Otto Von Habsburg (1912-2011)
Just as the old Europe would not have arisen without God, the new one must not simply be a big market or a big administration. Neither Communism in the East nor the consumer economy of the West is giving a valid answer to the final questions of man-kind. If Communism was shattered because a godless system cannot survive, that is also true of the materialist format that certain market idolaters want to give to the European Community.
Naturally we need a free and social economy, for that is the only kind that works and serves people. But a Europe without Christianity would have to collapse like a house of cards, because it would have no soul.
Reprinted from Return to Center by Otto von Habsburg, translated by Amalthea Verlag, Ariadne Press, 1993, p. 214
