"Sometimes you really need a little distance to be grateful," said the German theologian.

„Sometimes you really need a little distance to be grateful. The rule of law, freedom, prosperity, cultural richness: Europe is blessed with so many good things,” Augsburg theologian Johannes Hartl wrote on his social media, as higlighted by the Catholic Kath.net news site.

 

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In his post, Johannes Hartl, the founder of the Augsburg House of Prayer, wrote that he had travelled a lot in his life, had loved many countries and had met „amazingly beautiful places and nice people” everywhere.

„But I am even more fascinated by the cultural, religious and institutional heritage of this ancient continent [Europe].

It is such a pity that it has largely forgotten that it owes much of this to Christianity…”

– the theologian stated.