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Benedict urges West to keep the faith Pope says Western countries are rejecting their Christian heritage at their own peril VERONA, Italy (CNS) - Addressing Italian Catholic leaders, Pope Benedict XVI said that unless the West returns to its Christian roots it will be unable to dialogue with other religious cultures. The Pope did not mention Islam in his speech but his theme was one he has explored with increasing frequency in regard to dialogue with Muslims: that the followers of non-Christian religions like Islam mistrust the West’s secular drift. He spoke in the northern Italian city of Verona to some 2,700 Church delegates of the Fourth National Church Convention, a pastoral planning meeting held once every 10 years.
The pontiff arrived in Verona under heavy security and was welcomed warmly as he rode through the city in a popemobile. The pope’s speech explored a favourite topic of his 18month-old pontificate: that personal faith should have a cultural impact, particularly in areas of the family, marriage, protection of human life and education. While praising the vitality of Italian Catholic organisations and the country’s religious traditions, the Pope said Italy shares in a dominant Western culture that tends to exclude God and religion from public life. He warned that the human being is increasingly considered as a simple product of nature and thus susceptible to being treated “as any other animal,” which leads to a weakening of moral and ethical norms.
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TROUBLE IN PARADISE Letters relaying gripes and a stinging satire written in 1517 are on display at a Vatican exhibit marking the 500th anniversary of the construction of St Peter’s Basilica.
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“It’s not difficult to see how this type of culture represents a radical and profound separation not only from Christianity but more generally from the religious and moral traditions of humanity,” he said. As a result, he said, Western culture “is not able to undertake a real dialogue with other cultures in which the religious dimension is strongly present.” Nor is it able to respond to the fundamental questions about the meaning of life, he said. The Western culture’s focus on rationality as the measure of all things and its “overly individualistic” ethics have led to a real risk of “detachment from the Christian roots of our civilization,” he said. One specific area the Pope developed in his talk was that of traditional marriage and the family. He said the Church’s “no” to what he termed “weak and Continued - Page 3
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US Bisops emphasise that receiving holy Communion is a privilege, not a right, criticising those who “give selective assent to the teachings of the Church”.
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