” “”What have you done of your brother?”: six months before the presidential, local and municipal elections due in France in Spring 2007, the Permanent Council of the Bishops Conference chose this title for a message to Catholics, political decision-makers and public opinion. "This appeal made by God to man’s conscience has gone through the centuries state the bishops and we, as the Bishops of France, want it to resound loud and clear”. “The Gospel that inspires the social doctrine of the Church goes on the text is our point of reference and calls us to highlight what looks essential to us today”. According to the bishops, “building a more fraternal city is the citizens’ duty but it is also the republican ideal" because "freedom and equality without fraternity become a dead letter”. Everyone’s taking responsibility, as well as "the search for the common good", national unity and the role of France in Europe have been some of the points discussed by the bishops, who also insisted on the subjects of family, employment, immigration and globalisation. Finally one further call to fraternity, which “involves taking care of the weaker and respecting every human being”.” “
