Restoring the Sacred

Friday, September 3, 2010

Denver Archbishop Chaput: Oppose "State-Encouraged Atheism"


Archbishop of Denver Charles Chaput in an address to the 15th symposium for the Canon Law Association of Slovakia, on August 24th, urged Christians to rediscover "their historic faith as the only sound basis for a just society."

Recalling the historical experience of the Slovakian Church under Communism, Archbishop Chaput told the assembly of Central European bishops and canon lawyers that Christians are being called today to defend the Church's own rights, and the rights of all people, against the “civil religion” of relativism.

Bishop Chaput is the most courageous and outspoken Catholic Bishop in the United States, and is obviously concerned with what Pope Benedict XVI refers to as "the dictatorship of relativism."

The below link to EWTM News provides a summary of Bishop Chaput's address and includes a link to the entire speech.

http://www.ewtnnews.com/new.php?id=1496