As is well-noted, many (almost all) the principles and conquests of the last centuries in the West (equality, freedom, fraternity between equal and free people, individual rights, etc.) are also, if not entirely, children of the maturation of the seeds of Christianity in the European land, even those expressions that the Church often fights because it does not recognize its own. We're talking about gathering the seeds of truth that are maturing or that have matured outside of the Church (women's rights, environmental ethics, animal rights, etc.).
Come è ben noto, molti (quasi tutti) i princìpi e le conquiste degli ultimi secoli in Occidente (uguaglianza, libertà, la fraternità tra uguali e liberi, i diritti individuali ecc.) sono anche, sebbene non interamente, figli della maturazione del seme del cristianesimo nel terreno dell’Europa, anche quelle espressioni che spesso la Chiesa combatte perché non riconosce sue.