THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF EUROPE: COMECE CONGRESS; CARD. BOZANIC (CCEE), "AFTER THE TRAGEDY OF WAR, A NEW COURSE" (2)

” “According to card. Bozaniæ even "the defence, the wellbeing, the peace of man is Christ, and it is Him who still points at the true human values", so "today, called to think of the Europe of tomorrow, we realise that moving away from this truth would be tantamount to building on the sand"; actually, added the cardinal, quoting the words of the then card. Ratzinger, in the sermon of Mass "Pro eligendo Romano Pontifice" of 18th April 2005, "who could forget that the awareness of human dignity and of the corresponding rights was born in Europe, under the decisive influence of Christianity?" "Europe – specified the deputy president of Ccee – is asked to propose these values again to the future generations, as in the past it proposed them again to the world". The Holy Father, went on card. Bozaniæ, "alerts contemporary society by drawing to their attention the fact that peace, in today’s context, is also threatened by indifference for what the real nature of man is", and therefore clarity is needed because "a ‘weak’ view of the person which admits of any concept, no matter how strange, only seemingly promotes peace", which implies, instead, "the respect of man’s rights". ” “