Cardinal Danneels of Brussels, one of the most addle-pated compromisers in the Catholic world and an absolute disaster as shepherd of the Catholic Belgians, has finally resigned. And the man nominated in his place by the Pope is a living expression of the weary frustration with which Danneels' time in office must have been regarded in the Vatican ( Read more... )

Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of guys. In order to make sure of their own Opel factories, Germany destroyed the Fiat bid for the Opel-Vauxhall company, broke European law with enormous state subsidies, and, even more inexcusably, brought in the Russians, who are not our friends and who have quite enough influence in our continent already ( Read more... )