Karol Jozef Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II, 1920-2005
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What guides me…? Just call me “a modern man.” See below.
From the Wall Street Journal…
Mourning and Remembrance; The pope believed that “history” is His-story–the story of God’s quest for man., BY GEORGE WEIGEL
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006512
Especially this: “After the Cold War, when more than a few analysts and politicians were in a state of barely restrained euphoria, imagining a golden age of inevitable progress for the cause of political and economic freedom, John Paul II saw more deeply and clearly. He quickly decoded new threats to what he had called, in that 1968 letter to Father de Lubac, the “inviolable mystery of the human person,” and so he spent much of the 1990s explaining that freedom untethered from moral truth risks self-destruction.For if there is only your truth and my truth and neither one of us recognizes a transcendent moral standard (call it “the truth”) by which to settle our differences, then either you will impose your power on me or I will impose my power on you; Nietszche, great, mad prophet of the 20th century, got at least that right. Freedom uncoupled from truth, John Paul taught, leads to chaos and thence to new forms of tyranny. For, in the face of chaos (or fear), raw power will inexorably replace persuasion, compromise, and agreement as the coin of the political realm. The false humanism of freedom misconstrued as “I did it my way” inevitably leads to freedom’s decay, and then to freedom’s self-cannibalization. This was not the soured warning of an antimodern scold; this was the sage counsel of a man who had given his life to freedom’s cause from 1939 on.”
In addition, from this: A Man for All Seasons; The very modern papacy of John Paul II., by WSJ http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006504
“We don’t expect the secularalists who dominate our intelligentsia ever to understand how a man rooted in orthodox Christianity could ever reconcile himself with modernity, much less establish himself on the vanguard of world history. But many years ago, when the same question was put to France’s Cardinal Lustiger by a reporter, he gave the answer. “You’re confusing a modern man with an American liberal,” the cardinal replied. It was a confusion that Pope John Paul II, may he rest in peace, never made.”God Bless Karol Jozef Wojtyla and God Bless the future Pope.
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Good to see that the Pope’s death serves your purpose: sniping at liberals
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“Sniping?” Else you have some other transcendent moral standard I should be following, then if that is what it is called, then yes I am “sniping.” And I’m darn proud to follow in JP2’s footsteps!
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Fantastic.
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o crazy leftists 😛
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