Madrid, Spain, Nov 13, 2003 / 22:00 pm
Bishop Agustín García-Gasco of Valencia, Spain, has published a pastoral letter in which he calls on Christians to work for the recuperation of traditional European values in contrast with people are interested only in politics and the economy.
“Politics and the economy are not everything,” he wrote, encouraging the faithful to “be conscientious that the building of Europe is not something that is far away from us, but rather something that affects us and will be even more incumbent upon us soon.”
Currently Europe “is in a construction phase, or better yet, reconstruction,” the Archbishop said, adding “the European Union is meant to be a project of hope, a mixture of creativity and responsibility in the eyes of history, perhaps unprecedented in times of peace.”
Archbishop García-Gasco also said that Europe “is a cultural and historical concept that goes beyond geographical borders and is a reality born of unifying force of Christianity, which is capable of transmitting common values to distinct and plural peoples.”