"About the Lisbon Treaty and more generally about the European reality, there is still some ignorance, but as Christians we cannot exempt ourselves from the duty of saying that Europe is an inalienable place in which we must live and testify our faith today and thus be on the side of all those people who are looking for the true, the fair, the beautiful". It was repeated by mgr. Piotr Jarecki, auxiliary bishop of Warsaw (Poland), one of the two deputy presidents of Comece, during the press conference held in Brussels today to mark the end of the 38th assembly of the Commission. "As Christian Churches, and in particular as Catholic Churches, we have gone along with the process of the EU since the start, and this sharing cannot be weakened or fail. Especially because at the heart of the cultural debate and the political choices there are, more than ever, those non-negotiable principles which Benedict XVI reminds us of". Mgr. Giuseppe Merisi, bishop of Lodi (Italy) and delegate for the Italian Bishops Conference to Comece, spoke of the subject. "The reflection we have started over these days he said is on the agenda of all the European Churches and deserves being further investigated. From this perspective, the proposal of a social week or social conference of the European Catholics, that Comece and Ccee (Council of European Bishops Conferences) have penned in as one of their future engagements, becomes prominent".
