"There are currents that would like to eradicate the spiritual world built by the Church. Forces that methodically work to cast it out of the life of the European man". This is the denunciation of the archbishop of Athens and all Greece, Christodoulos, who today has been awarded an honorary degree in civil and canon law by the Papal Lateran University. In his speech, the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church pointed out "the de-consecration of life in the name of science. Genes are manipulated to destroy the uniqueness of the person and replace it with a non-entity, to abolish moral values and the family". The target of these trends "is the Church. The centre of resistance to such models is the European world, because in Europe the Church is not a secret society, but the source of sociality itself. For centuries, the European society has been in a dialectic relation with the Church. The conscience of Europe is the work of the Church, and the European man is the child of the Church. This is why the forces that want to leave out the Church find so much resistance in Europe. For the same reason, they try to remove the moral foundations of the law as well as tear education away from the bosom of the Christian faith, in the attempt to obliterate the elements of identity of the European man". (to be continued)
