TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benedictus PP.
AU  - Weigel,George
TI  - Western culture today and tomorrow: addressing the fundamental issues 
SN  - 9781621643166
AV  - D1055 .B3313 2019
U1  - 940.5 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - San Francisco
PB  - Ignatius Press
KW  - Unione Europea
KW  - Aspetti religiosi
KW  - sbaa
KW  - Cultura
KW  - Aspetti cristiani
KW  - Europa
KW  - Secolo 20
KW  - Civilizzazione
N1  - "Collection of speeches, sermons and essays delivered elsewhere between 2000 and 2019"; Include bibliografia
N2  - Well known for his important scholarly contributions to dogmatic theology and biblical studies, Joseph Ratzinger has also written penetrating observations of our times. This book includes some of his keen insights into the social and political challenges confronting modern Western societies. Writing most of these chapters just before his election as pope, Ratzinger sought to remind Europeans, who at the time were crafting a new constitution, that the civilizational project we call "the West" is a cultural achievement with a history. Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome, he reminds us, were the three foundation stones upon which Western civilization was built. The invaluable contributions of these three still form the basis for the Western understanding of human dignity and human rights, which spread from Europe to the United States and beyond. This book also includes, as an epilogue, a new essay by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on clerical sex abuse, tracing the moral disorder that preys upon the young to the collapse of faith both inside and outsdie the Church
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