EU Commission saves "Merry Christmas", withdrawn the guidelines on language
Pope Francis in Athens, meeting with young people: "Live with courage"
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06 December 2021 "The EU document on Christmas is a" watered-down secularism "anachronism, said Pope Francis, answering journalists' questions about the flight that brought him back to Rome at the end of the trip to Cyprus and Greece. "In history - he observed - many dictatorships have tried to do these things, I am thinking of Napoleon, or of the Nazi dictatorship, of the Communist". "Today it is a fashion, of a watered down secularism, it is distilled water.", Added Francesco. "This makes me think of one thing, I think it is necessary. The EU must take the ideals of the founding fathers in hand, be careful of ideological colonization. The EU must respect each country for how it is structured inside and the variety must not uniform. Each country has its own peculiarity,respect the uniqueness of each country and be careful ".
"Dangers for democracy are populisms and 'empires'"
"Today I see two dangers against democracy - the Pope replied - one is populisms, which are starting to show their nails here and there. I think of the great populism of the century. last that was Nazism ". "Another way of weakening democracy - he added -, more slowly, is when national values are sacrificed, towards an 'empire', a supranational government. It is something that must make us think".
"For brother Kirill willing to go to Moscow"
"The meeting with Kirill is in the near future", the patriarch of Moscow announced Pope Francis in the press conference on the flight from Athens to Rome, hinting that he will be the one to visit the Pope in the Vatican. Then he added: "I am willing to go to Moscow, to talk to a brother there are no protocols, a brother is a brother. We are brothers and we talk things to each other, it's nice to see brothers arguing, they belong to the same mother. Church, but they are a bit divided. We must walk towards unity, I am grateful to the patriarchs who want to walk together. Theologians continue to study because it is good for us but at the same time we continue to walk together by doing charity together , praying together. We can do this,the rest should be done by theologians who we do not understand how to do it ".
"Archbishop Paris resignation accepted on the altar of hypocrisy"
"When chatter grows, grows, grows and takes away fame, how could Aupetit be able to govern? A man whose fame has been taken away publicly cannot govern, so I accepted his resignation, not on the altar of truth but on the altar of hypocrisy "Pope Francis commented on the resignation of the archbishop of Paris, who ended up at the center of a media sex scandal, accepted on 2 December.