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Vatican City, Vatican, 18th
October 2004 (CNA) -
In a press conference
this morning in the Holy See Press Office, Cardinal
Renato Martino of the Pontifical Council for Justice and
Peace, stated that “the voices of the Holy Father and
the Catholic Church are little heard, above all in rich
and comfortable countries…they are submerged under the
noise created by powerful economic, cultural, and
political lobbies, which mobilize against all that is
Christian.”
During the conference, in which the
book "Pope John Paul II and the Challenges of Papal
Diplomacy," was presented, Cardinal Martino said that
these lobbies create “confusion between gener
identities, laugh at marriage between a man and a woman
and attack human life, which passes for an object of
dangerous experiments.”
He called these lobbies
“new holy inquisitions full of money and arrogance” that
attack the Catholic Church and Christians “using any
valid method to silence their voices, from intimidation
to public rejection and cultural discrimination and
marginalization.”
Remarking on the case of
the rejection by many in the European Parliament of the
designation of Rocco Buttiglione – a devout Catholic and
friend of the Pope – as a comissioner, based on his
Catholic views concerning marriage and homosexuality,
Cardinal Martino said that “the Church is concerned” in
the face of a “mystified democracy based on the axiom
that if you are not in agreement with us, you get
out.”
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