Europe's Crisis of Culture

[Original posted 2:08 AM, Thursday, July 28]
[First update posted 7:33 AM, Friday, July 29]

Here is this weekend's reading assignment...

Zenit has a translation of the lecture given by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the convent of Saint Scholastica in Subiaco, Italy, the day before Pope John Paul the Great died. This lecture took place April 1, when he received the St. Benedict Award for the promotion of life and the family in Europe.

Part 1: Excludes God From the Public Conscience
Part 2: A Confused Ideology of Freedom Leads to Dogmatism
Part 3: Meaning and Limits of the Present Rationalist Culture
added Part 4: The Religion According to Reason