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Pope: the state must protect the role of religion in the public sphereUpon receiving the new ambassador of Italy to the Holy See

ROME, Friday, December 17, 2010 (ZENIT.org) .- The religious dimension favors the real progress of the country, and therefore it is necessary to protect its role in the field of public sphere. This was stated today by Pope Benedict XVI to meet the new ambassador of Italy to the Holy See, Francesco Maria Greco, on the occasion of the presentation of credentials. In his speech to diplomats, the Pope said monitor with the phrase "the vicissitudes of joy and sadness" of the country, predicting that the Lord can keep him "the precious treasure of the Christian faith" and "the gifts of concord and prosperity. " Benedict XVI recalled how "difficult phase in the current historical, national and international" celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, offering the opportunity for "reflection, not just kind of memorial, but also of projecting character."

Earlier in his speech greeting the pope, the new ambassador had said that "respect for the secular state certainly does not make us deaf to the invocation of Your Holiness that all economic and political decision not dispense with a moral dimension." "Even the most intransigent lay spirits - went - can not deny the fact that public role that faith and religion should play in governance and that allows both the believer and the unbeliever, invoke the consistency between ethics and politics."

Therefore, he added, "We are convinced that the Church can contribute to back a new energy to the national community, holding high a sense of national unity that federalism echo solidarity and a strengthened social cohesion." 

This solidarity should not be construed as desresponsabilización or social assistance - Greco said - but as the driving force that pushes the man to engage in justice and peace. "The ambassador said after the partnerships that bind the two countries, as well as the tunes on interventions both nationally and in the international arena. In particular, he stressed the common commitment to "fight against religious discrimination and intercultural and interfaith dialogue" which has become Italy as "the new frontier of its foreign policy."For his part the Pope reaffirmed the Church in Italy does not seek "power, privileges or positions of economic and social advantage, but only to be assured" the full exercise of religious freedom "and recognized" the legitimate role of religions and religious communities in the public sphere. "

Moreover, history and Italian culture are "so deeply marked by the Catholic Church", he observed, that when you have tried in the past deny or marginalize "is painful and dangerous imbalances caused fractures in the social life of the country."In this connection, the Pope referred to "attempt to rid public places exhibition of religious symbols" in reference to the case submitted to the Court of Strasbourg Lautsi Soile, an Italian citizen originally from Finland, which in 2002 had asked the institute Vittorino da Feltre in Abano Terme (Padua), attended by his two sons, the removal of crucifixes from classrooms.The Pope expressed his appreciation to the Italian Government for having acted "in accordance with a correct vision of secularism and in light of its history, culture and tradition, finding in them the positive support also from other European countries."

The Italian government, supported by twenty other countries including Russia, appealed to the House against the decision of 3 November 2009 on the case Lautsi, with which the European court of human rights deemed the display of the crucifix in the public school classrooms as a violation of freedom of thought, conscience and religion. Finally, the Pope recalled that currently there are still "open violations of religious freedom" and it has predicted it to grow in all parts of the awareness of this problem "and" intensify efforts to see occur everywhere and all, full respect of religious freedom. "By Mirko Testa, Italian translation by ZENIT

Comment

As we fence about the "Time of Jacob's Trouble" described in the Book of Daniel, thepowers of darkness will unite to oppose the Government of God, coalesced into secret societies, these Powers plan to rule the world under one flag Many of the big puzzlepieces but its centerpiece is the Papacy, that apostate who managed to muster thepolitical and religious power under one name "BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATION OF THE EARTH" with whom merchants of the earth, and the high and the great men of renown traffic and fornicate, this power, the power of Papal Rome thirsty for the blood of the saints, plunging the world into the so-called "Armageddon" which symbolizes the final showdown between God's truth in His Word, and lie expressed in commandments and traditions of men, between the immutable and eternal law of the Almighty, and the law of sin which man has been exalted above God himself to be God and all that is cult, that band is, the time approaches, these treasured for heaven? or on the ground where the final fire prepared for Satan and his angels will consume it completely ... it is time to decide!