” “All through the development of the European Union, according to the President of the Italian Bishops Conference, "it seems necessary, on one hand, to apply with increasing consistency the principle of subsidiarity, and on the other hand to acknowledge the peculiar contribution made by the Churches and the religious communities to the development of the common European house". The Churches, "in sharing the common commitment to such essential values as justice, peace, freedom, solidarity, the protection of the environment, reassert that these values cannot be genuinely accomplished unless they are bonded to the transcending dimension of the person and the respect of rules that are inherent in the human nature". "The main interest and exclusive end of every action of the Catholic Church, as well as its natural sphere of dialogue and contribution recalled mgr. Bagnasco, quoting Pope Benedict XVI , is the promotion and protection of the dignity of the person and its ethical centrality, which materialises in principles that are non negotiable because they are the very expression and content of such dignity". (to be continued) ” “
