Pope Benedict wants a combative Catholicism

While Christianity disappeared from radar, especially young people, the Pope opened an account to send messages to Twitter and has signed an article in the Financial Times.
 
Their content is: God is not dead, "he knocks on your door." At Christmas Mass, Joseph Ratzinger lamented that "contemporary thought, to be considered serious, must be constructed so as to obviate the God hypothesis. There is no place for him."
 
Benedict XVI, in the Financial Times, urged Christians to make coherent choices. They work on the stock exchange or are members. These are not only questions of morals which disturb the Church, but also the social, political, economic, financial. "When Christians refuse to bow before false gods, it is not a vision of the ancient world. Rather, they are inspired by a vision so noble of human destiny they can not make any compromise. "
 
The slogan is "conscientious objection" and the defense of their Christian beliefs even when they are against the current.
 
Benedict XVI reverts to his key idea: the constructive dialogue with agnostics and atheists "in search of the truth," and the followers of other religions.
 
According to the Pope, an "alliance" with them on issues of ethics that are at stake such as "reason" and "natural law" is possible. Under this logic, he has recently cited the argument of the Chief Rabbi of France Gilles Bernheim, against adoption by gay couples.
 
Principles defended by the Church "are not truths of faith, they are entered into human nature, identifiable reason," regularly insists Benedict XVI. According to him, changes in certain realities (marriage, the beginning and end of life, bioethics) will cause "serious injury to justice and peace."
 
Pope mobilizes his brightest  writers for these battles: the new guardian of dogma Gerhard Ludwig Míeller the Patriarch Angelo Scola of Milan via the "Minister" Culture, Gianfranco Ravasi.
 
"Alongside Benedict XVI, form small but influential group of bishops (...), very attentive to pronounce (...) on the central issues of culture and society, which focus on the vision anthropological man, "said the Vatican Sandro Magister.
 
Bishop Scola for example doubted in mid-December the neutrality of the "French secularism", which would reduce faith to the private sphere.
 
"The state is called neutral, he said, taking a specific culture, secularism, by legislation that became the dominant culture but also a negative power in relation to other identities, especially religious present in civil society which tends to marginalize or expel them. "
 
Bishop Míeller criticized the "neo-atheism" Contemporary reduce everything to a scientistic approach and treat a believer asa "parasite". German Archbishop attacked in bestsellers like "The Illusion of God" by biologist Richard Dawkins.
 
Ravasi has broughtfrom his side this weekend a touch happier though paradoxical, citing a forum on "the kindness of God" the writings of French author atheist Jean-Paul Sartre on the wonder of Mary's birth of Jesus.