Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Cardinal Ratzinger's Challenge (washingtonpost.com)
Cardinal Ratzinger's preconclave address:
"We are moving," he declared, toward "a dictatorship of relativism . . . that recognizes nothing definite and leaves only one's own ego and one's own desires as the final measure."
From one emerged a wondrous creed, an existentially complete inspiration of symmetry and piety. Throughout this rarified land, the temples and holy places began to quake. All the holy objects and beatified icons wept tears of blood as this sanctified verse was carried on the ethereal wind. In the moment agape, an eternity passed as a cloud before the sun.
Bathed in the awe, washed by the rain of epiphany, the other man meditated. Looking to the sky, he spoke these words:
"Yes, this is true but there are many other things just as true." And God cried. ¶ 4/19/2005 08:22:00 PM
"We are moving," he declared, toward "a dictatorship of relativism . . . that recognizes nothing definite and leaves only one's own ego and one's own desires as the final measure."
In a far off land, one of those of extreme clime that seems to lead to contemplation of the sublime, there sat two men. As it was, they were wise men and their discussion of the weather soon led to the hallowed.
From one emerged a wondrous creed, an existentially complete inspiration of symmetry and piety. Throughout this rarified land, the temples and holy places began to quake. All the holy objects and beatified icons wept tears of blood as this sanctified verse was carried on the ethereal wind. In the moment agape, an eternity passed as a cloud before the sun.
Bathed in the awe, washed by the rain of epiphany, the other man meditated. Looking to the sky, he spoke these words:
"Yes, this is true but there are many other things just as true." And God cried. ¶ 4/19/2005 08:22:00 PM
