Freedom Through the Acknowledgment of Being Created

As a follow-up to my post this morning about the effect of secularism on the Right and the Left, John Waters’s review of Peter Seewald’s book of interviews with Pope Benedict XVI:

There is, [Benedict] said in that dazzling “bunker” speech to the Bundestag in September 2011, an “ecology of man.” Man “is not merely self-­creating freedom”; he is intellect and will, but also nature, “and his will is rightly ordered if he respects his nature, listens to it and accepts himself for who he is, as one who did not create himself. In this way, and in no other, is true human freedom fulfilled.”

That speech amounted to a summary of his lifetime’s public project: to warn of the eclipsing of mystery in modern culture, of the decline into an absolutist relativism and the positivist codes and delusions which lock us into a bunker of error—and then the antidote: throwing open the windows so that God might be recognized anew by his people. “The windows must be flung open again, we must see the wide world, the sky and the earth once more.”

Real freedom comes when we acknowledge reality and accept our role in it, whatever our material condition.

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