Father Charles, as no doubt you do, I resist rather strenuously reading
Scripture as prophesy, but after the  introduction [deleted]  by Professor
Arthur Noble--the Paisleyite you posted on 5 May--his article fits in well
with what you posted today--without comment--from the Vatican's website
(Zenit.org)! (I'll add that Andrea Monda causes me to chuckle too!)   Of
course, Professor Noble's "Inferno" would be the Vatican's  "Paradise."  I
am reminded of the British MP in frustration complaining about the EEC:  "We
might as well have not opposed Herr Hitler!" I, for one, do not pray for a
return to any "reunified" version of the Middle Ages--culturally or
economically--as Monda or the Vatican may envison.  Having tasted spiritual
freedom, as St. Paul "really" says, I avoid  bondage of whatever
stripe--Fundamentalist or Papal--as I would the plague.  I hasten to add,
however, that biblical Fundamentalists absolutely have helped shatter
acceptance of the Roman Magesterium and this counter-balance of extremes by
definition opens up free inquiry.  There is a valid role for iconoclasts.
On an oak beam in the library of The University of Texas at Austin, I read
for the first time--as a freshman at age 16-- these famous words, which have
meant more and more to me as the years have gone by:  "Hier steh' ich, ich
kann nicht anders Gott helf mir!  (Here I stand, I can do no other.  God
help me!)   On another beam nearby were equally influential words equally
influential for me: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free!"  X  Regards


>Brothers+

This weeks schedule wont allow me much time on the internet, so I may not
find another opportunity to post a Friday Funny.

I came across this from Ian Paisleys website.  It was good for a chuckle.
Hows this for mangling Bible Prophecy, politics, economics and ecumenism in
one swell foop?  And after this, there is still more parts to come?  Have
mercy!

Charles+<

>Pope John XXIII underlined the religio-political nature of his vision for a
new Europe when he called it "the greatest [Roman] Catholic superstate the
world has ever known". More recently, the Papal Nuncio in Brussels described
the EU as "a [Roman] Catholic confederation of States". United within the
ancient boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire by the common spiritual bond of
religion, in a burgeoning and booming industrial economy, situated
geographically in the world's most productive industrial complex, its
undisclosed aim is march onto the scene of world history as John XXIII's
envisaged manifestation of "the greatest single human force ever seen by
man".

Economic flag of convenience

Developments which have taken place from the Treaty of Rome (1973) through
the Single European Act (1986) to the Maastricht Treaty (1992) have already
made it plain that the goal of the architects of European Union was more
than the purely economic one pretended at the beginning of the process. The
'Eurocrats' quickly went beyond mere economics. Their carefully concealed
agenda was a politically united federal European superstate, but it was
released only in small doses in order to deceive, condition and trap its
opponents and make sure little could be done to stop it before it was too
late.

By 1999 there is to be one single currency managed by one Central Bank
empowered to implement EU monetary policy. If the United Kingdom abandons
the Pound Sterling and signs up to monetary union, this would be an
irreversible step towards the complete destruction of our national
sovereignty. Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont recently
warned that there is "no example in history of a single paper currency not
linked to a single government" [The Daily Telegraph, Friday, December 20,
1996, p. 22.]; and Dr Hans Tietmeyer, President of the German Bundesbank,
said of the consequences of monetary union: "A European currency will lead
to member nations transferring their sovereignty over financial and wage
policy as well as in monetary affairs. It is an illusion to think that
states can hold on to their autonomy over taxation policies." [Ibid.] Is it
any wonder that even Peter Shore, the Labour Euro-sceptic, warned that it
would be "masochism and madness" for Britain to e
nter the single currency? [Ibid., p. 4]

Religious unity

Developments in Europe are, however, not planned to end with merely economic
and political union. The envisaged European superstate plans to go even
further. Although  as is characteristic of the planners' tactics  no
formal mention of the next step has yet been made or foreshadowed in any
treaty, it is clear that the stage has been set, and is already well
constructed, for the greatest politico-religious revolution ever witnessed
in the history of mankind. Tragically, widespread indifference on the part
of our national leaders, and especially of the leaders of the established
Churches, indicates that they are either totally ignorant of these
developments or else willing accomplices in this evil design. The latter
explanation quite clearly applies to Church leaders in particular  and it
is here that the hidden significance of the Ecumenical Movement emerges in
its relationship to the ideal of European unity.

