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POPE-SECULARISM Dec-11-2006 (470 words) xxxi
Pope denounces 'false secularism' that bans religious symbols, input
By John Thavis
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI denounced what he called a "false
secularism" that bans religious symbols from public places and excludes
religious input on crucial moral questions.
While the church does not seek to interfere with the freedom of every
people to organize its political life, it cannot be mute in front of
threats to human life and human dignity, the pope said.
He made the remarks in a talk Dec. 9 to the Union of Italian Catholic
Jurists, which was meeting in Rome to discuss the theme of secularism in
modern society.
In his speech, the pope synthesized a theme that has become a cornerstone
of his pontificate: that modern societies are drifting toward an
ideological form of secularism that excludes God and moral law and
relegates religion to the realm of the individual conscience.
In this narrow vision, he said, the separation between church and state is
understood as prohibiting the church from making its views known on moral
issues.
"This secularism would even mean the exclusion of religious symbols from
public places ... such as offices, schools, courts, hospitals and prisons,"
he said.
"At the foundation of such a concept lies an areligious vision of life,
thought and morality: a vision in which there is no place for God, or for a
mystery that transcends pure reason, or for a moral law of absolute value,
in force at all times and in all situations," he said.
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respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
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256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
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