The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams told members of the Belgian University of Leuven that Christian universities have a responsibility to remind Europe of its Christian roots. He was speaking yesterday at a ceremony honouring contributours to Europe. He was awarded an honorary degree for his contribution as a public theologian. Dr Williams spoke of a “long record of European triumphalism” the cultural echoes of which are still very clear “not least in the bland assumption often made the European secularism is the destined future of the rest of the world”. He said Europeans needed to be reminded Christianity is not a product of our civilisation but that our civilisation is the product of Christianity He said: