Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, head of
the powerful Italian Bishops Conference (CEI), said Monday that
Europe must consider why its citizens are joining Islamic State
(ISIS) extremist death squads.
The problem is not because of unemployment but due to a
culture at home that is found to be "empty of its own spiritual,
moral, anthropological" guidelines, said Bagnasco.
Meanwhile, he told the CEI's ruling council that honest
people "can and must react against corruption" after the latest
in a long line of graft scandals.
Corruption, he said, is "a very grave offence for the poor
and the honest. That is intolerable".
As well, he warned that gender education could lead to the
creation of "transhuman" beings.
But Italian parents have the "freedom of education for
their children," which is permitted not as a "favour" but
instead is a "fundamental right".
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