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Kevin Lewis, National Affairs
Church Scandals Must Come
Fr. Stephen Freeman, Glory to God for All Things
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Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
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Boris Kachka, Vulture
The EU Flag’s Marian Symbolism
Giacomo Galeazzi, Vatican Insider




October 24th, 2012 | 8:47 am
Re The EU Flag’s Marian Symbolism
It is a curious fact that the three principle architects of the EU were all Catholics. Something else they shared in common was thatt hey were all from marginal German-speaking areas: West German Chancellor Adenauer (Rhineland), French Prime Minister Robert Schumann (born in Luxembourg of parents from Lorraine) and Italian Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi (Trentino Alto Adige).
De Gasperi actually sat in the Vienna parliament pre-1914