and the "  Roman question  " got bogged down with misunderstandings.  It was not until 1926 that a long an...