COMECE published a Reflection Paper entitled “Mental Health in Europe – A Call for Care”, offering an ethical and human-centred contribution to the growing European public and political debate on mental health.
The Presidency of COMECE has examined the recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the case Wojewoda Mazowiecki (C-713/23) and recalls the Church’s “anthropological view, based on natural law, of marriage as a union between a man and a woman”.
Willem Jacobus cardinal Eijk explains why abortion cannot be a human right.
Initiating Processes for a Pastoral Care of Human Life. The new Pastoral Framework of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life.
On 8 April 2024, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith published the document Dignitas Infinita on contemporary threats to human dignity.
Ahead of the vote by the European Parliament on the Resolution for the ‘Inclusion of the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights’ (2024/2655 RSP), scheduled for Thursday, 11 April 2024, the Presidency of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) has issued the following statement.
On 21 March 2024, the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations held a side event together with the Center for Family and Human Rights entitled “Celebrating Ability: Investing in and Accompanying Children and Adults with Down Syndrome and their Families,” at UN Headquarters in New York during the Commission on the Status of Women.
In view of the elections for the European Parliament 2024 ,COMECE issues a statement inviting all citizens, especially Catholics, to prepare for the elections and vote responsibly “promoting Christian values and the European project”.
The Pontifical Academy for Life supports the position of the French bishops: abortion cannot be a right.
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has confirmed, that transgender people or people born through surrogacy can be baptised, provided no scandal or confusion is caused as a result.