TO welcome the birth of our Lord this Christmas; some friends of mine have asked me to offer some thoughts on the intimate relationship between our politics and our Christian faith. They wanted to talk about our well-known Catholicism in relation to the political and economic policies of the state. I am at heart a Christian Democrat, and I strongly believe that the objective moral law is the necessary foundation of good government.
But on this occasion, I had to quote what an Italian cleric was reported to have said on the subject.
