{"id":5635,"date":"2006-09-22T01:04:59","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T01:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/con-il-papa.html"},"modified":"2006-09-22T01:04:59","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T01:04:59","slug":"con-il-papa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/con-il-papa.html","title":{"rendered":"“Con il Papa”"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Italian site in support of the Pope.<\/a><\/p>\n

More at PRF, including some new banners:<\/a><\/p>\n

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A couple of days old, but still…a Zenit article on the Italian bisops’ conference statements<\/a><\/p>\n

Cardinal Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, also in Zenit, a translation of an article in the Sept. 25 edition of L’Osservatore Romano<\/span>:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Many of the statements made by the Pope in the course of his journey to Bavaria, from the 9th to the 14th of September, concerned truth, starting from a question that is often present in the speeches and homilies of the Pontiff: Can Christianity still be considered reasonable in the eyes of today’s man? We believe in God, "is it reasonable?" he asked himself during the homily at Islinger Feld on the morning of September 12. In fact, the West seems to suffer from a "hardness of hearing" and what is said about God "strikes us as pre-scientific, no longer suited to our age," he said on Sunday, September 10, during the holy Mass at the outdoor site of the Neue Messe in Munich. <\/p>\n

According to Benedict XVI, the clarification of the relationship between Christianity and truth, and therefore between Christianity and reason, is important first of all for the re-evangelization of the Western world and is also equally important for establishing a relationship between all religions based on dialogue and tolerance. These aspects must be addressed separately, even though they are connected. <\/p>\n

Christianity is the faith in Creative Reason, not Unreason. At Islinger Feld, the Pope asked himself — "What came first?" — and provided the two possible answers: "Creative Reason, the Creator Spirit who makes all things and gives them growth, or Unreason, which, lacking any meaning, yet somehow brings forth a mathematically ordered cosmos, as well as man and his reason." However, this second answer is illogical because then our reason would be only a casual product of evolution, therefore the product of an irrational process. Christian faith, concludes the Pope, believes "that at the beginning of everything is the eternal Word, with Reason and not Unreason." <\/p>\n

The same concept is reiterated in the "Lectio magistralis" at the University of Regensburg: "Not to act in accordance with reason is contrary to God’s nature." <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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