Wisdom from Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)

 
 
 

For a culture and a nation to cut themselves off from the great ethical and religious forces of their own history is for them to commit suicide. To cultivate the essential moral judgments, to preserve and to protect them as a common good without imposing them coercively seems to me to be a condition for the continuance of freedom as opposed to all sorts of nihilism and their totalitarian consequences.

—Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)

from his book, Faith and Politics

 

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Pope Francis, in his foreword, states that one of the major themes in the thought of Joseph Ratzinger is the relationship between faith and politics. Ratzinger explored various aspects of this subject in books, speeches, and homilies throughout his career. This is the only book that collates all of his most significant works on political themes inside one volume.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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