enlargement" "

In the name of solidarity” “

Four documents of the European bishops on enlargement and elections” “” “

di From Our Correspondent Gianni Borsa" "" "THE EUROPEAN BISHOPS WRITE TO JOHN PAUL II. COMECE has first of all sent a message to the Pope to thank him for his dedication to the cause of Europe. "We joined together in the pilgrimage to Santiago to celebrate together, in this Holy Year, the important occasion of the entry of ten new states into the European Union", write the bishops of 25 nations. "Together we retraced the road that has seen so many pilgrims through the centuries" come "to the tomb of

29 Aprile 2004

COMECE (Commission of the episcopates of the European Community) has prepared four documents with a view to the construction of an enlarged and united Europe present on the world scene and actively engaged in the pursuit of peace, solidarity and the support of the poorer nations and peoples. From Santiago de Compostela, where a week of pilgrimage and debates ended on Saturday, 24 April, the bishops “re-affirmed the need for an explicit reference to Christianity to be made in the preamble of the future EU Constitution”.