Pope Benedict XVI struck back at European secularists this week who have mandated anti-Christian sex education and civics classes for young people and who are attacking the conscience rights of health care workers, reportsLifeSiteNews.com. In remarks to the assembled diplomatic corps of the Vatican on Monday, Benedict warned that although free religious expression is a constitutionally recognized right in most European countries, the religious freedom of believers is threatened by a heavily secularized statism. The pope highlighted an irony that exists in countries where “a constitutionally recognized right to religious freedom exists,” but religious people and communities are threatened “because the legal or social order is inspired by philosophical and political systems which call for strict control, if not a monopoly, of the state over society.” The pope decried an increasing “tendency to consider religion, all religion, as something insignificant, alien or even destabilizing to modern society” across European societies. He warned that there are attempts “to prevent it from having any influence on the life of society.” To read the full story, click here.
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