The determination of some in the EU to ignore both history and the present realities is no surprise. The founders of the then Common Market, notably Monnet, Schumann, Adenauer and de Gasperi were all inspired by the Gospel. But the secularists of the EU, led by Giscard d’Estaing, disregarding the repeated protests led by Pope John Paul II, refused to allow any mention of the Christian cultural inheritance of Europe in the preamble to the failed proposed constitution of the EU.