European Governments and other institutions are currently engaged in complex negotiations over the question of the accession of Turkey to the European Union. Many doubts and reservations on this matter have been raised in the past years. Those who support Turkey’s joining the EU maintain that it would prove to be a natural ally of the West in the fight against Islamist Fundamentalism. However, Turkey today is no longer the lay country of Kemal Ataturk: with the 2002 elections, further confirmed by the 2004 elections, the “party of the veil” led by the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the President Abdullah Gul, both with a proven background of radical Islamist fundamentalism, came into power. The Treaty of Lisbon stipulates that each State in the European Union has a political weight directly proportional to its demographics. Turkey, with its almost 85 millions inhabitants, would therefore be the most populated country and, as a consequence, the most represented in the European Parliament. While Europe is giving up on its Christian roots, Turkey exhibits an extremely well-defined and strong religious – political identity and its request to join the EU has not been put forward in order to renounce such identity, but, on the contrary, to impose it more widely. With or without Erdogan, Turkey would become the leader of the Islamic minority within the European institutions, where it will no doubt play a central role. So would the potential joining of Turkey be of benefit or, instead, an irreparable catastrophe for our Continent? This book poses the question and raises the alarm.

John Andrew ARMOUR, M.D., Ph.D., Neurocardiologist, Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Montréal, Centre de Recherche, HôpItal du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, (Canada).

Rainer BECKMANN, Judge, member of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine, Expert Member of the Commissions “Law and Ethics of Modern Medicine” (2000-2002) and “Ethics and Law of Modern Medicine” (2000-2002), ( Germany ).

Fabian Wendelin BRUSKEWITZ, Bishop of the Diocese of Lincoln , Nebraska , ( USA ).

Paul A. BYRNE, M.D., FAAP, Neonatologist, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical University of Ohio, and Director of Pediatrics and Neonatology at the St. Charles Mercy Hospital of Oregon, Ohio, (USA).

Roberto DE MATTEI, storico, Professore all’Università di Cassino e all’Università Europea di Roma, Vice Presidente del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, (Italia).

David Wainwright EVANS, M. D., FRCP, Cardiologist, Fellow Commoner of Queen’s College, Cambridge ( United Kingdom ).

Joseph C. EVERS, M.D., FAAP, Pediatrician, Fellow American Academy of Pediatricians, ( USA ).

Cicero GALLI C0IMBRA, MD, PhD, Clinical Neurologist, Professor at the Federal University of Sao Paulo UNIFESP , ( Brazil ).

David J. HILL, M. A., FRCA, Emeritus Consultant Anaesthetist, Adden-brookc’s Hospital, University of Cambridge , ( United Kingdom ).

Michael POTTS, Philosopher, Professor at the Methodist University , Fayette-ville , North Carolina , ( USA ).

Josef SEIFERT, P.h.D, Philosopher, Rector of International Academy for Philosophy of Liechtenstein, member of the “Pontifical Academy of Life”, ( Germany ).

D. Alan SHEWMON, M.D, PhD, Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Neurology and Vice Chair of Neurology at the University of California . Member of the “Pontifical Academy of Life “, ( USA ).

Robert SPAEMANN, Philosopher, Emeritus Professor at the Stuttgart, Hidelberg, Salzbury Universities, Member of the “Pontifical Academy of Life”,(Germany).

Wolfgang WALDSTEIN, Philosopher, first Professor for Roman Law in Innsbruch, Salzburg Emeritus Professor and Former Rector in the University of Salzburg, Member of the “Pontifical Academy of Life”, (Germany).

Yoshio WATANABE, M.D., FACC, Cardiologist, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Fujita Health University, Director of the Toyota Medical Center ,( Japan ).

Walt Franklin WEAVER, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medicine , University of Nebraska , Omaha , ( USA ).

Ralf WEBER, Jurist, Professor at the University of Rostock , Member of the Ethics Commission of the Chamber of Physicians in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, ( Germany ).

Release Date: September 01, 2004
Publisher: Gracewing
Pages: 224pp.

The solemn beatification of Pope Pius IX in 2000 was a celebration of the heroic virtue of one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. This book is the story of his pontificate, the longest after St Peter’s, which unfolded against the historical background of turmoil and revolution in Italy and Europe. To the English reader, Pius IX is best known for the restoration of the Catholic Hierarchy, the convening of the First Vatican Council, and for the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and of Papal Infallibility. He played a central role in the drama of the Risorgimento that led to Italy’s unification. He was quick to identify the threat posed not just to the Church, but also to the foundations of society and morality, by the anti-Christian revolutionary masonic movement, and his steadfast defence of the Papacy, of the social sovereignty of Christ and the truth of Catholic doctrine preserved both Church and Papacy through decades of revolution, exile, occupation and persecution.

“For the depths of its documentation, the rigour of its analytical discussion, and its doctrinal exactitude, this is a work no serious student of Catholic or European history should do without.” – Sunday Times

By: Roberto de Mattei

Release Date: August 2007

Publisher: Chronicles Press/The Rockford Institute

Pages: 92pp.

“With the integrity of his life as an authentic Catholic, Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira offers us a confirmation of the Church’s continuing fecundity”. – Cardinal Alfons Maria Stickler, in his foreword to The Crusader of the Twentieth Century, a biography of Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira by Roberto de Mattei, professor at the University of Cassino.

In these pages, Roberto de Mattei argues that “The best way to approach Islam is to respect it. And to respect it means to accept it for what it is, without ‘reinterpreting’ it and trying to make it what it is not.” His is such a sensible approach that it unlikely to be taken up by our leaders, because to view Islam “as it really is” involves jettisoning illusions upon which our foreign policy has been built for decades.

Our leaders suffer from a lack of understanding, a lack of imagination, and a lack of will. They are content to serve as justification for Robert Louis Stevenson’s remark that man does not live by bread alone, but chiefly by catchwords. Their thinking is that, with catchwords, we can muddle along-and we can, for a while. The true catch is that, once that while is over, it may be too late to rectify things.

-From the Foreword by Karl Keating, President of Catholic Answers