Home
/
RELIGION & LIBERTY ONLINE
/
Europe’s amnesic anniversary
Europe’s amnesic anniversary
Jul 15, 2025 5:35 PM

Despite all the hoopla surrounding the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, all is not well with the dream of a united Europe — at least as it’s envisioned by the political class and Brussels technocrats. In addition to its ongoing economic malaise, the European Union still seems unable to fully acknowledge its cultural, religious and political roots. “People who suffer from amnesia have great difficulty making sound choices about the future because they do not know where they e from,” Samuel Gregg writes. “The same is true for Europe.”

Read the mentary here.

Comments
Welcome to mreligion comments! Please keep conversations courteous and on-topic. To fosterproductive and respectful conversations, you may see comments from our Community Managers.
Sign up to post
Sort by
Show More Comments
RELIGION & LIBERTY ONLINE
Fossil Fuel Follies
The religious crusade against fossil fuels and various methods of extracting it to heat and light our homes, offices, and factories continues apace. The 2014 proxy shareholder season is a veritable spider web of networked religious-affiliated activist groups decrying coal, natural gas, oil, hydraulic fracturing and mining. Ceres, for example, reports “35 institutional investors have filed 142 resolutions in a coordinated effort to spur action by panies” on what it calls climate-related measures. Based in Boston, Mass., the nonprofit group...
Burke vs. Paine on Choice, Obligation, and Social Order
I recently read Yuval Levin’s new book, The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left, and found it remarkably rich and rewarding. Though the entire book is worthy of discussion, his chapter on choice vs. obligation is particularly helpful in illuminating one of the more elusive tensions in our social thought and action. In the chapter, Levin provides a helpful summary of how the two men differed in their beliefs about social obligation and...
Tornadoes, Disaster Relief, and the Power of the Christian Community
At the bottom of this storm and tornado roundup from The Weather Channel, there is a powerful slideshow on the devastation in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama. The death count in the region stands at 31. Mississippi’s Governor Phil Bryant described yesterday as “The most active tornado day in Mississippi history.” Some people forget that it is denominational church agencies that often are the first to meet the material needs and fort to the afflicted. Southern Baptist Disaster Relief is well...
Art at Acton: ‘Perpetual Order’ and the Struggle for Permanence
Yesterday, I had the honor of contributing to a panel discussion on the art of Margaret Vega here at the Acton Institute. Her exhibition is titled, “Angels, Dinergy, and Our Relationship with Perpetual Order.” Some fuller coverage may be ing on the PowerBlog, but in the meantime I have posted the text of my presentation, “Death and the Struggle for Permanence” at Everyday Asceticism. Excerpt: Angels … represent hope amid the human struggle for permanence in a life so characterized...
Is Knowledge Of Religion Important To Culture?
We Americans are rather ignorant about religion. We claim to be a religious folk, but when es to hard-core knowledge, we don’t do well. The Pew Forum put together a baseline quiz of religious knowledge – a mere 32 multiple choice questions – and on average, Americans only got about half of them right. A few sample questions (without the multiple choice answers): Which Bible figure is most closely associated with leading the exodus from Egypt?What is Ramadan?In which religion...
Live from Rome: Faith, State, and the Economy: Perspectives from East and West
Watch our new conference series live from Rome on April 29 at 10:00 a.m. EST. The embedded player below will display our conference stream when it es available. You can also visit the event on our Livestream page in order to see more information and to ask questions during the event. ...
Let’s All Join the Tenth Commandment Club
In our modern era, the ancient sin of covetousness primarily manifests itself in three forms: greed, theft, and arguments about inequality. The greedy selfishly desire to acquire what others have, thieves illicitly acquire what others have, and equality advocates want the government to redistribute what others have. It would be unfair, of course, to assume that all critics of inequality are driven by covetousness. But if you stripped away that sin as a motivation, the number of people who care...
The Love Of A Father And The Economy Of Family
255 Triathlons (6 Ironman distances, 7 Half Ironman), 22 Duathlons, 72 Marathons (32 Boston Marathons), 8 18.6 Milers, 97 Half Marathons, 1 20K, 37 10 Milers: That’s a lot of miles. A lot of training. A lot of numbers. It’s an economy of sorts for athletic achievement. These are some of the stats for Team Hoyt, the father-son team of Dick and Rick Hoyt who have raced together for 37 years. Rick was born with cerebral palsy in 1962, and...
Does Religion Do Us Any Good, Even If We’re Not Religious?
Is there any societal reason to protect religion? That is, do we get anything out of religion, as a society, even if we’re not religious, and is that “anything” worth protecting? Mark Movsesian thinks so. In First Things, Movsesian says religion does do good for a society – a good that is worthy of protection. Religion, munal religion, provides important benefits for everyone in the liberal state—even the non-religious. Religion encourages people to associate with and feel responsible for others,...
Why Resegregation Happens—And How School Choice Can Fix It
With its decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ended systemic racial segregation in public education. Now, sixty years later, courts have released hundreds of school districts from enforced integration—with the result being an increase in “resegregation” of public schools. Numerous media outlets have recently picked up on a story by the investigative journalism nonprofit ProPublica about schools in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. According to the report: In recent years, a new term, apartheid schools—meaning schools whose white population...
Related Classification
Copyright 2023-2025 - www.mreligion.com All Rights Reserved