The Pope may be one of the world's top lobbyists, but try as he might, he still hasn't managed to get the Heavenly Father a mention in the E.U. constitution. When Valéry Giscard d'Estaing unveiled his long-awaited preamble to the long-awaited draft, there were shout-outs to ancient Greek, Roman, and Enlightenment thinkers but not to God or Christianity.
A document that wants to reflect a pluralist Europe and offend no one, the draft acknowledges a "spiritual impulse always present in [Europe's] heritage." But that ecumenical, almost New Age-y note did not satisfy Christian Democrats who...
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