Pope compares EU to dictatorship for attempts to ban Christmas

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The pope said the EU risked falling apart if it became a vehicle for “ideological colonisation”.

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The pope, 84, said the bloc risked falling apart if it became a vehicle for “ideological colonisation” as he left Greece following a four-day trip.

Trying to ban such Christian terms amounted to “a fad, watered-down secularism,” Francis said. “It is something that throughout history has not worked.”“In history, many dictatorships have tried to do these things. I’m thinking of Napoleon, the Nazi dictatorship, the Communist one.” Francis, who was speaking on board the papal plane taking him back to Rome, said mandarins in Brussels “must respect...the variety of countries and not want to make them uniform. I don’t think it will do that...but be careful, because sometimes they come and throw projects like this one out there.”

Pope Francis said he was prepared to travel to Moscow to meet Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church - Reuters “For example, in the case of abuse in the church, the attitude was to cover it up - an attitude that unfortunately still exists today in a large number of families.”The pope, who after the publication of the report expressed his “shame”, revealed he had not read it himself but would discuss it with French bishops when they visited him later this month.

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