Pope’s message to the Episcopal Conferences of Europe
(October 01, 2011) Pope Benedict XVI sent a message to the Council of European Bishops’ conferences (CCEE-it’s Latin acronym) holding their Plenary Assembly at Tirana, capital of the Albanian Republic, on their 40th anniversary. Vatican Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone, addressed a letter on behalf of the Pope to Hungarian Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Péter Erdó. President of the CCEE. The Assembly, on the theme of the New Evangelization, that started on Friday will conclude on Sunday 2nd October. The Pope urged the Bishops to forge ahead boldly on the paths of Evangelization, focusing specially on the new generations. He encouraged them to consider their conference a precious set-up linking their pastoral and ecumenical activities on the European continent. Cardinal Erdó remarked with gratitude that Providence had liberated countries once under totalitarian regimes, Now with such newborn countries Europe could “ breathe with two lungs” as Blessed Pope John Paul II used to say. . The Cardinal highlighted the economic plight of the Continent, but remarked that more alarming was the ethical crisis that has seeped into families, into the educational structures and the Media.. Currently the EECC is made up of 33 Conferences. The request of Bishop Milan Šašik of the eparchy of Mukachevo of the Rutenians of the Bizantine Rite to join the EECC was accepted.
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