European bishops discuss priesthood, euthanasia, gay adoption
July 15, 2009
Bishops from 27 countries met in Ukraine from July 9 to 13 to discuss the Year of the Priest, the Pope’s new encyclical, and other issues, including euthanasia and adoption by homosexual couples.
The bishops also sounded a cautionary note about European unification: according to a press release, “The Church in Europe supports and accompanies with attention a process of European unification, bringing development and peace but also serious questions on presumed values which so far some representatives of the EU have tired to put forward in individual countries through European legislation, particularly in the field of education, the role of religion, life and the family. This may represent a risk for the very vision of the human person.”
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