Vatican Radio - The leadership of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community – COMECE – were in Rome this week for meetings in connection with a major high-level Congress in Rome this fall, on the theme: Rethinking Europe.

The Pope will take part in a big meeting in Rome, promoted by Comece (Commission of EU Bishops Conferences) and by the Holy See to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. The event will be held from 27th to 29th October and will be about: “Re-thinking Europe”.

SIR - "Going back to a world closed in on itself, returning to particularism, is not possible. We are called to move forward, and we must do so together”, said Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising, President of the German Bishops’ Conference and of COMECE.

SIR - "Ritornare ad un mondo chiuso in se stesso, ritornare ai particolarismi, non è possibile. Siamo chiamati ad andare avanti e a farlo insieme".