{"id":1792511,"date":"2023-01-02T07:03:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T12:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1792511"},"modified":"2023-01-02T07:03:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T12:03:39","slug":"amid-the-ruin-of-modernity-pope-benedict-xvi-championed-a-restoration-of-reason-and-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-the-ruin-of-modernity-pope-benedict-xvi-championed-a-restoration-of-reason-and-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict XVI fought for the restoration of reason and faith in the midst of The Ruin Of Modernity"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famid-the-ruin-of-modernity-pope-benedict-xvi-championed-a-restoration-of-reason-and-faith%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1792511&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Upon hearing the news of Pope Benedict XVI\u2019s death on Saturday morning, I immediately thought of a long road trip I took with my wife 10 years ago, from Alaska to Texas, and a lonely stretch of highway in central Wyoming where, trapped in a car with nothing else to do, I listened to hours and hours of interviews conducted in the \u201990s with then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the man destined to become Pope Benedict XVI.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t know it at the time, but those interviews planted seeds that would take years to bear fruit, which they did in 2018 when my wife and I were received into the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of course, recorded conversations about philosophy and theology aren\u2019t usually what helps one stay awake on a long road trip. But after nearly a week on the road, we were totally burnt out on music, crime noir novels, and just about everything else we\u2019d brought with us. I asked my wife who was trying to sleep in the passenger seat, if she was bothered if I listened the Ratzinger interviews as I drove, since that was all we had. She assured me it wouldn\u2019t stop her from nodding off.<\/p>\n<p>Three hours later, somewhere in the vast expanse of the Wyoming Basin, we were both wide awake, listening with rapt attention to a man unlike any we\u2019d encountered before. (The recordings, I should note, were not of Ratzinger himself, but English language readings of in-depth interviews he\u2019d done with German journalist Peter Seewald in 1996. A six-disc set of the recordings in English was released after Benedict\u2019s election as pope in 2005.) To my embarrassment, I had never paid much attention to Benedict before then, nor had I seriously considered Catholicism or engaged very honestly with the propositions and teachings of the Catholic Church, so what I heard on that long drive struck me in a way I didn\u2019t expect \u2014 and never forgot.<\/p>\n<p>There was a man here who maintained there was no conflict in faith and reason. He was able to convincingly and clearly explain the reasonableness of religious faith, as well faith in Jesus Christ in His crucifixion &#038; resurrection and in the Eucharist. \u201cone, holy, catholic and apostolic Church\u201d He made the Earth his home. Here, too, This was a truly educated man who grasped the entire sweep of Western civilization and, in a kindly and even mirthful way, could level devastating critiques of the Enlightenment, the Reformation, and modernity\u2019s blinkered, anemic understanding of human reason and the role it should play in answering ultimate questions.<\/p>\n<p>Those interviews eventually prompted me to go back and read Benedict\u2019s 2006\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/catholicism\/library\/regensburg-university-address-12-september--pope-benedict-xvi-6183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Regensburg address<\/a>, which\u00a0I remembered at the time only because of the feigned outrage it provoked among an ignorant and malicious corporate press that misread it as an attack on Islam. It wasn\u2019t that, but it\u00a0<em>was<\/em>\u00a0an attack on the modern West\u2019s narrow, \u201cscientistic\u201d View of knowledge and Truth, a loud defense of the inherent rationality and reasonableness of faith and a call<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benedict\u2019s legacy is nothing less than the reassertion of reason\u2019s compatibility with faith in an age when &#8216;science&#8217; has nearly ruined both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":1792514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[12174,5250,6919,6604,12175,12828,9592,5982,12829,6279,12607],"class_list":["post-1792511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-benedict","tag-faith","tag-federalist","tag-fought","tag-midst","tag-modernity","tag-pope","tag-reason","tag-restoration","tag-ruin","tag-xvi"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1792514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}