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From Cardinal Comac-Murphy:
" EUROPE is filled with angst and the Roman Catholic Church is in crisis, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, said last night.
In a lecture at Westminster Cathedral, the spiritual leader of more than four million Catholics in England and Wales said that the Church in Europe, in particular Britain, was in a time of crisis and of “dying and rising”.
He described the modern European as a person of angst, in spite of, or perhaps because of, the many liberties enjoyed in contemporary Western culture. He said that Europe would fall into anguish if it forgot God and lost touch with its Judaeo-Christian tradition.
He argued that the greatest temptation facing Europe was not evil but indifference, but he gave warning that the response to aggressive secularism could not be aggressive Christianity. One of the main tasks facing the Church was to recall Europe to its roots in God…"
property.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,2-1627718,00.html
" EUROPE is filled with angst and the Roman Catholic Church is in crisis, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, said last night.
In a lecture at Westminster Cathedral, the spiritual leader of more than four million Catholics in England and Wales said that the Church in Europe, in particular Britain, was in a time of crisis and of “dying and rising”.
He described the modern European as a person of angst, in spite of, or perhaps because of, the many liberties enjoyed in contemporary Western culture. He said that Europe would fall into anguish if it forgot God and lost touch with its Judaeo-Christian tradition.
He argued that the greatest temptation facing Europe was not evil but indifference, but he gave warning that the response to aggressive secularism could not be aggressive Christianity. One of the main tasks facing the Church was to recall Europe to its roots in God…"
property.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,2-1627718,00.html