I've been chatting with Mathew over at Philosophusion about the value of human life and when we can be said to have any rights. Mathew and I are coming at the problem from very different angles but the discussion is civil.
Anyone else care to share their ideas? Here or there, I'm watching the thread as it develops.
I also want to point out a beautiful post that my wife found on the net the other day. It casts a nice light on motherhood and sacrifice.
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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