Well known for his important scholarly contributions to dogmatic theology and biblical commentary Joseph Ratzinger has also written penetrating observations of our times This book includes some of his keen insights about 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 were the three foundation stones upon which Western civilization was built he wrote Their invaluable contributions 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 which traces the moral disorder that preys upon the young to the collapse of faith both inside and outside the Church The witness of Christian lives nobly lived is the beginning of reconversion or in many cases conversion of the West and that return to the truths taught by the God of the Bible is essential if the great Western civilizational project is not to crumble because of its current postmodern incoherence Joseph Ratzinger understood that danger long before many others It would be well to attend to his prescription George Weigel Distinguished Senior Fellow Ethics and Public Policy Center from the Foreword

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