” “”While any religious ground for violence, whatever its origin, must be clearly and radically rejected, we must highlight that in political life one cannot but take into account the contribution given by the religious view of the world and humankind”. This is the belief of mgr. Giovanni Lajolo, president of the Governorship of Vatican City, who, as he spoke yesterday in New York at the 61st General Assembly of the UN, highlighted: “As stated by the Pope, if reason turned a deaf ear to the divine and confined religion to the sphere of subcultures, it would automatically cause violent reactions; and violent reactions are always fake copies of the true religion”. Referring back to Benedict XVI’s lecture in Regensburg, the archbishop explained that the Pope intended to give "a push and an encouragement for a positive dialogue" between religions and between "the modern reason and the faith of Christians". "By defending the openness" of culture and politics "to transcendence", according to mgr. Lajolo, Benedict XVI only meant to help "open the Western thought to the wealth of the heritage of all religions”. ” “
