![]() ![]() Presented with an intervention from Rome on some moral issue today, one rather gets the impression of a rearguard salvo from an army that has already lost its last battle it rallies a few adherents to the banner and salvages momentarily its sense of mission, but neither reclaims lost ground nor arrests the retreat. Put bluntly, Catholic teaching simply does not figure as a living, everyday factor in calculations of what constitutes a good life, morally or materially. What might be called the Catholic anthropology – the notion that man is created in God’s image, endowed with an immortal soul which is his true self, his better part sharing in divine perfection but his earthly being corrupted by original sin, and for whom, with his every act and thought, eternity is weighed in the balance – has little enough purchase now even in countries that are (as census returns confirm Ireland to remain) nominally Catholic. The views of Club speakers are their own and their participation does not constitute or imply endorsement or recommendation by The Commonwealth Club.On Love: Selected Writings, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Ignatius Press, 163 pp, $16.95, ISBN: 978-1621643463Ĭatholic moral teaching has followed Catholic theology into retreat. ![]() ![]() Each year, we bring nearly 500 events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy to our members and the public, both in-person and via extensive online and on-air listenership and viewership. The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. The leading national forum open to all for the impartial discussion of public issues important to the membership, community and nation. ![]()
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