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Pompedda: but Europe is not Christian anymore
*****«The European Constitution corresponds in many ways to the Christian vision». These were the words Cardinal Mario Francesco Pompedda, Prefect Emeritus of the Apostolic Signet, said in an interview published in Corriere della Sera on 17 December.
The interview states: «Christianity must go back to being a message, in the realization that today it is no longer understood in the public world, not because other elements have united in a plot against it: as I see it we must avoid the double risk of a facile triumphalism on the one hand and, on the other, of the assumption of a defeatist attitude in the face of a secularization seen fatalistically as victorious… The presupposition that Europe is still substantially and largely Christian is not realistic. This is evident in countries such as France, once the firstborn of the Church, which today numbers a great number of unbaptized people. But also in countries such as Italy we must have the courage to look at the everyday experience of people, more than at the statistics on baptisms».
Pompedda: but Europe is not Christian anymore
*****«The European Constitution corresponds in many ways to the Christian vision». These were the words Cardinal Mario Francesco Pompedda, Prefect Emeritus of the Apostolic Signet, said in an interview published in Corriere della Sera on 17 December.
The interview states: «Christianity must go back to being a message, in the realization that today it is no longer understood in the public world, not because other elements have united in a plot against it: as I see it we must avoid the double risk of a facile triumphalism on the one hand and, on the other, of the assumption of a defeatist attitude in the face of a secularization seen fatalistically as victorious… The presupposition that Europe is still substantially and largely Christian is not realistic. This is evident in countries such as France, once the firstborn of the Church, which today numbers a great number of unbaptized people. But also in countries such as Italy we must have the courage to look at the everyday experience of people, more than at the statistics on baptisms».