Pope Says European Church Faces Dire Threat
(Pope Benedict's) argument, elaborated in the years leading up to his election and continuing through his daily speeches and pronouncements, reduces to something like this: secularism may be one of the great developments in history, but the secularism that holds sway in much of the West — that is, in Western Europe — is flawed; it has a bug in its programming. The mistaken conviction that reason and faith are two distinct realms has weakened Europe and has brought it to the verge of catastrophic collapse.