Posted on 03/24/2017 6:33:40 PM PDT by marshmallow
Addressing 27 European heads of state on March 24, Pope Francis said that the founders of the European Union rightly understood that “the heart of the European political project could only be man himself.
The Pope spoke to a distinguished group of European leaders in the Sala Regia, in an event marking the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, which gave birth to today’s European Union. In a formal address, the Holy Father said that it is important to “relive that event in order to appreciate its significance for the present.”
In 1957, the Pontiff recalled, European leaders were “full of hope and expectation, enthusiasm and apprehension.” The founders of the European community, he said, had a goal that went beyond economic alliance:
The founding fathers remind us that Europe is not a conglomeration of rules to obey, or a manual of protocols and procedures to follow. It is a way of life, a way of understanding man based on his transcendent and inalienable dignity, as something more than simply a sum of rights to defend or claims to advance.
Unlike his predecessors, Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, who had frequently warned against the lost of Europe’s shared Christian identity, Pope Francis did not focus on that theme. He devoted only one paragraph of his lengthy speech to the Christian heritage, quoting Alcide de Gasperi, one of the principal founders of the European community, who said that “at the origin of European civilization there is Christianity.”
In the remainder of the speech the Pontiff spoke more generally about the foundation of European society. He said that the “pillars” of the European community are “the centrality of man, effective solidarity, openness to the world, the pursuit of peace and development, openness to the future.”
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Seems to me this is none of his business.
We are the proletariat
It isn’t and the man is bereft of any factual historical knowledge.
Did he hide his crucifix when he lectured them?
As he did for the US Congress
Will el Papa Marx preside over the final internment of Lenin?
Karl Marx would be proud of you, Frankie.
Is the Pope...
...never mind.
“Lighten up Francis”.
He said that the “pillars” of the European community are “the centrality of man,
Man-centered. Not at all Christian.
Creep Francis cheers the Muslim invasion of Europe. He is an enemy of the West and an agent of evil.
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