• The EU as Holy Roman Empire |
Catholic 2005-11-12 |
"[The Vatican] lurks behind the so-called Ecumenical Movement which is inextricably linked with the present attempt to set up a United States of Europe. Developments in Europe were not planned to end with merely economic and political union. Their ultimate goal was revealed in the Papal encyclicals of Pius XII and John XXIII:
Europe would become "the greatest [Roman] Catholic superstate the world has ever known" [and] "the greatest single human force ever seen by man", united within the ancient boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire by the common spiritual bond of religion. The Papal Nuncio in Brussels describes the EU as "a [Roman] Catholic confederation of States".
-- Arthur Noble article