European bishops' conference draws 'hope and encouragement' from papal address in Strasbourg
November 25, 2014
Speaking in his capacity of president of the Commission of Bishops' Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), Cardinal Reinhard Marx told reporters that the November 25 address by Pope Francis to the European Parliament was “a message of hope and encouragement.”
“The very fact that he visited the European Parliament before he visited individual member states was an indication of how much value the Pope attached to the European Union,” Cardinal Marx told reporters at a news conference following the papal address.
Recapping the Pope’s speech, the cardinal said that the fundamental theme was the need to put human persons at the center of the European project. He observed that the Pope wished for European leaders to see their people “not just as citizen nor merely as an economic subject… but as men and women, as persons endowed with transcendental dignity.”
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