Posted on 06/22/2021 8:54:04 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Pope Francis on Saturday put Robert Schuman, who paved the way for the founding of the European Union, on the path to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
The pope approved a decree recognizing the “heroic virtues” of the 20th-century French statesman who died in 1963, the Vatican said in a statement.
“Behind the action of the public man, there was the interiority of the man who lived the sacraments, who, when he could, would take to an abbey, who would reflect on the sacred Word before finding the shape of his political words,” the Vatican said about Schuman.
The pope’s approval of the decree means Schuman now has the title “venerable.” The recognition is one of the earliest milestones of the process that could lead to canonization. […]
According to the Reuters news agency, the France-based L’Institut Saint Benoît has been promoting sainthood for Schuman for several decades. …
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Robert SchumanN would be a better candidate - and he died in a madhouse.
The church worshiping the state
He had a short life. What ultimately killed him was pneumonia.
His almost-namesake was just another career politician, who for the record voted to support Pétain during WWII.
Well, of course he did....
Pope Marx speaks.
What think ye?
Anything this pope scumbag does is bad. So this guy must have been a dick.
"Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's ,
but render unto God that which is God's."
Are we to ask for prayerful intersection from a Globalist ?
Me thinks that Francis's priorities are too secular and askew !!
Too bad only Jesus gets to decide who is a Saint and who is not.
This type of nonsense is exactly why I left the RCC long ago.
Just for the record, the Institut Saint Benoît has been around since 1988 and since then has been lobbying for the beatification of Schuman, seemingly its sole purpose.
In March 1940, because of his expertise on Germany, Schuman (who had been a member of the French Chamber of Deputies since 1919) was called to become a member of Paul Reynaud’s wartime government to be in charge of the refugees. He kept that position during the first Pétain government. On 10 July, after the defeat of the French army, he voted to give full power to Marshal Philippe Pétain, who supported the armistice with Germany, but refused to continue to be in the government.
On 14 September, however, he was arrested for acts of resistance and protest against Nazi methods. He was interrogated by the Gestapo but the intervention of a German lawyer stopped him from being sent to Dachau concentration camp.
After the war, an old rival of his, André Diethelm, the Free French war minister of Charles de Gaulle, tried to have Schuman classified as a war criminal.
General de Gaulle, however, overturned the verdict, since he knew Schuman and his qualities as a person and as a politician all too well. In 1946, Schuman was reelected.
IIRC, both Diethelm and Schuman had been at odds before: in 1919 and the following years, plenty of expropriated German property in the Moselle department (which had been German from 1871-1918) had been sold underhand at scandalously low prices, from which quite a few war profiteers were able to make huge, albeit illegal, profits.
Diethelm’s family, it is said, was involved in this profiteering. When Schuman was able to uncover these shenanigans, the scandal was there, and the profiteers had to pay regular prices or give the bought items back.
Needless to say, Diethelm held a grudge against Schuman from this time on, and in 1945, he tried to take his revenge.
Yes, very sadly. I blame his wife Clara for the composer’s saddening end.
A great pianist she was, but not a great person: at recitals, she would perform not her husband’s, but his rivals’ works. When he went insane, she di not do everything she could have done for him.
A wonderful pianist, but a mediocre human being...
Julius Caesar, Napoleon and Hitler all worked towards a unified Europe as well. Are they candidates for sainthood?
So did Kaiser Wilhelm II, who stated he wanted “a United States of Europe against America”. So in this modern epoch, there is only one purpose of a united Europe.
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