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It is 60 years this week since the historic meeting of Dr Konrad Adenauer and General de Gaulle, at the inception of the EEC, which had been set up at the Treaty of Rome the previous year, and which later, under very different hands, was to develop into the EU.
Dr Adenauer, a Grand Cross of Magistral Grace of our beloved Order, a man of exemplary piety, was the last truly Catholic statesmen of Europe, and man for whom religious principle and the Truths of the Faith trumped all consideration of career or political expediency. He had received the Grand Cross from Grand Master Chigi in person.
For a while Dr Adenauer was seen as the Father of Europe. He retired from politics in 1963. How different Europe and the world today might have been with such men!
Pray for the repose of his soul, and for Europe, that we may yet be given leaders who will serve the moral and spiritual needs of the people in their care, and ensure their dignity and prosperity.
On this Feast of the Holy Cross let us pray that the leaders of the world will each be prepared to take up the Cross prepared for them by our Saviour, that, in the words of our Blessed Patron, we may decrease, that He may increase.
ADORAMUS TE CHRISTE ET BENEDICIMUS TIBI.
QUIA PER CRUCEM TUAM REDEMISTI MUNDUM.
OUR LADY QUEEN OF EUROPE, PRAY FOR US.
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