The analysis of Pope Benedict XVI speech, in September 2006, lets see, clearly, some signs of present Catholic illness: the regression to the period before the Second Vatican Council, concerning to doctrine and policy on other religious beliefs. The fracture of the Christian world in many religions, distinct and antagonistic, partly explains the disease. Their origins lie in the relationship between religious life and political life as a fundamental cause of the unequal Christianity interpretation in the worlds Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox. It is therefore a particular disease of Christianity; it starts in the fact that Roman Catholicism is the only one to have a centralized hierarchical structure, an absolute government and a state tradition. Only Christianity would be able to compete with the political realities that were created during the formation of modern states.
Christianity; Pope Benedict XVI; European Catholicism; religion and state.