His much-noted homily on the eve of the conclave, in which he denounced the "dictatorship of relativism," pulled no punches. The secularization of the West had mutated into a new totalitarianism that threatened the very existence of Christian civilization, just as Communism had once threatened to extinguish that civilization in the East. This was a manifesto calculated to deter the faint-hearted.
Monday, February 6, 2006
Papa Ratzi
Daniel Johnson in The New Criterion reviews George Weigel's God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church.
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