{"id":1090797,"date":"2021-12-06T16:58:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1090797"},"modified":"2021-12-06T16:58:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:58:56","slug":"pope-francis-slams-e-u-attempt-to-cancel-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-slams-e-u-attempt-to-cancel-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Slams E.U. Attempt to Cancel 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\">16<\/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%2Fpope-francis-slams-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=1090797&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 Pope Francis said Monday that the European Union\u2019s recent attempt to cancel Christmas is an \u201canachronism\u201d more worthy of a Napoleon or a Hitler than modern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>During the return flight from Greece to Rome Monday, Francis was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/it\/papa\/news\/2021-12\/papa-francesco-conferenza-stampa-viaggio-cipro-grecia.html\">asked<\/a> what he thought of the recent E.U.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/faith\/2021\/12\/02\/vatican-secretary-of-state-denounces-e-u-attempt-to-cancel-christmas\/\">document<\/a> on \u201cinclusive communication\u201d that eliminated references to Christian holidays in favor of more generic holiday greetings and inclusive language.<\/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>\u201cThis is an anachronism,\u201d the pope responded, noting how throughout history \u201cmany, many dictatorships have tried to do it\u201d and failed. \u201cThink of Napoleon\u2026 think of the Nazi dictatorship, the Communist one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is in vogue with watered-down secularism,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut this is something that did not work during history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new style guide was drafted by Helena Dalli of Malta, the European Commissioner for Equality, an LGBT activist. The <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 stipulates language to be used by Commission employees for all communications including press releases, social media posts, speeches, and training materials.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19022026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236926714.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19022026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236926714-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A Swiss guard stands next to a Christmas tree before Pope Francis general audience at Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on December 1, 2021. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 30-page manual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/european-commission-cancel-christmas-inclusive-language-lgbtq\/\">mandates<\/a> abandoning any references to Christian holidays in favor of generic expressions such as \u201cwinter break,\u201d as well as more gender-neutral, LGBTQ+ friendly language.<\/p>\n<p>As an example, the text directs employees to avoid the use of \u201cChristian names\u201d in hypothetical examples. Instead of \u201cMary and John are an international couple,\u201d it states, one should rather say \u201cMalika and Julio are an international couple.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with its efforts to de-Christianize language, the manual also pushes the use of gender-neutral expressions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur communication should never presume that persons are heterosexual, identify with their gender assigned at birth, or identify in a binary way (male or female),\u201d it declares.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAvoid terms like \u2018both sexes\u2019 and opening addresses with \u2018ladies and gentlemen,\u2019 so as not to exclude intersex persons and gender-queer people and not to make them invisible,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n<p>When challenged about the document, Dalli said the text was a \u201cwork in progress\u201d but defended her efforts to promote inclusivity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/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>In his response Monday, Pope Francis also warned against efforts to homogenize Europe and the failure to recognize and respect cultural differences.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19022034\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1230297485.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19022034\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1230297485-1024x640-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"619\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A priest walks in front the nativity scene in St. Peter\u2019s square at the Vatican on December 25, 2020, as the Pope delivers a live-streamed Urbi et Orbi blessing inside the Vatican Blessing hall amid the Covid-19 pandemic. (VINCENZO PINTO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The European Union must \u201cbe careful not to lead the way to ideological colonization,\u201d which could \u201cbring down the European Union,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe European Union must respect each country as it is structured inside, the variety of countries, without trying to standardize,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The EU has to be careful, \u201cbecause sometimes they come along with projects like this one and they don\u2019t know what to do,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union must \u201crespect the singularity of each country,\u201d he said, and be careful not to become a vehicle of ideological colonization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 Pope Francis said Monday that the European Union\u2019s recent attempt to cancel Christmas is an \u201canachronism\u201d more worthy of a Napoleon or a Hitler than modern Europe. 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