Read the speech that Fr. Manuel Barrios Prieto, General Secretary of COMECE, addressed to the Plenary Assembly of the CCEE held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on 3-6 October 2019.

The Holy Father’s message is a key document for the Church in Europe. It is not just about migrants… This message stimulates discernment by the Church in Europe: it is also about materialism!

On 15 May 2019, H.E. Mgr. Mariano Crociata, First Vice President of COMECE, together with Fr. Olivier Poquillon, o.p., General Secretary of COMECE, participated in the debate "(Re)thinking Europe: the social doctrine of the Church in action", organised in Milan by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. They both intervened on the role of the Catholic Church in the EU and on COMECE's mission of dialogue with the EU.

On the occasion of the ACLI-organised conference on "A social and labour Europe", organised in Paris on 14-16 May 2019, H.E. Mgr. Mariano Crociata, First Vice President of COMECE, address the audience with a keynote entitled "Il futuro dell'Europa sociale", which can be downloaded and read here.