Pope warns of 'a desert of godlessness' in Good Friday address

Pope warns of 'a desert of godlessness' in Good Friday address - Daily Mail Online

I find that comments on internet news sites are often openly hostile, intolerant, and even vitriolic toward religious leaders, most particularly the Pope. They often attack what the writers perceive as the "intolerance" of Christianity. Ironically, it is Christianity that planted the seeds from which have blossomed for centuries the best and noblest features of Europe and the Americas. The social and cultural blessings of Christianity have vastly outweighed its aberrations.

The Pope is exactly on target. Radical secularism is attacking the Christian foundations of Europe and the Americas, and threatens to thrust western civilization into an age of darkness, filled with intolerance and hatred toward religious faith ...the "flowering" of what John Paul II aptly named the "Culture of Death".