” “In spite of demonstration actions, including extreme actions such as hunger strike by a few believers and the attempt to stop trucks by using human bodies as obstacles, there was no positive result until now. “By authorizing a huge building near the cathedral – explained the Archdiocese of Bucharest, – the Romanian Law 422/2001 for the protection of historical buildings is clearly violated; furthermore, owing to the irregular and defective way in which works are being carried out, another 24 Romanian laws are either partially or totally violated”. Moreover, the construction authorization does not specify "who is responsible for any damage caused to the cathedral", that is, "the only subject responsible for repair", according to the Romanian law, will be its owner. The Catholic community thinks that "the indifferent and irreverent manners” used by the authorities reveal “clear anti-Catholic intentions, as happened during the worst totalitarian regimes”. After the official note by the Vatican, among the others, the following subjects spoke: Cardinal Mossa I Daoud, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, the Vatican Secretary for the Relationships with States, Msgr. Giovanni Lajolo, the archbishops of Vienna and Padua, the Romanian Orthodox Church, and the Hebrew Community in Bucharest.” “
