A soul for the laws - The principle of secularism must not mean hostility to the reality of religion

A soul for the laws - The principle of secularism must not mean hostility to the reality of religion


 For her own part, “the Church,” assured the Pontiff, “desires in this way to offer her own specific contribution to the deeper questions that engage in a more complete picture of the person and his or her destiny, of society and its destiny. This contribution does not solely lie in the anthropological or social sphere, but also in the political, economic and cultural spheres”.

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