Vatican official blasts Americans’ faith-CathNews NZ/Pacific

Vatican official blasts Americans’ faith

Friday, December 14th, 2012

A “grey pragmatism and mediocrity” has infiltrated Christianity in America, according to an official of the Vatican’s Latin America commission.

Professor Guzman Carriquiry, secretary for the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, said there is a growing tendency for Americans’ faith to be lived with a lack of enthusiasm, lukewarmness and ignorance.

“How many Christians today have buried their baptism under a cloak of consumerism and indifference?” he asked during an international conference on America in the Vatican’s Synod Hall.

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