The pope wrote this important letter about Europe, on the 50th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the European Union.<\/p>\n
In the letter, he warns about the temptation of populism and asks the European continent to rediscover the ideals that led to committing to what unites its peoples, and not to what separates them.<\/p>\n
He warns that the pandemic forces a choice between \u201cthe path we have taken in the past decade, yielding to the temptation to autonomy and thus to ever greater misunderstanding, disagreement and conflict;\u201d and \u201cthe path of fraternity that inspired and guided the founders of modern Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n
It's a message reminiscent of the one he gave to EU leaders during the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. <\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope calls for \u201ca Europe marked by a healthy secularism,\u201d \u201cwhere God and Caesar remain distinct, but not opposed;\u201d \u201cwhere believers are free to profess their faith in public and to put forward their own point of view in society.\u201d<\/p>\n He says this certain secularism that closes the doors to others, and especially to God, is outdated, \u201cfor it is evident that a culture or political system that lacks openness to transcendence proves insufficiently respectful of the human person.\u201d<\/p>\n It's a strong letter, to be read carefully in these times of crisis, and one that marks an exciting prospect for the future.<\/p>\n JMB<\/p>\n Translation: Christian Campos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 27, 2020. \u201cA culture or political system that does not respect openness to transcendence does not adequately respect the human person,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yp1yR0EFyNc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bletteraeuropaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bletteraeuropaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cForms of populism are instead the fruit of an egotism that hems people in and prevents them from overcoming and \u201clooking beyond\u201d their own narrow vision.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n