“The debate on the recall of the Christian roots in the European Constitution and the question of the reference to God are not trifles of the Pope and some reactionaries who were in a state of hibernation during the Enlightenment: it is on the contrary a crucial question”, declared Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, president of the Austrian Bishops’ Conference, in an intervention in Frankfurt in recent days. The archbishop of Vienna referred to the principle according to which modern democracy lives in conditions that it cannot set by itself alone. “In the last analysis he added it lives by virtue of the reference to God, first and last guarantee of the person, his freedom, his unconditional dignity and his inalienable responsibility”. Schönborn was in Frankfurt to participate in the celebrations that annually commemorates Charlemagne, considered the “father of the West”.
