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THE KEY challenge facing the world “is the role of religion in the public square”, former British prime minister Tony Blair has said. “Is it a force for good or a force for ill? A force for healing or for conflict? A force of reaction or a force for progress?” he asked. “How these questions are answered will, in many ways, determine the spirit and the events of the 21st century.” Mr Blair was writing in the current edition of the UK Catholic Tablet magazine.

He continued: “We are, understandably, preoccupied with the threat posed to us by violent religious extremism.” But the issue was wider. Even where there was not extremism expressed in violence, “there can be extremism expressed in the idea that a person’s identity is to be found not merely in their religious faith, but in their faith as a means of excluding the other person who does not share it”.

Faith was problematic when it became “a way of denigrating those who do not share it as somehow lesser human beings. Faith is then a means of exclusion. God in this connection becomes not universal but partisan, faith not a means of reaching out in friendship but a means of creating or defining enemies.”

It seemed to Mr Blair we were moving into a period when interfaith action will come into its own. In that complex context Pope Benedict’s encyclical Caritas in Veritate was “a powerful call . . . that resonates both ecumenically and with the deepest moral sentiments of the different world religions”.

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