It has ever been a cause of deep and heartfelt sorrow to honest folk, and above all to good loyal sons of the Church, that the judgements of mankind in the sphere of religion and morals should be so variable, and so apt to stray from the truth...
False evolutionary notions, with their denial of all that is absolute or fixed or abiding of human experience, have paved the way for a new philosophy of error. Idealism, immanentism, pragmatism, have now a rival in what is called 'existentialism'. Its method, as the name implies, is to leave the unchanging essences of things out of sight, and concentrate all its intention on particular existences.
There is, too, a false use of the historical method, which confines its observations to the actual happenings of human life, and in doing so contrives to undermine all absolute truth, all absolute laws, whether it is dealing with the problems of philosophy or with the doctrines of the Christian religion.
-Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis (1950)
Sent from my BlackBerry®
March 23, 2011
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
