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 1   1,7       |             clouding the horizon of the European continent, which “despite
 2   1,9       |            hedonism – in daily life”.16 European culture gives the impression
 3   1,9       |                 recent ones, to present European culture with no reference
 4   1,12      |             little, a culture, indeed a European consciousness, is being
 5   1,18      |               and cultural unity of the European peoples and which both today
 6   1,19      |                which are at the core of European civilization, have their
 7   2,24      |               to be the religion of the European peoples. Even in modern
 8   2,25      |            those values which have made European culture universal.~With
 9   2,30      |        evangelization and the growth of European unity, all the Churches
10   2,40      |            ecclesial Communities of the European continent, since “changed
11   2,41      |               be builders of tomorrow's European society, establishing it
12   2,42      |                 aspects of contemporary European society which represent
13   3,45      |           authentic evangelizers of the European continent. ~A first proclamation
14   3,47      |             values which amply inspired European culture have been separated
15   3,53      |           beginning with the Council of European Episcopal Conferences. The
16   3,53(96)  |                to the Presidents of the European Episcopal Conferences (16
17   3,57      |                 the notable gap between European culture, with its profound
18   3,57      |            Church, even as she asks the European institutions to ensure the
19   3,58      |                 also reach contemporary European culture. The evangelization
20   3,58      |           technological achievements in European culture and society, the
21   3,64      |               his Gospel limited to the European context alone would betray
22   4,67      | dechristianization of vast areas of the European Continent, there are signs
23   5,91      |               individual States and the European Union itself.149 ~
24   5,95      |         declining population in various European countries cannot fail to
25   5,95      |               the legal systems of many European countries contain legislation
26   5,96      |           certainty that “the future of European civilization greatly depends
27   5,96      |            Synod Fathers: “The Synod of European Bishops encourages Christian
28   5,96      |               It asks the States of the European Union to enact far-sighted
29   5,98      |               freedom, so as to protect European culture and society both
30   5,100     |            phenomenon is also prompting European society and its institutions
31   5,102     |                 fabric of the different European nations. This demands not
32   5,103     |               States and the leaders of European institutions to grant refugee
33   5,104     |               all the Christians of the European continent,167 represents
34   6,107     |             earth, and in particular to European society, which for so many
35   6,108     |                 108. The history of the European continent has been distinctively
36   6,108     |              way, to the foundations of European culture. Christianity in
37   6,108     |       intimately linked to the whole of European culture”.169~Today's Europe
38   6,110     |                                110. The European Union continues to expand.
39   6,111     |                which it has not lacked, European history itself demands this: “
40   6,111(172)|             President of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences (16
41   6,112     |         encouraged as the foundation of European solidarity, while on the
42   6         |                Up of Europe~The role of European Institutions~
43   6,113     |                operating principally on European territory, they have left
44   6,113     |                 signatories to the 1950 European Convention for the safeguarding
45   6,113     |                Connected to them is the European Court of Human Rights. These
46   6,113     |                solidarity. Finally, the European Union, with its Parliament,
47   6,113     |          specific identity of each, the European Institutions promote the
48   6,113(178)|                of the Presidency of the European Parliament (5 April 1979):
49   6,114     |            Fathers,179 I ask these same European institutions and the individual
50   6,114     |                before the foundation of European nations, they cannot be
51   6,114     |                the various national and European institutions should act
52   6,114     |             those drawing up the future European constitutional treaty, so
53   6,114     |         structured dialogue between the European Union and those confessions;
54   6,115     |                                115. The European institutions have as their
55   6,115     |         foundations on which our common European home rests; ... respond,
56   6,116(183)|             President of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences (16
57   6,117     |             unification by offering the European institutions, in continuity
58   6,117     |                is needed in the various European agencies and institutions,
59   6,117     |         proposals – to the shaping of a European social order which is increasingly
60   6,118     |                 given to the Council of European Episcopal Conferences, which
61   6,118     |               of the Episcopates of the European Community, which, in following
62   6,118     |    consolidation and enlargement of the European Union, favours the sharing
63   6,118     |             pastoral initiatives of the European Churches involved. ~
64   6,120(191)|                              Address to European Authorities and to the Presidents