Sep 28, 2026 · 43 min · 9 segments
There's a new Pope in town and he's got very different ideas on what France's far-right calls the defense of Christian civilization. Leo the 14th concluding his trip to France in the eastern city of…
François PicardHost
Andrea Antonio VerardiGuest
Yves Saint-OmerGuest
Elena Pompei
Christine PedottiGuest
Now, one of the interesting points was that he, again, he made this speech on Europe.
We heard a clip from earlier inside a hall that bears the name of Robert Schuman, born in Luxembourg, forced to enroll in the German army in World War I, who joined the resistance and the free French in World War II.
Before the May 9th, 1950 speech, which is seen as a founding moment of what is now the European Union.
For more than 20 years, the champion of a united Europe, Europe has not been made, we have had war.
Why would you canonize, albeit a Christian Democrat, but in a traditional sense? It was really a
Catholic who was inhabited by his spiritual life and who was able to combine the spiritual analysis he had, and the political commitment that was his, to say, never again war.
He was truly a Catholic, but at the same time studied his faith and was able to put his reason and his faith together and to come up with this strong vocation to never more war.
Yeah, it's to offer to the politicians of our time a model of people that completely use spirituality to open to new... reconciliation and peacetime for Europe.
Schuman lived last years of his life with huge illness that forbidden to public act as President of the European Commission, but it still remains a light for the Catholics and politicians that in the 50s worked for a united European Commission.
And Robert Schuman is also a model, not only a model, not only for a Christian that fight for peace, but a Christian that live completely also the problem that life put to him, offer to him.
Yves Saint-Omer, this idea of Europe, universal values, tolerance, as André is saying also, and we heard it in the speech, this is the Pope, sanctity of life.
He's against the euthanasia bill that's just recently been passed in this country.
Because on certain positions, for peace, for Europe, for welcoming migrants, he would be a left-wing guy.
And, I mean, this is both a strength and a weakness of the Catholic Church now to be on different sides of the political divide.
It's a strength because you can bring together people from quite different borders, but it's also a weakness because then what is a possibility for this church to... adopt a view which would be, say, coherent with the modernity.
Now, one of the interesting points was that he, again, he made this speech on Europe.
We heard a clip from earlier inside a hall that bears the name of Robert Schuman, born in Luxembourg, forced to enroll in the German army in World War I, who joined the resistance and the free French in World War II.
Before the May 9th, 1950 speech, which is seen as a founding moment of what is now the European Union.
For more than 20 years, the champion of a united Europe, Europe has not been made, we have had war.
Why would you canonize, albeit a Christian Democrat, but in a traditional sense? It was really a
Catholic who was inhabited by his spiritual life and who was able to combine the spiritual analysis he had, and the political commitment that was his, to say, never again war.
He was truly a Catholic, but at the same time studied his faith and was able to put his reason and his faith together and to come up with this strong vocation to never more war.
Yeah, it's to offer to the politicians of our time a model of people that completely use spirituality to open to new... reconciliation and peacetime for Europe.
Schuman lived last years of his life with huge illness that forbidden to public act as President of the European Commission, but it still remains a light for the Catholics and politicians that in the 50s worked for a united European Commission.
And Robert Schuman is also a model, not only a model, not only for a Christian that fight for peace, but a Christian that live completely also the problem that life put to him, offer to him.
Yves Saint-Omer, this idea of Europe, universal values, tolerance, as André is saying also, and we heard it in the speech, this is the Pope, sanctity of life.
He's against the euthanasia bill that's just recently been passed in this country.
Because on certain positions, for peace, for Europe, for welcoming migrants, he would be a left-wing guy.
And, I mean, this is both a strength and a weakness of the Catholic Church now to be on different sides of the political divide.
It's a strength because you can bring together people from quite different borders, but it's also a weakness because then what is a possibility for this church to... adopt a view which would be, say, coherent with the modernity.
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