As a longtime fan of ‘First Things’ magazine, I’d have to say the most puzzling thing about many of their writers is a seeming indifference to the call of Vatican II to address modern man in the vibrant tones of Biblical personalism. They must feel that they won’t be taken seriously by the secular rationalists if they don’t routinely steer all matters of philosophy out into the Desert of Dry Bones…
George Weigel traveled to the heartland on Saturday to receive an honorary degree from Benedictine College in Atchison. But reading his address (posted the same afternoon at ‘National Review’ under a headline trumpeting its “Un-Sebelius” nature), a person starts thinking that the former Kansas governor would have to wake up with the chickens and go a good country mile to out-do the papal biographer in scrubbing all references to our mighty Triune God and his Holy Writ!
Certainly that was not the approach of President Kennedy or Reverend Martin Luther King. Several months ago, Pence gave high praise to a book – Stone of Hope – that explains the importance of the rhetoric chosen by the black civil rights movement. As the Catholic philosopher Blaise Pascal phrased it: "God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers nor of the Wise."
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