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Fri 01 Jan 2007Churches lack dynamic structure, says archbishopA climate of materialism and rejection of Christian values in the EU may be due to a lack of dynamism in the churches' pastoral structure for evangelisation, the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, has said."Religion plays a large role in the personal life of most Europeans. The growing religious pluralism in Europe has brought home to those who had thought that religion's days were past, that religion is indeed an important social factor also," he said.