” “The lack of "callings to priesthood and religious life" that "Europe is suffering from" requires "a time-consuming, patient maturation", in which "the two sacraments of mission priesthood and marriage must live in symbiosis". The vocational pastoral needs "religious, priestly, lay and baptismal callings to cooperate with each other. Joining forces to cooperate" becomes then one of the "main priorities". This sums up the conclusions of the yearly meeting of the European Vocations Service (Evs, Commission of the Council of European Bishops Conferences), which ended on July 1st at Bake Utarije (Croatia), about "The family, a place of vocation". "Europe suffers from widespread atheism commented the participants, about 50 delegates of the vocational pastoral from 17 delegations of as many countries , an allergy to faith and sometimes a sort of "Christ-phobia". In this respect, "the families are invited to educate their children and hand faith on to them", because, despite its difficulties, the family remains a "place of great hope" and the "natural breeding-ground for vocations". Evs is chaired by mgr. Wojciech Polak, auxiliary bishop of Gniezno (Poland) and vocations directors at Ccee.” “
