Christianity Today: "Rome Won't Give Up on Europe Without a Fight"

Here's an appreciative article in Christianity Today, the evangelical magazine, on the Pope's campaign to win back Europe by preaching "basic Christianity" (an evocative term for evangelicals).  Among the thoughts:

Benedict seeks to mend an open wound in Europe politicians have not been able to heal. Secularism offers European nations no basis for relating to or confronting the highly religious immigrant populations now settling in their cities. Skeptics may rightly wonder whether church history offers a better way of coping with pluralism, given Europe's experience with interdenominational warfare. But Benedict deserves credit for steering the church back to basic Christianity in hopes of reminding Europe that the gospel of Jesus Christ once turned a barbarous continent into the cradle of Western civilization.