Indeed, Your Excellency, this is the heart we must have. Compare this to the heart of the Lord we see in the Gospels, in his response to the victims of sin and suffering. Secularism is an inferior culture, small of heart, which defines suffering down, so that victims are not acknowledged as victims but as justified collateral damage. Eberstadt is quite explicit that this truth has gone unsaid for too long. We also need to remember that Christ was a healer of the blind the disabled, the sick, and the possessed. Among his final words of wisdom, I found this paragraph particularly heartening:Īs both of Eberstadt's Adam and Eve books affirm, secular modernity causes multiple forms of suffering that we can often ameliorate when we understand their true origins. Mary mentioned that Cardinal Pell's foreword is perhaps the last words to be published by the white-martyred prelate. His unexpected death has left his friends and flock reeling, particularly so closely upon the heals of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's death December 31. Mary Eberstadt recently gave me a copy of her Adam and Eve: After the Pill, Revisited, a follow up to her first book on the topic. The foreword was written by Cardinal George Pell, who passed away on January 10.
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