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Fr Nuehaus in the December First Things has a couple of entries on Ratzinger’s 1988 Erasmus Lectures, part of which were published under the title “On The Way To Christ.”

http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0512/public.html

I found this part interesting (compare it with the prevailing norms of Liberalism), and wanted to share it.

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I have been reading Hannah Arendt’s “Origins of Totalitarianism,” within which is a section on the affinity of the Western elites for the mob and the mob’s values (or anti-values), goals, and methods. By “mob,” Arendt means those who, by choice or circumstance, stand outside civilized society and against the most basic values of civilized … More ...