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The prospects for Christianity in the 21st century largely depend on how Catholicism and Orthodoxy develop together. Particular attention should be paid to the negative trends that are leading to a steady decline in the real influence of Christianity on events and processes worldwide.
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Life proceeds as a set of interrelated processes. There are objective processes that are independent of a person, and there are also subjectively conditioned processes that people can control. For example, the evolution of the Earth’s biosphere is an objective process. Within the framework of the evolutionary process, a global historical process is taking place, i.e. the process of changing human society, the results of its interaction with the environment, objects of material culture, monuments of writing, customs, rituals, etc. …
The international policy of the second half of XVI and the first half of XVII centuries was determined by the division of European States into two religious camps. Of them greater cohesion and a more aggressive character differed the Catholic camp, at the head of which stood the Habsburgs, first the Spanish (during the time of Philip II), then Austria (during the thirty years war). Protestantism had defenders in the face of such rulers and politicians as Elizabeth of England, William of orange, Henry IV of France, Gustav Adolf of Sweden, and in the face of entire Nations whose national independence was threatened by a Catholic reaction. …
At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, Catholicism, adjusting to the demands of the era in order to preserve its influence, allowed for a renewed turn at the second Vatican Council, which marked the beginning of Ecumenical openness of the Church, which had serious consequences, expressed in the spread of religious pluralism and tolerance, in the active process of pacification, which accelerated the de-Christianization of Western society. …
The collection of articles combines several sources revealing the activities of the ancient Satanic cult. These are personal autobiographical descriptions of participants and victims of the cult, as well as materials of journalistic and judicial investigations. The theme of splitting the personality of cult victims as a result of targeted sexual and ritual violence runs through all these materials as a connecting thread. These testimonies are the richest material for analysis. But the surprising fact is that the scientific community ignores these sources. …
Without stopping the process of de-Christianization of Western society, John Paul II, however, achieved significant success in strengthening the position of the Vatican as a major player in the world political arena. Here the Holy See has secured a well-defined niche, firmly linking its policy with American strategic interests. …
Strengthening the international influence of the Vatican accompanied by widening external openness of Catholicism and active part in the Ecumenical movement, committed with “purification of the historical memory” working on “reconciling” with other religions. If the second Vatican Council only outlined this restructuring of consciousness, then John Paul II brought it to its logical end. …
Simultaneously with the strengthening of internal Church positions, the Vatican set itself the task of restoring its international political weight and influence, and primarily by strengthening its positions in Eastern Europe. As for both the Vatican and the United States, these States have become the main arena of geopolitical confrontation with the Soviet Union, their strategic interests here completely coincided. …
After the Second world war, Europe began an active secularization of the restructuring of public consciousness, which took place in the conditions of approval of the new economic ideology, designed to justify the formation of a society of “mass consumption” and “General welfare”. …
In France, a new wave of scandal around Catholic priests accused of pedophilia, and their patrons from the Vatican. On Tuesday, the court of Lyon summoned two high-ranking hierarchs of the Catholic Church: Archbishop of Lyon, cardinal Philip Barbaren and prefect of the Congregation of the doctrine of faith Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer. …
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