Pope Benedict XVI and Freedom

This is an excellent article by Alejandro A. Chafuen at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.

I think this idea really gets to the heart of a voluntarily spiritual society that can hopefully emerge from Europe (and the rest of the world):

Cardinal Ratzinger focused on teaching the importance of convictions, rather than force. On November 6, 1992, at the ceremony where Ratzinger was inducted into the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the Institute of France, he explained that a free society can only subsist where people share basic moral convictions and high moral standards. He further argued that these convictions need not be "imposed or even arbitrarily defined by external coercion.

Thanks for the link, Brad Lips