The EU was the product of Otto von Habsburg. He started working on it in the 1940s, as I recall.
Fidel Castro was baptized and raised a Catholic.
Will he be next?
Is this a joke, or did this man have a level of devotion to Christ that is not apparent in the excerpt?
My first thought on this is how could any politician by holy enough for sainthood.
Then I recalled that quite a few kings were canonized back in the day, and they made it in despite a fair amount of war and bloodshed.
From a Christian perspective , Schuman was a man who wished to infiltrate the clergy to fundamentally change the Catholic Church's mission from service to Jesus and salvation of souls to a secular social services organization based on a Marxist/humanist philosophy with a goal fo supporting an united, secular European state (ie, the EU) with an eventual goal of a united world government
Francis is one of his collaborators Schuman may be a saint in some church but he is an anti saint from a Judaeo Christian perspective.
I’ve never heard of him, but from the looks of it, he was also apparently in favor of world government:
“Our century, that has witnessed the catastrophes resulting in the unending clash of nationalities and nationalisms, must attempt and succeed in reconciling nations in a supranational association. This would safeguard the diversities and aspirations of each nation while coordinating them in the same manner as the regions are coordinated within the unity of the nation.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schuman
Whatever that heretic is for, I’m against.
Heroic virtue?