The European Commission has published a guideline proposing to replace “Christmas” with “holiday season” to draw attention to other religious communities. There was a violent reaction from the Vatican, writes PT. Pope Francis condemned the European Union’s attempt to replace the traditional “Christmas” with supposedly more neutral terms such as “holiday season”. He said it was a move that could be attributed to a repressive regime. Journalists quoted the pope as saying: “Throughout history, many, many dictatorships have tried to do this.”
“Think of Napoleon: then think of the Nazi dictatorship, the communist dictatorship … This is the fashion for diluted secularism, but it doesn’t work,” said the head of the Roman Catholic Church. the path of ideological colonization “, as otherwise this would only lead to a split between the Member States and the disintegration of the whole bloc. The European Union must respect each country as structured, the diversity of countries, and not seek to “The resolution to change the existing wording for Christmas has appeared in the EU’s guide to ‘integrative communication’, which advises EU bureaucrats on how to make their messages more meaningful.” understandable to minority groups. “Christmas” was considered inappropriate because it could cause discontent among followers of religions other than Christianity. there is outrage among the more conservative. The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, even described it as an attempt to “destroy our roots, the Christian dimension of our Europe.”