The Roman Catholic Church has bent every effort to let the public know about
its efforts to seek a peaceful solution of the world's ills. Recent Popes
have published numerous encyclical letters and made many speeches to this
end. They have traversed the globe in the guise of the grandiose unifier,
presenting their Church to the world as a great peacemaking body.

This is nothing new; for Rome, being true to her motto semper eadem, never
changes. It was the Roman Church that during the Middle Ages established the
"Pope's Peace" in which efforts were made to limit the number of days on
which wars could be fought and to segregate civilians from the wanton
ravages of warfare. "If the people were turbulent," Pope Leo XIII declared,
"the Church was at once the mediator for peace." Whenever emperors, kings
and princes "erred", the Church interposed its "authority".

Peace and authority

Pope Pius XII said in his Christmas message of 1951: "Peace [...] cannot be
assured unless God reigns [...] in the duly organised society of nations";
peace, he declared, depended on "an order guaranteed by the Church according
to her office and in her own field of action". He was of course reiterating
Rome's traditional claim of the right to exercise her mandate to lead the
world by the belief that Christ is declared to have "established on earth a
society which is called the Church". Another Pope, Leo XIII, expressed the
same idea in paragraph 8 of The Christian Constitution of States, when he
claimed to be exercising (or, more accurately, arrogantly usurping) "the
exalted and divine office which He [Christ] had received from His Father".

In other words, Romanist doctrine invests the Church with power in the place
of Christ over human affairs to regulate and control the coming New Order 
ruling, not as Christ's instrument carrying out Christ's government, but by
having actually taken over Christ's government. To deny this claimed
authority, said Leo XIII, is to believe "just as if there were no God", and,
furthermore, "it is a public crime to act as if there were no God".

Take careful note of these statements, for they bear the hallmark of implied
infallibility and the consequently claimed right to suppress dissent. The
Vatican plans to give its ecclesiastical guarantee to a new Europe which is
far removed from the democratic association of States of Churchill's
post-War vision. The emerging Europe is the undemocratic, Roman Catholic
superstate envisioned by De Gaulle and the Church  a Europe in which it is
to be made "a public crime" to resist the power wielded by the Church in the
name of God. Let it be remembered that in the Middle Ages such resistance
was a crime punishable by death unless abjured, as the case of the scientist
Galileo, for instance, famously demonstrates.

For the past three quarters of a century the Popes have laid careful plans
for this organisation which is aimed at reclaiming all those regions of
Europe which were wrested from Rome through the Great Schism of the eleventh
century, the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth, and, more recently,
the communisation of Eastern Europe. Before his death in 1903, Pope Leo XIII
had already encouraged political rulers of whatever allegiance to re-ally
themselves with the Roman Church: "To princes and other rulers of the
State," he said, "we have offered [i.e. historically] the protection of [the
Roman Catholic] religion. Our present object is to make rulers understand
that this protection, which is stronger than any, is again offered to them
[...]." It is that same principle that the Vatican is offering to
present-day governments if they will submit to the Vatican's jackboot and
return to the Romanist fold.

Basic policy revealed

This is not a new policy. The pontiffs virtually ruled the Western World for
over 1200 years in the Middle Ages, and in the intervening centuries they
successfully, and unsuccessfully, mediated between nations when ruling the
Holy Roman Empire. For over a century, from the days of Garibaldi in Italy
and Bismarck in Germany, the Popes have striven to unite European civil
governments. Although the Vatican was unable to secure German-Italian unity
despite being favourable to the Central Powers in World War I, in the 1930's
it signed concordats with Mussolini and Hitler, agreements which acquired
for Rome much of the freedom that she sought.

Just as the Roman Church once imposed her order upon nations and peoples,
she is again is seeking to re-establish her authority through the creation
of a so-called "Christian order which alone is able to guarantee peace". So
said the late Pope Pius XII in his 1951 Christmas broadcast. "To this goal,"
he continued, "the resources of the Church are now directed." In February of
1952 he arrogantly exhorted the faithful of Rome: "The whole world must be
rebuilt from its foundation." Note that the resources of the entire Church
are being directed toward this basic goal and that its cornerstone has
remained the familiar goal of "peace".

This is the gigantic task about which the world has suspected little, while
under cover the Vatican's diplomats have been laying the foundations of a
program planned to remake the world from its foundations. The plan had to be
devised and carried out secretly in the hope that it would not be discovered
until it would be too late to stop it.

