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Pope Benedict’s vision for Europe includes a “healthy secularity”, according to Francis Campbell, the British Ambassador to the Holy See.
Presenting the annual Craigmyle Memorial Lecture in the Palace of Westminster, Mr Campbell explored how the Holy Father views today’s Europe in the light of history, and especially the problem of secularism. “His aim is to heal the rift with the Enlightenment,” he said.
“Europe is a geographical concept only in a way that is entirely secondary. Europe is not a continent that can be comprehended neatly in geographical terms; it is a cultural and historical concept,” wrote the then Cardinal Ratzinger in 2000. Mr Campbell concentrated on Pope Benedict’s view of Europe’s culture and history. What is causing the crisis of confidence in Europe today? he asked. “For Benedict it comes down to the rupture between faith and reason ushered in at the time of the Enlightenment and developed in the centuries since then. It is about a Europe cut adrift from its roots and history.”
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Presenting the annual Craigmyle Memorial Lecture in the Palace of Westminster, Mr Campbell explored how the Holy Father views today’s Europe in the light of history, and especially the problem of secularism. “His aim is to heal the rift with the Enlightenment,” he said.
“Europe is a geographical concept only in a way that is entirely secondary. Europe is not a continent that can be comprehended neatly in geographical terms; it is a cultural and historical concept,” wrote the then Cardinal Ratzinger in 2000. Mr Campbell concentrated on Pope Benedict’s view of Europe’s culture and history. What is causing the crisis of confidence in Europe today? he asked. “For Benedict it comes down to the rupture between faith and reason ushered in at the time of the Enlightenment and developed in the centuries since then. It is about a Europe cut adrift from its roots and history.”
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