"Every person who claims this heritage must keep it alive, for today and for tomorrow. Since we are fully aware that we are have inherited a rich religious heritage, we must make it bear fruit, since it does not just lie in the past but also determines out view of the future and the relations among men. However we cannot claim this inheritance without taking on its paradoxes. For example, we are called not to love just those who come from our own people, but to offer our love to everyone". An appeal to the responsibility of the Christians in the "European history to be written" was sent by mgr. Hyppolite Simon, archbishop of Clermont Ferrand and member of the Commission of the EU Bishops Conferences, this morning at the workshop on the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which is in progress in Clermont Ferrand. Responsibility, the project and commitment to Europe, will be the main topics addressed and discussed until October 11th by experts from several European countries, assisted by over 250 young people. In the next days, speakers will include Michel Dumoulin (University of Louvain), Hans Jürgen Küsters (University of Bonn), Bino Olivi (ex spokesman of the European Commission University of Rome), Jean-Dominique Durand (University of Lyons), Michel Camdessus (French Social Weeks).
