| Do we really have room for God, when he knocks at our door? Do we have space for migrants, refugees, for our neighbors? These are the questions that Benedict XVI posed to faithful at the Christmas Eve Mass in the Vatican Basilica. Where God is forgotten or even denied, there is no peace. Today, the Pope added, widespread currents of thought assert the exact opposite: they maintain that monotheism, the belief in God, is a form of arrogance, because of intolerance, because by its nature it imposes itself with the pretence of being the only truth. While the misuse of religion in history is indisputable, however, is not true that "no" to God would restore peace. If God's light is extinguished, so is the d ... |
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