(CNS News) – In an address to a delegation from the Conference of European Rabbis last week, Pope Francis said that society is “increasingly marked by secularism and threatened by atheism.”
The pope said that Jews and Christians have “a responsibility to help preserve the religious sense of men and women.”
Here is an excerpt from the pope’s address:
Today, in Europe, it is more important than ever to emphasize the spiritual and religious dimension of human life. In a society increasingly marked by secularism and threatened by atheism, we run the risk of living as if God did not exist. People are often tempted to take the place of God, to consider themselves the criterion of all things, to control them, to use everything according to their own will. It is so important to remember, however, that our life is a gift from God, and that we must depend on him, confide in him, and turn towards him always. Jews and Christians have the blessing but also the responsibility to help preserve the religious sense of the men and women of today, and that of our society, by our witness to the sanctity of God and human life. God is holy, and the life he has given is holy and inviolable.
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