Barcelona, Spain (CNN) — Pope Benedict XVI defended religion from critics Sunday as he dedicated the Sagrada Familia church, a still-unfinished emblem of the Spanish city of Barcelona.
“This is the great task before us: to show everyone that God is a God of peace not of violence, of freedom not of coercion, of harmony not of discord,” he said.
And he pushed back against what he sees as increasing secularism in the world, saying, “I consider that the dedication of this church of the Sagrada Familia is an event of great importance, at a time in which man claims to be able to build his life without God, as if God had nothing to say to him.”
He also defended the traditional family, after Spain’s Socialist government legalized same-sex marriage.
“The generous and indissoluble love of a man and a woman is the effective context and foundation of human life in its gestation, birth, growth and natural end,” he said.
After a recent UN report showed that some of the most healthy societies in the world are highly secular ones, Pope Benedict repeats his call for less secularism.
It’s also interesting how the Vatican still considers Spain to be more than 92 percent Catholic when according to a recent government survey, “just 74 percent of Spaniards still consider themselves Catholics, and only two in 10 regularly attend mass.”
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I guess back in the day, nobody expected Spanish Socialism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVoOpJO6H_g
is there someway that in our present and, modern world, with all our modern medical machines, detect not only the terrorist, bomber loaded to kill innocent people, detect the true sexual nature of the individual? There are some reading in science that i have encountered, that says, that with the modern science in nanotechnology, and with the mapping o the entire human genome, na no surgery, and all that has been suppressed by religion and government kowtowing programs,/////Maybe All those whose, in the priest hood, pastors in the protestant denominations, even from all forms of religion, should be screened, not only of their etiologic, psychological , history, and genetic tendencies.
Let him review the records of the SEX Scandal in Seville, Spain, where innocent children born of the discovered sexual liaison of a seminary and a nunnery of a cave joining the unholy sexual activity during those times, unholy fuck??????and murderers of innocents of their own vestal virgins???? exacto roman pagano?
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