That is why few people have taken serious cognisance of the Vatican's peace
efforts, especially following World War II, and even fewer have realised the
true significance and goal of the ecclesiastical "peace" crusade. This
gigantic movement has cunningly and deceptively inculcated in its soporific
dupes the idea that its autocratic leaders are invested with "divine"
prerogatives which must be followed as from God. The non-RC public is simply
not aware that the basic policy of Rome is to re-establish her order the
world by whatever foul means lies at her disposal.

Clandestine policy-making

It has taken years of undercover plotting to advance the goal of unifying
Europe under the Romish doctrine. Preparations for the religious unity of
the new Europe were made by the Vatican even before the end of the War.
Because they were not recognised before much of the damage has been done,
they could result in the absorption of millions of nominal Protestants into
the Roman Catholic fold before they even realise what is happening. Many
nominally Protestant Churches have already defected from their Reformation
faith.

Inter-Church dialogue  especially the activities of the World Council of
Churches and the Ecumenical Movement  has been the major method of deceit
employed by Rome to shepherd her enemies into her fold. These schemes need
to be studied and exposed as a matter of urgency in the context of their
implications for Bible Christians realised.

Let us roll back the curtain of history on the more recent aspects of
Romanism's subtle scheme. The Treaty of Rome (1973), which established the
European Common Market, has already been mentioned. The public, in
accordance with the Vatican's policy of releasing facts in small doses, was
kept in the dark about the ultimate goal of this Treaty, which has
subsequently been amended several times. When one has access to the great
mass of the papal encyclicals and pronouncements of those years, startling
facts begin to emerge. Above all, the concealed significance of the Treaty
lay in the fact that it automatically tied European economic development to
the city of Rome, gave Europe a sense of religious unity, and provided the
Roman Catholic Church with a sense of protection against Communism.

Rome's major stumblingblocks

The Vatican has always considered the whole Continent of Europe, both West
and East, as its territory. During his visit to the European Parliament in
1988 Pope John Paul II symptomatically called Eastern Europe "that other
lung of our common European homeland" and spoke of his wish that Europe
might "one day expand to the dimensions bestowed on it by geography and
above all by history". It is significant that he cunningly avoided the word
"religion".

The major forces which have hitherto hampered or thwarted the full
implementation of those expansionist plans of the Vatican have been
collectivism (socialism, communism) and Western democracy. The former of
these is fundamentally opposed to religion altogether, which Karl Marx
described as "the opiate of the people"; the latter is anti-Rome in the
different sense of being built predominantly on the principles of the
Protestant Reformation. In simple terms, therefore, the greatest
stumblingblocks to Rome's false religion are communism and Protestantism 
no religion and true religion.

For quite apparent reasons Rome cannot rule, firstly, over Communist
nations. Therefore it must destroy them. Vatican aggression against the
Socialist countries of the former East Block is already well advanced: East
Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and others, even the Soviet Union itself,
have fallen one by one. Yugoslavia  where the particular historical thorn
in the Vatican's flesh has been the Orthodox Serbs  has been successfully
dismembered following the cunningly contrived illegal secession of the Roman
Catholic Provinces of Slovenia and Croatia, the latter of which during World
War II became a Fascist-Romanist mini-State, spawning the Ustashi who
brutally murdered 240,000 Orthodox Serbs and forcibly converted 1,200,000 to
the fold of Romanism. Support for anti-Serb terrorism in Kossovo is the
current scene in the drama.

Secondly, it is the systems of government of the democratic nations of the
West which are irreconcilable with the authoritarianism of Rome. It has been
a consistent teaching of the Vatican that the free consent of the people is
not enough to confer authority on civil government; but although the Roman
Church recognises that the ultimate source of authority is from God, it
falsely claims to be the instrument through which God exercises His
authority. Of Western Democracy, Pius XII said in his 1951 Christmas
broadcast: "Its strength is not based upon true freedom. This is a new
danger which threatens the peace, and which, in the light of Christian
social order, We must deprecate. It is because of this that not a few highly
placed persons in what is called the free world are hostile to the Church."

Note here the characteristic and familiar Vatican terminology: both
opponents of Rome  socialism and Western democracy  are rightly or wrongly
charged with "threatening the peace" and being a "danger" to the RC Church.

