” “"For the integration process to be really fruitful went on mgr. Bagnasco , Europe must acknowledge its Christian roots, giving prominence to the ethical principles that are an integral and essential part of its spiritual legacy, from which European modernity draws its own values". "Awareness of its Christian roots he specified does not mean to deny the needs of the fair, healthy laicism of the European institutions, which should not be confused with ideological laicism", but "means stating, first and foremost, a historical fact that no one can seriously object to, because Christianity deeply and decisively belongs to the foundations of the European identity". Therefore, "the rejection of the reference to the religious roots of Europe, far from being an expression of tolerance", he repeated, "is instead the expression of a trend that wants to confine religion to an exclusively private and subjective sphere, raising ethical relativism to ethical dogmatism". (to be continued)” “
