Pope: Christian culture is more than historical artifact

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**Calls It a “Guarantee of a Truly Promising Future”
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VATICAN CITY, NOV. 2, 2009 (Zenit.org).- The cultural heritage of Christianity is more than a treasure to be preserved in a museum or the annals of history, says Benedict XVI.

The Pope spoke of the importance of Christian culture on Saturday upon receiving in audience Nikola Ivanov Kaludov, the new ambassador of Bulgaria to the Holy See.

“The Christian culture that profoundly permeates your people is not only a past treasure to preserve,” the Pope explained, “but rather the guarantee of a truly promising future in as much as it protects man from the temptations that always threaten to make him forget his own grandeur, as well as the unity of the human race and the demands of the solidarity that it implies.”

In his addressed delivered in French, the Holy Father also recalled that this month marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, “which allowed Bulgaria to choose democracy and to rediscover free and autonomous relations with the whole of the European continent.”

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