{"id":1076120,"date":"2021-12-02T10:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1076120"},"modified":"2021-12-02T10:28:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:28:43","slug":"vatican-secretary-of-state-denounces-e-u-attempt-to-cancel-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vatican-secretary-of-state-denounces-e-u-attempt-to-cancel-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Secretary of State Denounces E.U. Attempt to \u2018Cancel\u2019 Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvatican-secretary-of-state-denounces-e-u-attempt-to-cancel-christmas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1076120&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has denounced a European Union communication manual barring the use of \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d in favor of \u201cHappy Holidays,\u201d Vatican News reported this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEurope owes its existence and identity to many contributions, but it certainly cannot be forgotten that one of the main contributions, if not the main one, was Christianity itself,\u201d Cardinal Parolin said. \u201cTherefore, destroying the difference and destroying the roots means destroying the person.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/it\/papa\/news\/2021-11\/parolin-natale-cancellato-persona-discriminazioni-santa-sede.html\">interview<\/a> with Vatican News, Parolin decried the \u201ccancellation\u201d of the roots of Europe, \u201cespecially as regards Christian holidays and the Christian dimension of our Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Banning \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d or references to Christmas holidays is wrongheaded, the cardinal insisted, because it fails to respect culture and the legitimate differences between people in an attempt to \u201chomogenize\u201d everything to a least common denominator.<\/p>\n<p>These differences \u201cshould not become an opposition or a source of discrimination, but must integrate precisely to build a full and integral humanity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The internal communications guidelines were drafted by Helena Dalli of Malta, the European Commissioner for Equality, in a purported effort to promote \u201can inclusive communication.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18972690\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1231630453.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18972690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1231630453-1024x697-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"674\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>European Commissioner for Equality Helena Dalli takes a selfie with a face mask bearing rainbow colours during a plenary session at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium on March 10, 2021. (JOHANNA GERON\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdesouche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/guidelines-for-Inclusive-communication.pdf\">document<\/a>, titled \u201cEuropean Commission Guidelines for Inclusive Communication,\u201d provides rules for Commission employees for all communications including press releases, social media posts, speeches, and training materials.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-page manual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/european-commission-cancel-christmas-inclusive-language-lgbtq\/\">stipulated<\/a> abandoning any references to holidays of specific religious traditions in favor of generic expressions such as \u201cwinter break,\u201d as well as more gender-neutral, LGBTQ+ friendly language.<\/p>\n<p>The text also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilgiornale.it\/news\/cronache\/follie-ue-l-inclusivit-vietato-dire-natale-e-chiamarsi-maria-1992290.html\">recommended<\/a>&nbsp;avoiding the use of \u201cChristian names\u201d in hypothetical examples, and thus, instead of saying \u201cMary and John are an international couple,\u201d one should rather say \u201cMalika and Julio are an international couple.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy initiative to draft guidelines as an internal document for communication by Commission staff in their duties, was intended to achieve an important aim: to illustrate the diversity of European culture and showcase the inclusive nature of the European Commission towards all walks of life and beliefs of European citizens,\u201d Dalli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agensir.it\/quotidiano\/2021\/11\/30\/commissione-unione-delluguaglianza-ritirato-il-controverso-documento-dalli-non-e-maturo-toia-parlamento-ue-quel-testo-esclude-non-include\/\">said<\/a> in her defense.<\/p>\n<p><em>Famiglia Cristiana<\/em>, one of Italy\u2019s top-selling magazines, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.famigliacristiana.it\/articolo\/chi-e-helene-dalli-la-commissaria-per-caso-autrice-della-topica-sul-natale.aspx\">declared<\/a> Wednesday that the EU communication guidelines were not the first attack on Christian Europe by Helena Dalli, but just the latest in a long string of such assaults.<\/p>\n<p>Dalli has promoted the elimination of the expression \u201chusband and wife\u201d in marriage ceremonies in favor of \u201cI declare you spouses,\u201d the article noted, while urging that \u201cfather\u201d and \u201cmother\u201d be replaced by \u201cparent 1\u201d and \u201cparent 2\u201d on birth certificates and other official documents.<\/p>\n<p>Following widespread criticism of the E.U. text, the commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/30\/eu-advice-to-ban-terms-like-christmas-time-to-be-inclusive-withdrawn-after-backlash\/\">walked<\/a> it back, with Dalli referring to the document as a \u201cwork in progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a 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