“One of the first tasks of Christians” is “to listen, to bring up, to support this new search” for answers and for sense, before “the questions raised by the latest epoch-making tragedies” and the basic issues relating to “the ethic problems of life: the world’s new geopolitical scenario, the heavy pressure of migrants at the borders of our countries”. It was said yesterday by mgr. Aldo Giordano, secretary general of Ccee (Council of European Bishops Conferences) as he spoke on the last day of the course for theology students focussed on “Saint Benedict, monasticism and the Christian roots of Europe”, promoted from August 28th to 31st in Subiaco by the National Office for Social Problems and Labour of CEI (Italian Bishops Conference). As he commented the omission of the word Christianity in the Constitutional Treaty of the European Union, the secretary general of Ccee highlighted that “they tried to find agreement on a lowest common denominator instead of on a highest one. One can indistinctly admit that Europe does have religious roots, but that’s all. The debate did not adequately consider the seriousness of the issue of truth and sense”, but “can we build a Europe that is not a space of truth and sense?”. (to be continued)
