VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Osservatore Romano interview with president of Italian Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco: “A Church loved by her people in a country in need of systematic re-evangelisation” - Sr Teresa Karottukunnel, FMA and her work to help drug addicts in India: Interview - Cardinal Bertone attends Pontifical Lateran University academic act to mark 70th anniversary of new premises

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In Italia there is a Church which is not interested in the life of political parties or how politics are run, it desires simply to love and serve the people speaking out clearly and firmly, aware that she is a Church loved by the people "over and beyond Sunday Mass attendance". Cardinal Bagnasco expressed this certainty in an interview published by today's issue of the Osservatore Romano. “ The pre-eminently popular relations between the Church and Italy may not make the headlines but they make a difference and things are not what they appear to be.”
- While working at a Salesian Rehabilitation Centre for drug addicts, Sr Teresa Karottukunnel felt the need to offer the same service to young people in difficulty in Guwahati, India. She opened two centres for women addicted to drugs and a temporary home for rehabilitated drug abusers. A testimony of generous Christian commitment.
- Today, 28 November 2007, 5pm, at the Aula Magna Benedetto XVI: Academic Act for 70th anniversary of the new premises of the Pontifical Lateran University and the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Diocesan Theology Centre for Lay People. In the programme: greeting by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, Grand Chancellor. Intervention by the University Rector, Bishop Rino Fisichella, Lectio Magistralis Cardinal Card. Tarcisio Bertone, secretary of state.(C.E.) (Agenzia Fides 28/11/2007; Righe 10 - Parole 150)