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The Meaning of Cardinal Ratzinger (National Review's Michael Novak)
http://www.nationalreview.com/novak/novak200504190839.asp ^

Posted on 04/19/2005 4:16:19 PM PDT by quesney

Cardinal Ratzinger has diagnosed relativism’s evils, and offers an alternative.

Cardinal Ratzinger’s sermon on relativism at the Mass for the Election of a Supreme Pontiff hit the note most important both in his own life and in the coming life of the Church, in an age calling itself “post-modern” but perhaps more accurately described as the Age of Meaninglessness.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: benedict; benedictxvi; michaelnovak; moralrelativism; pope; ratzinger

1 posted on 04/19/2005 4:16:21 PM PDT by quesney
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To: quesney

Great article. Thanks for posting the link.


2 posted on 04/19/2005 4:25:42 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." Pope JPII)
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To: quesney

Bump for later read...


3 posted on 04/19/2005 4:43:39 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: quesney

No wonder the MSM are terrified of the new Pope.


4 posted on 04/19/2005 4:49:27 PM PDT by hershey
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To: quesney
His "Dictatorship of Relativism" will be an everlasting phrase like "Coalition of the Willing"
5 posted on 04/19/2005 5:00:29 PM PDT by leadhead (Never Underestimate the Power of Stupid People in Large Groups)
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To: leadhead

bump


6 posted on 04/19/2005 5:01:50 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: quesney
Against the "Age of Meaningless", the "Agelessness of Meaning".

The selection of this Pontiff inspires Hope.
7 posted on 04/19/2005 5:05:44 PM PDT by kenavi ("Remember, your fathers sacrificed themselves without need of a messianic complex." Ariel Sharon)
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