If a viral cocktail of political
correctness, socialist dysfunction, and moral relativism is now besetting the
West, then reason is as useless against it as Veritatis splendor [The
Splendor of the Truth, an encyclical by Pope
John Paul II expressing the Catholic
Church’s role in moral teaching] was against the devil. The meme can
continue to spread regardless of damage until it pulls the host down to its
energy level. Is there a way out? The Roman Empire never solved the problem of
how to dominate a malignant meme, but humanity found a way of outlasting it. "Western
Christianity survived by clinging to places like Skellig Michael, a pinnacle of
rock [seven] miles from the Irish coast, rising seven hundred feet out of the
sea." The mission of the monks was to remember God -- to remember the
truth -- until the mysterious workings of the system brought them forth again…
The rest of his column is here.
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