On 22 October, the White House released a video showing twelve bishops praying for and with Trump in the Oval Office. All hell broke loose: much of the American Catholic press, which leans towards the Democrats, immediately criticised the bishops, questioning whether it was really appropriate, twelve days before the election, to take part in that scene

“What is legal is not necessarily moral,” said Leo XIV before the sick at Lourdes

Essayist Alexander Grau: “Saying that those who vote for Alternative für Deutschland are not Christian will not win back those who have chosen the far right”. The risks and prospects following the triumph in Saxony-Anhalt

The appeals from various churches, from the Catholic to the Evangelical, to counter Alternative für Deutschland, have come to nothing. The risk of political ‘retaliation’ is extremely high

In many European countries, the Church has lost its identity, and it is here that the West itself has lost the meaning of its own civilisation. A useful lesson may come from Africa. Without any trace of paternalism