My job has recently caused me to think and write about Wyoming Catholic College’s “Outdoor Leadership Program”. (I would provide a link, but my job includes re-writing all the [currently inadequate] web content, and the new stuff is not up yet.) The basic assertion is that, these days at least, it is important for a liberally educated Catholic to spend a lot of time outdoors.
So I was tickled to find this in Ratzinger’s Principles of Catholic Theology:
Faith has the added task–in a time when creation has been forgotten, in which we live, to a large extent, in a secondary world of the self-made–of putting man once again in the way of creation in order to let him see it again and thus learn to know himself. (Page 345)
We should give him a WCC T-Shirt or something. That’s spectacular.
July 28, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Awesome! I wonder if he has read Restoration of Christian Culture. I should have realized it before, but that sounds like the title of a book Benedict might have written himself! It also gets me thinking that there are several other points on which he is very similar to John Senior…
October 3, 2010 at 5:26 pm
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