Posted on 09/29/2022 1:49:33 PM PDT by Gillibrand1
What is truth? How can it be found and how does freedom relate to truth? Is there one truth and several? These questions are essential for human beings, because man's deepest longing is directed towards the knowledge of truth, explains Cardinal Kurt Cardinal Koch, here in conversation with the Tagespost.
Eminence, dear Cardinal, this symposium of the Ratzinger Circle is above all about truth. This has always been a special concern of the theologian, Joseph Ratzinger and of Pope Benedict. His whole theology seems to be like a red thread the search for the real truth, and his work was at the same time always the well-founded confession of truth. His episcopal motto is: Cooperatores veritatis - we are co-workers of the truth. But is this still relevant today, in times when relativism, against which Ratzinger warned again and again, even as the successor of Peter, has long since manifested its dictatorship?
This dictatorship is indeed widespread even today. For it is one of the basic assumptions of the zeitgeist that claims to truth are immediately equated with indoctrination and intolerance, with fundamentalism and fanaticism.
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