✣ Highlights from the week online
The end of Catholics’ ‘grand narrative’? The Economist’s Erasmus blog raised a topical question: “In the Europe of 2017, can there be such a thing as a Catholic political leader?”
After all, the blog pointed out, “Europe’s transnational institutions”, including what became the EU, “were deeply Catholic in inspiration. Devout statesmen such as Robert Schuman of France, Italy’s Alcide De Gasperi and Konrad Adenauer of Germany laid the groundwork for a new continental order … Politicians who had resisted fascism, in the name of their Catholic faith, were seen as well-placed to oppose the new menace of atheist communism, and the movement known as Christian Democracy took shape.”
