{"id":65095,"date":"2025-10-02T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=65095"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:44:08","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-european-institutions-need-people-who-know-how-to-live-a-healthy-secularism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/pope-leo-xiv-european-institutions-need-people-who-know-how-to-live-a-healthy-secularism\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV: \u2018European institutions need people who know how to live a healthy secularism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; margin-bottom: 25px;\">\n  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/images\/politicians.sept.29.2025.jpg?ssl=1\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; max-width: 100%\" \/><br \/>\n  <span style=\"text-align: right; font-style: italic;\">Pope Leo XIV meets with members of the European Parliament\u2019s Working Group on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue on Sept. 29, 2025, at the Vatican. \/ Credit: Vatican Media<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Vatican City, Sep 29, 2025 \/ 14:52 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV on Monday said European institutions need \u201cpeople who know how to live a healthy secularism\u201d while urging recognition that religion has value both on a personal and social level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the religious dimension is authentic and well cultivated, it can greatly enrich interpersonal relationships and help people live in community and society. And how important it is today to emphasize the value and importance of human relationships!\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Leo XIV made his remarks on Sept. 29 when receiving at the Vatican the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eppgroup.eu\/\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">European Parliament\u2019s Working Group on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue<\/a>. The objective of this structure, an initiative of the European People\u2019s Party (EPP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epp.eu\/parties-and-partners\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">coaltion<\/a>,\u00a0is to promote dialogue between different cultures, religions, philosophical beliefs, and nondenominational communities within Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The pope also emphasized that participation in interreligious dialogue, by its very nature, \u201crecognizes that religion has value both on a personal level and in the social sphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing men and women of dialogue means remaining deeply rooted in the Gospel and the values \u200b\u200bderived from it and, at the same time, cultivating openness, listening, and dialogue with those from other contexts, always placing the human person, human dignity, and our relational and communal nature at the center,\u201d the pope explained in his address.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy Father emphasized that promoting dialogue between cultures and religions is a \u201cfundamental objective for a Christian politician\u201d and cited as examples Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer, and Alcide De Gasperi, considered the founding fathers of what eventually became the European Union, who also lived their faith as a sociopolitical commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, he urged the cultivation of a style of thought and action that affirms the value of religion, while \u201cpreserving its distinction \u2014 not separation or confusion \u2014 with respect to the political sphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Dit verhaal <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aciprensa.com\/noticias\/117709\/papa-leon-xiv-las-instituciones-europeas-necesitan-personas-que-sepan-vivir-una-sana-laicidad\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>werd voor het eerst gepubliceerd<\/em><\/a><em> door ACI Prensa, de Spaanstalige nieuwspartner van CNA. Het is vertaald en bewerkt door CNA.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/266833\/pope-leo-xiv-european-institutions-need-people-who-know-how-to-live-a-healthy-secularism\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/266833\/pope-leo-xiv-european-institutions-need-people-who-know-how-to-live-a-healthy-secularism<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paus Leo XIV ontmoet op 29 september 2025 in het Vaticaan leden van de werkgroep voor interculturele en interreligieuze dialoog van het Europees Parlement. \/ Bron: Vatican Media Vaticaanstad, 29 sep 2025 \/ 14:52 uur (CNA). Paus Leo XIV zei maandag dat Europese instellingen behoefte hebben aan \u201cmensen die weten hoe ze een gezond secularisme moeten beleven\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":65092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-65095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CNA_LOGOredblk-239.png?fit=2692%2C752&quality=69&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":72824,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/photos-pope-leo-meets-the-tiniest-members-of-the-flock-babies\/","url_meta":{"origin":65095,"position":0},"title":"PHOTOS: Pope Leo meets the tiniest members of the flock \u2014 babies","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"februari 16, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Pope Leo XIV blesses a baby on All Saints Day\u2019 2025. \/ Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 25, 2025 \/ 07:00 am (CNA). 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