Wisdom from Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI)

 
 
 

Faith does not create a better world, but it awakens and strengthens those ethical forces that construct embankments and bulwarks against the tide of evil. Faith awakens the freedom to do good and fortifies it against the temptation to use freedom in a distorted way to choose evil.

—Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI)

from his book, Western Culture Today and Tomorrow

 

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TIMELY OBSERVATION

Formerly titled Europe Today and Tomorrow, this book includes some of Joseph Ratzinger’s keen insights about the social and political challenges confronting modern Western societies. Writing most of these chapters just before his election as pope, Ratzinger sought to remind Europeans, who at the time were crafting a new constitution, that the civilizational project we call “the West” is a cultural achievement with a history.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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