{"id":2515,"date":"2006-04-29T01:14:37","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T01:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/benedict-on-church-and-state.html"},"modified":"2006-04-29T01:14:37","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T01:14:37","slug":"benedict-on-church-and-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/benedict-on-church-and-state.html","title":{"rendered":"Benedict on Church and State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christopher Blosser has a nice round-up of links (as usual!) on the issue at the Fan Club.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The relationship between church and state and their proper jurisdictions have figured heavily in the remarks of Pope Benedict in the first year of his pontificate, as well as in his very first encyclical Deus Caritas Est<\/span><\/em><\/a>. The Holy Father has advocated "a healthy secularism of the state," yet he has defended the legitimate role of religion in the moral and cultural development of the nation and the Church’s role as a voice of moral conscience, reminding the state of its obligations to the common good. <\/p>\n

Writing in his former capacity as Cardinal, the Pope has stated "the Christian is always Someone who seeks to maintain the state in the sense that he or she does the positive, the good, that holds states together." At the same time, in a lesson rooted in his childhood experience of National Socialism, he has commented on the dangers of a totalitarian state — a state which presumes itself to be "the whole of human existence [and] the whole of human hope," insisting that "the first service that Christian faith performs for politics is that it liberates men and women from the irrationality of the political myths that are the real threat of our time." <\/p>\n

What follows is a brief compilation of some of our Holy Father’s remarks on this pertinent issue<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Christopher Blosser has a nice round-up of links (as usual!) on the issue at the Fan Club. The relationship between church and state and their proper jurisdictions have figured heavily in the remarks of Pope Benedict in the first year of his pontificate, as well as in his very first encyclical Deus Caritas Est. 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