The European Referendum

With whatever enthusiasm (or lack of it) we face the coming EU referendum, it does raise important political issues that Catholics need to reflect on in the light of the principles of social teaching.

To kick off, a few interesting (albeit random)  resources I've come across:

1) A discussion of subsidiarity in Catholic social teaching and the EU. From the Reimagining Europe blog (here).

2) For the wearers of tin foil hats amongst us: 'Is the European Union a Catholic Plot' (From First Things here.)

3) 'Catholic origins of the European Union' (From Zenit, here.)

4) Address of St John Paul II to European Parliament 1988 (here) and Pope Francis 2014 (here).

5) The section of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church dealing with International Organizations here (sections 440-443).

No doubt I shall be returning to this...