To: wagglebee
What I found most appalling is the Pope's desire to make the "father" of the European Union a saint.
Who?
30 posted on
12/20/2004 8:28:50 PM PST by
Pyro7480
(Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
To: Pyro7480
The article says
Robert Schuman, the French-born founder of the EU
Of course, Schuman didn't found the EU. He was instrumental in the founding of the European Coal and Steel Community, the precursor of the European Economic Community.
He died in 1963, before the EC or the EU.
The ECSC and its treaty took the Ruhr out of international politics after WWII, among other things.
google 'Mouvement Republicain Populaire' for other information about Schuman and his political views.
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