Pope Francis’ recent address when receiving the Charlemagne Prize is not a particularly strong support for the notion that the Church is “keeping its game up,” and offers little evidence that that Church still effectively supports a Christian humanism as the key to the European Union ’s future. Except for one brief paragraph, the speech could have been written by a good secular humanist.
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Does Francis want secular or Christian humanism?
Fr. Mark Pilon, Littlemore Tracts
Friday, May 13, 2016
Pope Francis’ recent address when receiving the Charlemagne Prize is not a particularly strong support for the notion that the Church is “keeping its game up,” and offers little evidence that that Church still effectively supports a Christian humanism as the key to the European Union ’s future. Except for one brief paragraph, the speech could have been written by a good secular humanist.