The Church should not become the government’s alibi. Its role is to preserve the distinction Moscow has violated and Brussels risks misunderstanding: the Church is not the state, and the faith is not the man who exploits it.
The question is not whether Leo XIV has spoken well. It is whether the institutional architecture exists for any temporal authority to answer, and whether any European institution has been authorised to ask the anthropological question the encyclical raises.
Sovereign states coordinating defence by consent, in preference to an emergency federalism that issues handbooks because it cannot field divisions: that is the only direction worth defending.
