Tag: Benedict XVI
Catholic Teaching and Global Political Authority
Devon, PA. Peter Haworth has rightly drawn our attention to the new Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace document, "Towards Reforming the International Financial...
A Tenancy of Will
Your body’s yours, just as this poem is mine: to make, destroy—a tenancy of will, for every citizen and concubine.
Personality, Conversion, and Being: On John Paul II’s “Fides et Ratio”
The Reader Objects!: If God is Personal and Loving above all, if the Christian believes reason is fundamentally preceded by what is revealed in Faith, then what grounds has the Christian for speaking to the non-Christian? What hope for meaningful dialogue have we if Caritas precedes and envelops all?
The Culture of Atomic Eros and the Hatred of the Church
It is time to consider what the latest uproar against Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church tells us about the state of our society. It is an ugly truth: the reordering of western society to the one imperative of sexual fulfillment. But, ultimately, to paraphrase T.S. Eliot, we shall die not of decadence but of boredom.
Sex, Technocrats, and Technobrats
Devon, PA. During the last few weeks, Patrick Deneen's posts on Front Porch Republic have drawn our attention to the near identity of the...