Nay, beware those who favor faith to reason, feeling to thinking--for they are abdicating their minds.

#2, faith is not a matter of feeling. And this is something you´ll want to talk over with Pope Benedict XVI, as erious critic of the dangers of both faith without reason which ends in supestitution, and reason without faith, with ends in nihilism.

A few lines from his 2005 talk on the Crisis of Culture:


"From the beginning, Christianity has understood itself as the religion of the Logos, as the religion according to reason...It has always defined human beings, all human beings without distinction, as creatures and images of God, proclaiming for them the same dignity.

"...Today, this should be precisely our [Christianity´s] philosophical strength, in so far as the problem is whether the world comes from the irrational, and reason is not other than a ´sub-product,´ on occasion even harmful of its development—or whether the world comes from reason, and is, as a consequence, its criterion and goal...

"In the so necessary dialogue between secularists and Catholics, we Christians must be very careful to remain faithful to this fundamental commitment: to live a faith that comes from the Logos, from creative reason, and that, because of this, is also open to all that is truly rational."

Can I hear an Amen?

Amen. And bless you, #3. Every attempt at enlightenment for those who see nothing beyond the physical is admirable indeed.

Benedict has now left the Vatican, on his way to Castel Gandolfo. I pray for him, and I pray for the Cardinals to do right by God.

But I feel vulnerable right now.....

Any article that makes use of a meaningful G K Chesterton quote gets my attention.

Good article.