Now since neither the structure of the Communist nations nor that of the
Western nations can be used as an instrument to establish the supremacy of
the Vatican over the world resulting in the imposition of the "Pope's
Peace", they must be "deprecated"  i.e. disapproved of or disfavoured,
terminology which is in reality a Vatican euphemism for "destroyed".

How, then, and through what instrument is the Church working towards this
destruction? The answer is: through the New Europe, in which the convergence
of Romanism and politics is manifestly increasing day by day and treaty by
treaty. The EU is advancing by stealth towards John XXIII's goal of a Roman
Catholic superstate. Having already achieved the almost complete destruction
of communism, it must now continue to undermine the bastions of Western
democracy to achieve its aim. The ultimate implication of this goal is the
destruction of Protestantism.

The assault on the Socialist Countries

Historically, the concept of the nation-state has been anathema to the
Vatican, whose tactics have been to rob sovereign nations of their
nationhood and reduce to mere states or provinces of a single European
nation-state controlled by her, even subdividing them internally where it
suited her purposes.

Her present goal is unchanged  to recreate a re-mediaevalised Europe of
small, ineffectual states which she can easily dominate. Already, the map of
Europe is becoming strikingly reminiscent of the period before World War I.
The dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy after the War had enabled the
creation of independent sovereign nation-states on its former territory,
such as Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Hungary. As Czechoslovakia recently
split into its two constituent states, as Yugoslavia violently disintegrates
into a jigsaw puzzle of its provinces and Hungary may still threaten to fall
apart into ethnic regions, the familiar and unmistakable tactics of Rome
have become increasingly discernible.

History is repeating itself in a particularly obvious way in Yugoslavia and
Czechoslovakia. In 1917 the Papal Nuncio in Munich, Pacelli, secretly
negotiated with the Germans to accomplish the "Pope's Peace without Victory"
in order to save both Germany and predominantly Papist Austria-Hungary from
defeat and to strangle at birth two new nation-states  Yugoslavia, in which
Roman Catholics would become a minority dominated by Orthodox Serbs, and
Czechoslovakia, where they would be dominated by the Protestant Hussites and
Liberals.

After the plan failed, Nazi-supporter Pope Pius XII resumed the plot to
achieve his lifelong dream of destroying the Serbian Orthodox Church as a
rival religion by overtly aiming at Yugoslav disintegration  the one
prerequisite for attaining his goal. His plan was to detach Roman Catholic
Croatia from the rule of Orthodox Serbia and make it an independent
religious state, and eventually to set up a Roman Catholic Kingdom in the
Balkans.

Ominously, the planned destruction of Yugoslavia has now actually been
achieved. The Russian opposition leader Vladimir Zerenovski exposed the
Rome's tactics by describing Croatia's secession from the
legally-constituted State of Yugoslavia as "a Vatican plot". On the other
hand, the Romanist propaganda machine that has infiltrated the European
media falsely and consistently portrays Serbia, our former ally, as the
aggressor. Croatian atrocities are conveniently ignored, as are those of
Rome's Ustashi priests of the Nazi period.

The Vatican's dream of detaching Roman Catholic Slovakia and thus
re-dividing Czechoslovakia has now also materialised.

Similar tactics are being employed in the case of Northern Ireland. Rome's
clandestine aim is to detach the British Province from the United Kingdom
and turn its Protestant majority into a minority, at the same time
destroying the United Kingdom as a nation-state and ethnic-cleansing the
Protestants from the Island of Ireland.

Poland too has been thoroughly re-Romanised through the collusion of the
Vatican with the Solidarnosc Movement, whose leader, Lec Walesa, an ardent
Roman Catholic, subsequently became President. The significance of the
election of a Polish Pope is almost too obvious to mention. Recent Polish
history demonstrates that even countries where Roman Catholics are in the
majority are jackbooted by Rome: the Vatican actively worked for centuries
against Poland's independence from the Tsars, a fact which inspired the
great national Polish poet Julius Slowacki's famous warning: "Poland, thy
doom cometh from Rome!"

The former Soviet Union has disintegrated into small states, some of which,
including Ukraine, have large Roman Catholic populations; and the Vatican is
now aiming at other targets  the Protestant Scandinavian countries in
particular. Democratic Switzerland, the land of Zwingli and Calvin, has been
left till the last. I has already been literally surrounded by regions where
the Vatican holds sway.

Are our leaders blind to what is going on in Europe, or are they naively
stupid, or knowing collaborators?

