[Pyro7480]

This is a very rich document. And the quote from St. Augustine made my day!

[Pyro7480]

Catholic ping!

[bboop]

Ha, the quote from St. Augustine would make a great tshirt for the next election — and slogan!! I loved it too.

[the invisib1e hand]

Where positivist reason dominates the field to the exclusion of all else – and that is broadly the case in our public mindset – then the classical sources of knowledge for ethics and law are excluded. This is a dramatic situation which affects everyone, and on which a public debate is necessary. Indeed, an essential goal of this address is to issue an urgent invitation to launch one.

A pretty audacious invitation.

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John Fogarty said in an interview, when asked what it's like to be a rock star, "...just be who you are."

[RobbyS]

Neither Protestantism nor Islam puts much stock in reason per se, nor does positivism, the Pope points out. But Catholics also are apt to dismiss the Natural Law tradition. Of course, if we abandon the notion that there is things as human nature, then those in power will feel free to use or even alter the human body as though it were a mere object.