“Faith does not remain a private fact”, affirms Francis who defends “healthy secularism”

Arriving in Corsica this Sunday, December 15 in the morning for a historic one-day visit to the Isle of Beauty where he was very warmly welcomed in the streets of Ajaccio by a large crowd, Pope Francis took advantage of his participation at a congress on popular religiosity, to relaunch the idea of ​​a “healthy secularism”taking up the words of Benedict XVI who had already developed this idea. “Faith does not remain a private fact which is exhausted in the sanctuary of conscience”explained François, “it implies a commitment and a witness to all for human growth, social progress and the protection of all creation, under the sign of charity.”

It is in fact a matter of promoting a “constructive citizenship”driven by “the audacity to do good” Or “believers can find themselves on a common path with secular, civil and political institutions, to work together for integral human growth and safeguarding…