In his book Power Beyond the Market  Europe 1992  the title itself is
significant  Otto von Habsburg lets the cat, or rather the Vatican beast,
out of the bag. He arrogantly claims: "One of these days the Middle and East
Europeans are going to belong to us. The call for self-determination from
Lithuania [in the Soviet Union] to Croatia [in Yugoslavia] and beyond is
heard today so that even the adversaries of a greater Europe can no longer
ignore it."

Significantly, these two regions, with Poland and Hungary, are strongly
Roman Catholic. The deception, however, lies in the phrase
"self-determination", a principle totally hostile to Romanism, as evidenced
by its attempt to remove the same inalienable right from the British people
of Northern Ireland. Croatia, Lithuania, Poland and Hungary are merely
passing from the dictatorship of communism to the dictatorship of Romanism.

The undermining of Britain and the USA

The specific institutions which prevent the Vatican from securing domination
and carrying out its "peace" plan in the free nations are two: the Church of
England, which dominates the Constitution of the United Kingdom and is
nominally Protestant  the Monarch being Defender of the Faith  and the
United States Constitution, which similarly guarantees freedom of religion
but by the opposite method of preventing a union of Church and State.

It is a measure of Britain's blindness and folly that in 1988, when the
300th Anniversary of the "Glorious Revolution" was being commemorated, the
Anglican Church had already had over twenty years of discussions with the
Roman Catholic Church. When William of Orange landed at Brixham 5th
November, 1688, a bloodless Revolution removed the last of the Stuart Kings
and was the means of establishing the Protestant Throne and Constitution of
this country through the Bill of Rights (1689) and the Act of Settlement
(1701).

If Britain were to become absorbed into a European Superstate, she would
undo with a stroke of the pen what our forefathers won through the
Reformation and enshrined in British constitutional law  the principle of
Protestant ascendancy over Papal supremacy. For the modern European
movement, disguised in economic garb, is in reality a new
Counter-Reformation. When the Battle of the Reformation had closed at the
Revolution of 1688 and Protestantism held the field, our forefathers wisely
built ramparts around the rights and liberties that they had won. One such
rampart was the Act of Settlement, which ensured that this country would
have a Protestant Throne, a Protestant Legislature and a Protestant
Electorate. The battle to liberate Britain from the ecclesiastical tyranny
of Rome continued into 1690 and was not finally won until the Battle of the
Boyne on 1st July, 1690. In Continental Europe it was not finally vanquished
until the establishment of the Peace of Ryswick on 15th S
eptember, 1697.

If the three basic principles of the Revolution Settlement  a free
Parliament, a free Press and a free Pulpit  should ever be dismantled, the
constitutional implications for Britain would be disastrous. She would undo
two thousand years of struggling to be free, and revert to a state of
serfdom to the Church of Rome such as pertained in the Middle Ages.

The attack on the British Constitution

In 1973 the Brussels bureaucrats aided the Roman design by admitting to the
European Common Market the Vatican's lackey the Irish Republic and the first
two Protestant nations earmarked by the Pope  Denmark and the United
Kingdom. We know very well why the UK took so long to make up its mind:
joining the Continental Europeans meant a dramatic withdrawal from a global
tradition; but did we recognise the underlying plot to destroy the
Protestant heritage of our Nation, whose Queen is the Defender of the Faith?
Romanism and Irish Republicanism, the traditional enemies of our British way
of life which is founded on the principles of Protestant freedom gained by
the Reformation, have once again in our history  this time in the guise of
economic expediency  joined forces against us. Liam Cosgrave, Eire Premier
at that time, specifically told his subjects that membership of Europe could
be used as a means of accelerating a united Ireland. Since that time
Republican terrorism and Ir
ish nationalism, aided and abetted by the Roman hierarchy and facilitated by
the ecumenical perfidiousness of the established Churches, have been
progressively assailing Britain's Protestant faith and Constitution.

On this occasion, however, the gravity of the situation has been increased
by the perfidy and treachery of a Westminster which fell headlong for the
ploy. Never in our Nation's history did a succession of British governments
become so anti-British, so busily and blindly engaged in selling our
birthright to foreigners, denying to the people of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland their right to self-determination, content to sacrifice us
against our will for some ill-conceived, naively misunderstood and
politically fatal goal of European union.

