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Friday, July 08, 2005 Embattled cardinal seeks Pope's support Spanish Cardinal Antonio Rouco is appealling to the Pope to help with the cultural crisis in Spain: Cardinal Antonio Mar'a Rouco Varela of Madrid told Pope Benedict XVI this week that in Spain 'there is a denial not only of faith, but also of human intellect, as can be seen in the recent legislation on marriage and the family'. The Socialist Government of President Jose Luis Zapatero passed legislation on 30 June that makes same-sex unions legal in Spain, and allows homosexual couples to adopt children. Cardinal Rouco, accompanied by 2,000 pilgrims from the Madrid Archdiocese, was received by the Pope on Monday in the Paul VI room at the Vatican. He told Benedict XVI that Spanish society is "strongly tempted by a relativist culture and radically secular lifestyle choices taken as if God did not exist". The Pope did not refer directly to the new law on same-sex unions but asked Spaniards to spread the word of God "in a society thirsty for real human values, which is suffering from such great divisions." He said all believers should "feel impelled to go, as if sent by Christ, in search of those who have distanced themselves from the community." An appropriate and bold answer. If not for lazy Christians, would relativism thrive as well as it does today? posted by Shaun Kenney \| 7/08/2005 01:11:00 PM \| 0 comments 0 Comments: Post a Comment Home
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