Grégor Puppinck, director of the European Centre for Law and Justice, addressed the bishops’ legal advisors and “highlighted some situations of difficulty,” in the words of the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe. Puppinck, who is also a pro-life advocate, “made a heartfelt appeal to legal advisors to study religious freedom in greater depth and the consequences that any compression of this right can have on the lives of believers.”

“The Catholic Church,” he added, “must continue to be the place par excellence where freedom and reason are promoted and safeguarded.”