Pope Warns Against Extremism, Praises Ecological ‘Fresh Air’
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Pope Benedict XVI warned German lawmakers that Europe risked descending into a “state of culturelessness” that invites extremism, using the rise of the Nazis to highlight the kind of breakdown that must be resisted.
In the first address by a pope to the German parliament, Benedict equated the Nazis to a “band of robbers,” saying that “we Germans know from our own experience” what happens when secular culture becomes disconnected from a higher order.