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Originally Posted by Marulus
Cardinal Jospeh Ratzinger, Avvenire, 14.5.2004:
What are the inside values of this "West", as opposed to outside values to which this "West" is opening itself?
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Surely he must mean the traditional west, the Roman Catholic sphere, possibly also including its offshoots of Protestantism? I don't think he means the neoconnish "west".
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Originally Posted by Marulus
The ethnic decline is obvious, the future Pope is very right about pointing it out. But the phrase: Europe, in the same hour of its maximum success, seems a bit contradictory to the second part of the quotation. Can that what is Europe currently going through be considered as "success"? Hardly.
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He must mean the period before the first world war? Whether it can be considered maximum success is still questionable, especially I'm thinking about the dubitably successful colonialism.
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While the rest of mankind seeks for the sake of finding and of knowing, the Westerner of today seeks for the sake of seeking; the Gospel saying, 'Seek and ye shall find,' is a dead letter for him, in the full force of this phrase, since he calls 'death' anything and everything that constitutes a definite finality, just as he gives the name 'life' to what is no more than fruitless agitation.
René Guénon, East and West