Europe's Bishops Analyze "No" on Constitution (Zenit)

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France and Holland Halt Ratification Momentum

BRUSSELS, Belgium, JUNE 3, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The French and Dutch rejection of the proposed European Union constitution means that governments must work on creating more transparency and participation in their systems, said the continent’s bishops.

Monsignor Noel Treanor, secretary-general of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community, called for “discernment on the part of both politicians and citizens,” in a statement released today.

Although the “no” vote is “multifarious,” and not indicative of an “outright rejection of the European project,” it does express “genuine apprehension concerning social, economic and security issues in the member states, and questions the adequacy of EU policy in these regards,” said the statement.

“It sounds a warning on limitless enlargement of the EU,” and the fears of Europe’s citizens “require courageous and coherent responses on the part of our political leaders both at the national and European levels,” he said.

“It underlines the need to develop transparency, legitimacy and participation in the system of governance,” continued the statement. "New ways of communicating the purpose of the European project itself and the process of European policy-making will have to be devised.

"To be credible and owned by the European citizen, European policymaking has to be clearly rooted in a value system that respects and promotes . . .

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France and Holland Halt Ratification Momentum

BRUSSELS, Belgium, JUNE 3, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The French and Dutch rejection of the proposed European Union constitution means that governments must work on creating more transparency and participation in their systems, said the continent’s bishops.

Monsignor Noel Treanor, secretary-general of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community, called for “discernment on the part of both politicians and citizens,” in a statement released today.

Although the “no” vote is “multifarious,” and not indicative of an “outright rejection of the European project,” it does express “genuine apprehension concerning social, economic and security issues in the member states, and questions the adequacy of EU policy in these regards,” said the statement.

Which part of NOdon’t they understand? If no means no when a girl’s being propositioned, why does it not means no when a country is being propositioned ?​

The French said NO, and the Dutch also said
NO - the constitution is dead, mort, kaput, finished, a dead parrot, expired, defunct, over, non-extant, not alive, departed, on the other side, gone: and it is not the business of the bishops to lend aid to politicians with delusions of grandeur. ##

“It sounds a warning on limitless enlargement of the EU,” and the fears of Europe’s citizens “require courageous and coherent responses on the part of our political leaders both at the national and European levels,” he said.

“It underlines the need to develop transparency, legitimacy and participation in the system of governance,” continued the statement. "New ways of communicating the purpose of the European project itself and the process of European policy-making will have to be devised.

"To be credible and owned by the European citizen, European policymaking has to be clearly rooted in a value system that respects and promotes . . .

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In case that doesn’t work - though why shouldn’t it ? - there is this too: EUROPE’S BISHOPS ANALYZE “NO” ON CONSTITUTION

The EU is not credible - period. What it amounts to, is a bunch of bureaucrats who are dead set on compelling the rest of us to put up with their shenanigans without letting us get rid of them by voting them out of office. Quite apart from the endemic corruption.​

And instead of using their authority to tell these people to take a hike, the Catholic bishops seem simply to rubberstamp their nonsense - it doesn’t matter that different countries have different needs: they are treated much the same as though they were replicas of one another.

It’s about time the bishops stopped meddling in politics, and meddled in something they are supposed to understand - namely, being bishops. The church has no need for incompetent politicos in mitres; it needs shepherds, and men of God. All they do is burble the same verbose and meaningless nonsense as the politicians. :banghead:

St.Paul did not talk about “transparency”, but preached the Cross.

No wonder people get fed up to the back teeth with the clergy ##