God belongs in the new EU constitution

DANA Rosemary Scallon is spot on in calling for a specific reference to God in the draft European constitution.

God belongs in the new EU constitution
Wed, 22 Oct, 2003 - 01:00

To leave it out is a highly politicised view of the future being envisioned for us by our EU masters.

The newly-enfranchised countries of Eastern Europe are as attracted to the guarantees of religious freedom as to the economic and democratic dimensions of the new political dispensation. And without John Paul II’s papacy, would Solidarnosc have ousted state-sponsored atheism and degraded socialism in Poland?

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