The paper explores the ambivalent relationship of the Catholic Church towards the process of European integration. While the Church and the EU share a similar narrative of war-prone nation-states and both offer universalist alternatives to the Westphalian political order, their relationship is by no means simple. Drawing on an extensive analysis of both EU and Church documents, the paper argues that although the similarities between the Church and the Union create a common basis for mutual cooperation, differences between the two are growing, hence making a future anti-Westphalian "alliance" less and less likely.
