So true~~subjective truth as opposed to the "truth" that serves the common good!! Selflessness!! Today more than ever, we need to be re- minded of this bond between faith and truth, given the crisis of truth in our age. In contemporary culture, we often tend to consider the only real truth to be that of technology: truth is what we succeed in building and measuring by our sci-entific know-how, truth is what works and what makes life easier and more comfortable. Nowadays this appears as the only truth that is cer- tain, the only truth that can be shared, the only truth that can serve as a basis for discussion or for common undertakings. Yet at the other end of the scale we are willing to allow for subjective truths of the individual, which consist in fidelity to his or her deepest convictions, yet these are truths valid only for that individual and not capable of being proposed to others in an effort to serve the common good. But Truth itself, the truth which would comprehensively explain our life as individuals and in society, is regarded with suspicion. -- Pope Francis (lumen fidei 25 (first part))
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:00:19 +0000
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