On Tuesday at the opening of an international conference on persecuted Christians, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban asserted that Europe can only be saved if it “returns to the source of its real values: its Christian identity”: “Europe is quiet,” Orban said. “A mysterious force shuts the mouths of European politicians and cripples their arms.” He said the issue of Christian persecution... 

At his weekly general audience in the Paul the VI hall today, Pope Benedict continued his catechesis on the Christian culture of the Middle Ages. In the catechesis, the Holy Father turned to the monastic reform linked to the great monastery of Cluny in France. Founded eleven hundred years ago, Cluny restored the strict observance of the Rule of Saint Benedict and made the Church’s liturgy the centre...