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Western Society Losing Its Religion

Marcello Pera’s New Book Asks How and Why

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by EDWARD PENTIN, ROME CORRESPONDENT Friday, Feb 27, 2009 9:58 AM Comment

Pope Benedict XVI called Marcello Pera’s 2008 book Why We Must Call Ourselves Christians a work “of fundamental importance at this hour in Europe and the world.”

It presents the case that Europe must recognize its Christian roots because only then will it be truly united. At the book launch, Pera argued that the book calls on Europeans to ask themselves who they are, what they believe in,...

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