PETER SUTHERLAND’S argument that Christians should support Britain remaining in the European Union has raised the hackles of one Catholic MP. Bill Cash, a prominent Eurosceptic, told us that invoking Christianity in defence of the EU is “massively misleading”.
Sutherland, a former EU commissioner (for competition policy and education), argued in a lecture at the Jesuit-run Heythop College last month that the aim of the EU was to create a political entity that would be “an expression of the Christian values of the dignity of man and the equality of man”.
Cash, who was educated at another Jesuit institution – Stonyhurst College – said he would have liked the chance to debate against Sutherland. There were a number of Eurosceptic Catholics, h
26 October 2013, The Tablet
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