In his article, the archbishop argues that as well as the death toll, there has been a heavy moral cost to civilisation, with no gain.
"The right to life, or as some insist, the right to an abortion, is an important moral challenge for our civilisation, our western civilisation," Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski told RMF FM radio.
Moreover, after all that has happened in the past six months, central Europeans can no longer look up to old countries representing the moral values of western civilisation.
Before the trial began Mr William Faulkner, who won the Nobel Prize for his novels about the South, remarked that what happened in this court room would test the moral worth of American civilisation.
Peter Hitchens, with particular reference to events which occurred in the Soviet Union, argues that his brother's verdict on religion is misguided, and that faith in God is both a safeguard against the collapse of civilisation into moral chaos and the best antidote to what he views as the dangerous idea of earthly perfection through utopianism.
4. Spreading the culture of moral dissolution by promoting it through expressions of civilisation and exchanges of cultures with the west.
One Muslim suitor was magnanimous, saying marriage is the cradle of civilisation and a moral duty upon me.
On the one hand Vladimir Putin, the president, portrays himself as the helmsman of a hallowed civilisation and a moral bulwark against the metrosexual West; on the other, his cronies seem constantly to be pillaging the country.
"I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religious morals of Europe and what they did with the slaves, because the root of the evil is only two generations away from me," he says.
What accounts for this language of catastrophe – a dying continent, moral climate change, the end of civilisation?
