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The Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community sees Roberta Metsola as a person who can promote the Church's contribution to European policymaking
By La Croix International staff | Belgium
The EU bishops' president has expressed his sincere congratulations to Roberta Metsola on her election as President of the European Parliament and said he looked forward to working with her in promoting policies centered on the human person.
"On behalf of the Bishops of the European Union, I would like to express my sincere congratulations to Roberta Metsola on her election as President of the European Parliament," said Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, president of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMECE).
"We look forward to continuing this collaboration for the common good, bringing public institutions closer to European citizens, making young people protagonists of European politics and promoting policies centered on human person, family and community," he said in a statement.
Maltese lawmaker Roberta Metsola, 43, has been chosen to head the European Parliament after David Sassoli died suddenly last week.
Metsola, from the EU's smallest nation Malta, is the youngest president ever to run the chamber. She had served as Sassoli's top vice president.
"We already had the opportunity to work with her and we acknowledge her qualities: she is a brilliant person who will certainly be able to fulfil this important institutional role in an excellent manner," said Cardinal Hollerich.
These sentiments were reflected by Bishop Joseph Galea-Curmi, delegate of the Bishops' Conference of Malta to COMECE.
The bishop expressed confidence for a fruitful working relationship between EU lawmakers and the Church and that Metsola brings experience and deeply rooted European values to her new role.
Bishop Galea-Curmi told Vatican News that he knows Metsola personally.
"I think she represents very well the values that are at the core of Europe, that unite us as Europeans, such as human dignity, freedom of movement, the defense of democracy, equality which respects diversity, rule of law, respect for human rights, including those of minorities," he said.
Bishop Galea-Curmi said her nomination means that it will be easy to continue to develop and nurture the good relationship that exists between the European Parliament and COMECE.
"She already has a relationship with COMECE," he said, "because she was responsible for dialogue with institutions", adding that it will be easy to continue a dialogue that already exists with the European institutions and that enables the Church to give its valid contribution on different issues and challenges.
The Catholic Church, through COMECE, brings the voices of bishops who have strong relations with the realities they face in their own countries, across the EU, "and through our social teaching and our emphasis on certain values -- like the common good, solidarity, subsidiarity, justice, the option for the poor and those who are marginalized -- we can give an important contribution, to the different issues that Europe faces," Bishop Galea-Curmi said.
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