In this panel on the resources which Catholic Social Teaching can offer to policy-makers and to the public debate of citizens in the different member states of the European Union, I will first lay out how human dignity is the joint reference point.
We open the first Catholic Days for Europe with the celebration of the Eucharist, by listening to God's Word and with the gift of the Body and the Blood of Christ provitamundi: words which illuminate and a gift which restores our personal and social life.
Zwischen 500 und 600 Katholiken aus ganz Europa werden anlässlich dieses Ereignisses auf Initiative der COMECE vom 8. bis 11. Oktober 2009 in Danzig zusammenkommen.