tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post2844920445959354490..comments2023-10-19T21:48:56.560-05:00Comments on meaning in history: Cardinal Ratzinger On Europe's Crisis of Culturemark wauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-43193757748807724672018-03-27T18:08:06.150-05:002018-03-27T18:08:06.150-05:00Here's another Ratzinger quote, this time from...Here's another Ratzinger quote, this time from the concluding paragraphs to his address in Guadalajara: <a href="http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/RATZRELA.HTM" rel="nofollow">RELATIVISM: THE CENTRAL PROBLEM FOR FAITH TODAY</a> (1996). Note how Ratzinger rejects "neo-Scholastic rationalism" and any <i>"praeambula fidei"</i> out of hand but offers no alternative, then ends mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-67862753273767675452018-03-27T09:03:36.809-05:002018-03-27T09:03:36.809-05:00Another comment initially posted at a different bl...Another comment initially posted at a different blog site:<br /><br />Many Catholics are upset at the Kasper/Bergoglio ploy: we would never dream of denying dogma, but pastoralism ... People are upset because, as applied, that hits them where they live: practical morality about the family and the very identity of the human person. What I meant to point out, though, is that Benedict, from his mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-26238464593109585372018-03-27T08:58:17.082-05:002018-03-27T08:58:17.082-05:00Benedict has throughout his career suggested that ...Benedict has throughout his career suggested that what he calls "the concept of natural law" is no longer useful in our dialogue with secular society. Obviously, that's a lot like the idea that, well, we won't actually deny a truth of faith but we need to find a pastoral workaround. I maintain that the concept of natural law is part of the Apostolic Tradition and, to simplify mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.com