August 2020

In considering the question of the validity of faith for modern man, we need to understand modernity’s approach to faith in the context of modernity’s broader approach to reality. For modernity, faith is considered a type of knowledge that fails to meet the fundamental criterion that validates all knowing: that which we can perceive with our senses. But to arrive at this point, Joseph Ratzinger explains, modernity has gone through two profound spiritual and cultural stages.  

It should be self-evident that Christ is the center of Christian living. After all, there is no salvation in any one else (Acts 4:12), and at the heart of the Gospel is the clarion call to follow Jesus, to become His disciples (Luke 9:23).  

Pope John Paul II said, “Down through the centuries and generations it has been seen that in suffering there is concealed a particular power that draws a person interiorly close to Christ, a special grace.”