This scientific event brought together various bodies, institutions and academic, political and media organizations at Villa Noel to draw up an assessment of the sensitive issues related to religious freedom and conscience, spirituality and secularism, symbols loaded with meaning. intellectual, ethical and emotional. The papers are a contribution to the debate on the epistemological and ethical distance "politically correct" for secularism and spirituality at the service of freedom by considering two paradigmatic cases, two European countries, Romania and France, one of which is statistically the most religious in Europe and the least religious, and in their respective public spaces, the relationship between spirituality and secularism is different.