Nicolas Diat: What connection do you make between silence and the sacred?
Cardinal Robert Sarah: The idea of the sacred is particularly misused in the West. In countries that want to be secular – separated from religion and God – there is no longer a link to the sacred.
A certain secular mentality believes it is emancipating itself. Some theologians state that, via the Incarnation, Christ might have brought an end to the distinction between the sacred and the profane. For others, God is so close to us that labelling something as sacred has become outmoded.
