The following declaration is offered by Bishop Josef Homeyer, President of the Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) on the occasion of the election of His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI on 19 April 2005.
COMECE is disappointed that the Commission proposal for the 7th Research Framework Programme of the 6 April does not contain any clear ethical limits for jointly funded EU research projects.
The following statement is offered by the COMECE Executive Committee on behalf of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) on the death of His Holiness Pope John Paul II on 2nd April 2005 in Rome.