Nowhere is the Romanist attack on Britain so conspicuous and intense as in
Northern Ireland, where the entrenched mediaeval Gaelic mind-set of a
Rome-dominated minority comes into direct conflict with a way of life rooted
in the ethos of the Protestant Reformation. In Ulster, under the familiar
historical guise of pretended lack of 'parity of esteem', Rome and her
Republican terrorist allies are single-mindedly dedicated to expunge,
whether by lies or by murder, the civil and religious liberties rightfully
enjoyed by the Protestant and Unionist majority.

Rome is aided and abetted in this task by those so-called Protestant
Churches which have treacherously jettisoned the principles of their
Reformation-based articles of faith to associate with, condone and seek
compromise with the beliefs and practices of the very Church whose Head they
once regarded as the Man of Sin. Their collective action was profoundly
symbolised at the Church of Ireland Synod in Dublin in May 1997 when
Archbishop Robin Eames, under the watchful eye of a portrait of King William
of Orange to which he had turned his back, vented his spite against the
imaginary 'sectarianism' of Protestant Fundamentalism and the Orange Order 
his two pet hatreds  and advocated the separation of the Church of Ireland
from the very principles on which it was founded. Significantly, Dr Eames
has never uttered a word of condemnation against the blatant sectarianism,
false doctrine and historical massacres perpetrated by the Church of Rome
because, with his ecumenical allies, he
 is actively working for unity with that very Church.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charles scott" <charlesrscott@...>
To: <faithandlife@...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 11:34 AM
Subject: [FaithandLife] European Union must not neglect its spiritual roots


>
> European Union Must Not Be Limited to Economic Factors Alone
>
> Congress Emphasizes Value of Europe's Cultural, Spiritual and Artistic
Roots
>
> ROME, MAY 19, 2003 (Zenit.org).
> - A recent congress, organized to study
> relations between Catholicism and European literature, warns that the
construction of
> the European Union must not neglect its spiritual, cultural and artistic
roots.
>
> The congress entitled "Catholicism and 20th Century Literature. A Bridge
> Between East and West," cautions against a construction of the European
Union limited
> to economic criteria alone, since the literature of the Eastern countries
has
> proven itself as a factor of unity toward the continent and the world.
>
> "In 2004, seven European countries will become part of the European Union,
> countries that belong to what Olivier Clement called the 'Third Europe,'
between
> Russia and the Western countries," Andrea Monda, the organizer and
moderator of
> the meeting, explained to ZENIT agency.
>
> "It seemed opportune for us to pay attention to these countries because,
as the
> Holy Father often stresses, the construction of the European Union cannot
be
> done strictly on the economic factor," Andrea said. "In fact, the
spiritual,
> cultural, and artistic roots of Europe must be re-established."
>
> Andrea Monda emphasized that "art, religiosity, and culture are dimensions
that
> go hand in hand. To forget that Europe was already united in the Middle
Ages by
> the same Christian faith means to risk not creating a real union, but only
to
> partially resolve market problems. These are partial resolutions that do
not
> unify Europe."
>
> "For these reasons, we have opted to look at the literature of this third
> Europe, including great Russia. This part of Europe has given us very
great authors,
> even in the 20th century, such a tragic century. The different speakers
have
> tried to show how in these situations of division and opposition, the
artists
> maintained contact with Europe and the world," he added.
>
> During the congress, held in the "Palazzo Mattei di Paganica,"
headquarters of
> the Italian Encyclopedia, we learned, for example, the history of Tudor
> Arghezi, "a great Rumanian poet and writer who lived the religious
dimension
> profoundly, at a time when his country was under the Communist
dictatorship," Monda
> added.
>
> "The Marxist regimes attempted to suffocate not only spirituality but also
the
> artistic spirit. Tudor Arghezi is an example that art has no limits or
> barriers; it is a privileged channel to give back a common identity to a
Europe that
> seems deprived of it," Monda explained.
>
> John Paul II is very relevant to this debate because with him "the
centrality
> of Poland emerges," Monda stressed.
>
> "The figure of the Holy Father assumes even more the Pontiff's authority
in the
> sense that he builds a bridge. Wojtyla is a Polish poet and philosopher,
but
> his human and spiritual circumstance assumes a universal dimension, a
unifying
> figure who tries to remind politicians about the importance of the
Christian
> spiritual roots," he said.
>
> "The present tendency in Europe is to disregard God, without realizing
that by
> so doing, man is also disregarded," Andrea Monda warned.
>