Teachings of Benedict XVI; a summary

Here are my contributions to the section on Teachings in the article on Benedict XVI in Wikipedia . "Friendship with Jesus Christ"...

God yes, Church no?

Excerpts of an interview with Cardinal Ratzinger. I put together here my own translation of the interview found here and a partial translat...

Benedict XVI: Truth, which is a Person, seeks us out

Benedict XVI Truth is stronger than any obstacle and seeks out man. This is the great hope that remains at the end: we alone cannot seek out...

Arrogance of modern reason, which pretends to define the real within its own limits

In Zenit RIMINI, Italy, AUG. 28, 2009 (Zenit.org).- There were long lines of people at the entrance of the exhibition "Vocare -- Maria ...

An Interview with Peter Kreeft on the Dictatorship of Relativism

A conversation with Professor Peter Kreeft with John Mallon, a student of Kreeft . The day before his election as Pope Benedict XVI warned t...

Antithesis between creationism and evolutionism is absurd

By Benedict XVI Currently, I see in Germany, but also in the United States, a somewhat fierce debate raging between so-called "creation...

Cause and cure of moral relativism

By Peter Kreeft What is the cause, and cure of moral relativism? The real source of moral relativism is not any argument at all, and theref...

Without truth...

By Benedict XVI in Caritas in veritate. Benedict used the phrase "without truth" several times. Without truth, charity degenerates...

Thinking About Moral Absolutes

By Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk in the Pilot When Pope Benedict XVI visited the United States in April of 2008, I had the chance to attend the ...

The Roman Catholic Church and relativism

I contributed this to Wikipedia some time ago: The Roman Catholic Church, especially under John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, has identifie...

Public Reason and the Truth of Christianity in the Teachings of Benedict XVI Part I

By Giampaolo Crepaldi , secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the director of the Cardinal Van Thuân International O...

Agnosticism

I posted this in Wikipedia: Religious scholars, whether Jewish, Muslim or Christian, affirm the possibility of knowledge, even of metaphysic...

Ratzinger on Truth

I have just posted this in Wikipedia: Philosopher and theologian Joseph Ratzinger, before his election as Benedict XVI, explored the relatio...

Relativism will end up collapsing like a house of cards

The letter of Fr. Javier Echevarria, the Prelate of Opus Dei is posted in the web. And he does a marvelous job of using texts taken from the...

Benedict XVI now the leading German thinker

Benedict XVI is now considered the leading German thinker, surpassing secularist thinkers such as Gunther Grass and Jurgen Habermas. That...