Benedict’s Coming Revolution - In Charity and in Truth (Solzhenitsyn once observed that “falsehood always brings violence in its wake)

Benedict’s Coming Revolution 

Over State-Funded Catholic Charity

by Christopher Manion

Pope Gregory XIV once said that “a lifetime is not enough” to see all of Rome. Similarly, the contributions of Pope Benedict XVI will last far beyond our lifetimes—yet their most lasting impact might be barely visible today. 

Take his “Regensburg Lecture,” delivered in 2006. The media huffed that the address offended Muslims, and wrote off the rest. It should not be surprising that their postmodern mentality chose to ignore the lecture’s fundamental theme: that rationality is required of all men—not just of Muslims but also of those who are deconstructing the dessicated remains of Western Civilization from within. 

In Benedict’s long view, whatever becomes of the West, Islam and Christianity are going to be around for a long time, and the only possible conversation between them will have to be a rational one. When that time comes—perhaps in the far future—both Islam and what Pope Benedict has called the Dictatorship of Relativism that dominates the West will have to confront that challenge with equal intellectual vigor—and honesty.
Solzhenitsyn once observed that “falsehood always brings violence in its wake.

” Catholics recognize the pope as the Vicar of Christ on Earth, and Christ as the Prince of Peace, as well as “the way, the truth, and the life.”

For Catholics, truth and peace are intimately connected; hence, in a world where falsehood thrives, so too does violence. 

And it’s not just Marxists who believe in endless war as the engine of progress: Benedict recognized that advocates of violence come in all colors and time zones, and he never bought into the slogans of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth—especially “War is Peace.” 

He knew the difference.

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