Vatican City, Oct 27, 2017 / 10:55 am
The concern felt by both the Catholic Church and local civil leaders for the future of Europe provides an opportunity for collaboration in creating a better future, a high-level European politician said Friday.
"So if we both, political and Church, are concerned, then we surely have the capacity between us to make it better. This is what it's about," Mairead McGuinness, vice president of the European Parliament, said Oct. 27.
"We're looking at ways of trying to listen, engage, move the conversation along, from a place where we're both concerned about the future of Europe."
She spoke to journalists on the first day of a Vatican-sponsored conference on the future of Europe, taking place in Rome Oct. 27-29.