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Complete human formation is solution to dictatorship of relativism, Pope says

Vatican City, Sep 30, 2009 / 11:07 am (CNA).- With 10,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict XVI dedicated Wednesday’s general audience to retracing the stages of his journey to the Czech Republic. The history of the region, the Pope explained, shows us that progress must either be rooted in “integral human formation” or risk falling prey to dictators. In our day, the dictator is relativism, coupled with the dominance of technology.

The journey to the Czech Republic, he said, “was both a true pilgrimage and a mission to the heart of Europe, a pilgrimage, because Bohemia and Moravia have for over one thousand years been territories of faith and holiness, a mission, because Europe needs to find in God and His love the firm foundation of hope.”

"The love of Christ is our strength,” the Pope stated, explaining that it is "a force which inspires and animates real revolution, peaceful and free, and which sustains us in times of crisis, allowing us to rise again when painfully recovered freedom is in danger of being lost, of loosing its true meaning.”
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See also from Asia News, "Pope urges integral human formation against "dictatorship of relativism."

And from YouTube-Vatican's Channel:

Benedict XVI: The love of Christ is our strength
September 30, 2009

posted by Dr. Denice Hanley, DPM, M.Div. @ 2:08 PM