A Penny Catechism (for Philosophers)
EDITORIAL
Fides et Ratio (FR) “Faith and Reason,” the Holy Father’s new encyclical, is an old philosopher’s gift to Mother Church, and it calls us to our lessons.
Warm-up question: What did The New York Times say in its news section?
The Times reported that the encyclical signals “paradoxes” — we have a papacy “marked by a return to rigid conformity in doctrinal matters,” and yet we have a Pope who “still meets regularly with scholars to debate ideas….”
Hmm. Was the Times’s dumbfounded woman on the beat, Alessandra Stanley, perhaps angling for an invitation? Are there scholarship funds (not that she’d really need them)?
You May Also Enjoy
Here we review Viganò vs. the Vatican: The Uncensored Testimony of the Italian Journalist Who Helped Break the Story.
This Faith has three basic dogmas: the primacy of desire, the creative energy of competition, and “nonjudgmentalism.”
Strange Spirits & Alien Gods... Pope Benedict's Tightrope Act... Avery Cardinal Dulles & Fr. Richard John Neuhaus: In Memoriam...