George Weigel in the LA Times lucidly analyzes the thrust of Pope Benedict’s speech last week. Worth a full read, but here’s one of the later paragraphs:

The pope’s third point — which has been almost entirely ignored — was directed to the West. If the West’s high culture keeps playing in the sandbox of postmodern irrationalism — in which there is “your truth” and “my truth” but nothing such as “the truth” — the West will be unable to defend itself. Why? Because the West won’t be able to give reasons why its commitments to civility, tolerance, human rights and the rule of law are worth defending. A Western world stripped of convictions about the truths that make Western civilization possible cannot make a useful contribution to a genuine dialogue of civilizations, for any such dialogue must be based on a shared understanding that human beings can, however imperfectly, come to know the truth of things.

Reminds me of how dear old Bob put it in 1985’s Biograph interview, “That lie about everybody having their own truth inside of them has done a lot of damage and made people crazy.” Indeed.

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