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SECULARISM IN THE 'NEW' FRANCE




SARKOZY SENDS HIS BEST TO THE POPE
AND WELCOMES THE REBIRTH OF RELIGION



Giuliano Ferrara's Il Foglio today reproduced parts of President Nicolas Sarkozy's address to the diplomatic corps in Paris yesterday. Here is a translation:

I ask you to convey to the Pope, whom we will have the honor of welcoming this year, my most sincere gratitude for having welcomed me so warmly at the Vatican...

I think there are two challenges which contribute to define the structure of international society in the 21st century, perhaps even more profoundly compared to the ideologies of the 20th century. The first is that of climate change...

The second is the conditions for the return of the religious element to a major part of our society. It is a fact , but one that the sectarians do not want to see. And it is was something foreseen by [Andre] Malraux who said "The 21st century will be religious or not at all."

In my speech at St. John Lateran in Rome, I described my concept of secularity in which the place for religion would be defined the most positive terms.

Before the consultative council of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh this week, I echoed the wise proposals of King Abdullah and declared myself for a open and tolerant concept of religion.

But some groups want to impose their fundamentalist, intolerant and hegemonic vision. The most extreme form is that of global terrorist networks like Al Qaeda which dream of a confrontation between Islam and the West in order to better lay down the law to peoples who do not want anything more than just to live their faith in peace.

NICOLAS SATRKOZY
President of France




But Avvenire takes the prize for the most enterprising story so far.

GUESS WHAT THEY'RE TEACHING AT THE SORBONNE!
A COURSE ON RATZINGER AS PHILOSOPHER -
TAUGHT BY A NON-BELIEVER

By Lorenzo Fazzini
Translated from
the 1/19/08 issue of




The Pope could not go to La Sapienza in Rome but his thought is being taught and studied at that most secular of institutions, the Sorbonne, as the University of Paris better known. What a paradox of contemporary culture!

Benedict XVI would be 'ostracized' at a Roman university founded by a Pope by a handful of professors and students who call themselves 'free thinkers'.

While in the country that is emblematic of 1968 and its countercultural upheavals, at the Sorbonne's faculty of philosophy, a young professor who is a non-believer, just dedicated a semester's course work to the philosophical thought of Benedict XVI!

"This Pope is simultaneously revolutionary and very conservative," says Jacob Schmutz, class of 1971, graduate of history and political sciences from the universities of Brussels, Cambridge and Paris. "He pursues a very daring interpretation, and quite symbolic, of the soul, defining it as something which can always be maintained by our existence."

Schmutz is a maitre de conferences [academic aide in charge of arranging lectures] at the Sorbonne's fourth unit, and in his course, he focused on the intellectual production of Joseph Ratzinger as professor in Muenster, Tuebingen and Regensburg in the 1970s and 1970s.

How did it happen that this lay intellectual - translator of Eric Voegelin, right-hand man of the philosopher Rudei Imbach (who is considered one of the major interpreters of Thomas Aquinas today) - managed to focus on Ratzinger?

"Through St. Bonaventure and St. Augustine, since I specialize in medieval philosophy," Schmutz said to the French newspaper La Croix. At the end of a course on philosophy and the Middle Ages in 2006, he had given a lecture on John Paul II and Benedict XVI as students of the Medieval theologians.

The enthusiasm of the students led Schmutz to decide he would dedicate an entire semester - February to June 2007 - to the philosophy of the German Pope, from the ecclesiastical perspective, as well as the interpretation of Catholicism advanced by the author of Introduction to Christianity.

Schmutz belongs to the Pierre Abelard [of Heloise and Abelard fame] Center of the Sorbonne, and is the webmaster of the site Scholasticon dedicated to scholastic philosophy. Another [paradox, since the Center was hosted in the past by the Free University of Brussels, one of the sanctuaries of European anti-clericalism.

Schmutz does not hide his irritation for what he calls 'the ignorance of the media' and their usual 'anti-Ratzinger vulgate'.

"Every time they report about him, it is to bring out the usual commonplaces about the cold intellectual and the opposition between faith and reason. But those are hardly his credentials."

Rather, in Schmutz's opinion, "Ratzinger is a true philospher. That is why he wins over students, even atheists."

And yet, Schmutz's academic interest is far from accommodating: "I find Ratzinger's thought fascinating and 'dangerous'. He believes that the only way to be rational is to be Christian." [That mis-states what Ratzinger says - not that the only way to be rational is to be Christian, but that it is the best way!]

But despite that, he has dedicated study to Ratzinger's thought with passion and intellectual rigor, without ostracism. With great respect for the then Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith who, in 1999, was invited to give a lecture at the Sorbonne, and who chose to speak on "The truth in Christianity", in which Ratzinger stated, "In Christianity, rationality became religion and no longer its adversary."

Avvenire, 19 gennaio 2008

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Someone else already mentioned it in one of the items posted earllier, but it is always good to point out - especially to the willfully ignorant dissenters at La Sapienza that the Academie Francaise - that exclusive citadel of 'the best and the brightest' intellects - elected Joseph Ratzinger in 1992 to fill the seat vacated by the eminent Russian physicist [what an irony for the Sapienza dissenters!] Andrei Sakharov upon his death. And they have the nerve to call an authentic 'academicien' - an Immortal, to use the term for them - obscurantist and retrograde!


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