A Papal Message to the EU on its 50th Anniversary

The above is reported on in this article: Build Up "New Europe," Urges Benedict XVI. Some pointed questions from the Holy Father:

Is it not a surprise that contemporary Europe, although it wishes to present itself as a community of values, seems more and more to contest the existence of universal and absolute values?

Does not this unique form of 'apostasy' from itself, even prior to an apostasy from God, lead to doubts about its identity?

Indeed. One of Hilaire Belloc's more famous and more controversial statements was that "the Faith is Europe and Europe is the Faith."