Reader's Opinion | The bond between Christianity and Europe has been broken

Our time needs recognition of religious minorities, interfaith dialogue, and living together, and not even a half-hearted yearning for the idea of Christendom.

In a recent interview, on the occasion of his book A Europe Still Christian?, Joseph Weiler, an American constitutionalist half settled in Spain, as a proud Sephardic Jew, has denounced how Christianity has been replaced in Europe by the religion of secularism. For Weiler, who already defended an explicit mention of Christianity in the non-nate Constitution for Europe, this amnesia with regard to Christ is an existential European problem. The re…

In Easter, more than Christmas, most people see the Christian religion as a spectacle than a manifestation of the faith. Many people go to processions to see the images and live the environment, but they don’t know practically everything they see and, worse, they don’t care not to know it. It’s a general phenomenon. European Catholics were 50% of the world’s total a century ago. Now the figure reaches 20% and is on the decline. The figures are f…