IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - WED. FEB. 27/19

PREFACE:

"This week the U.S. Senate failed to pass the "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act" )S. 311). This bill would have stopped the brutal killing of infants born alive after surviving an abortion. Despite knowing the horrific reality of infanticide, 44 senators voted against this life-protecting bill..." "This isn't a partisan issue, it is a matter of basic human rights." It is contrary to the Constitution.

Now let's listen to the wisdom of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's book, "Co-Workers of the Truth" - Meditations For the Every Day of the Year - Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1990 - February 27th meditation.

" Let us ask the question Pilate asked: What is truth? - but not as Pilate asked it. Hermann Dietzfelbinger has pointed out that what is most depressing about Pilate's question is the fact that it is really not a question, but an answer. To him who claims to be Truth, Pilate says in in effect:

"Let's be done with all this talk. After all, what is truth? We'll do better to keep to concrete issues." This is the form in which Pilate's question is most frequently asked today. But now it must be addressed in earnest.

"How does it happen that to grow in truth means to grow in goodness; that truth is not just good; it is truth par excellence? How does it happen that it has value in itself and has no need to justify itself by its ends? That can be the case only if the value of truth resides in itself, if it exists in itself and has more being than all others; if it is itself the foundation on which I stand.

"If we ponder carefully the nature  of truth, we end by pondering the concept of God. In the long run, it is impossible to comprehend the nature and value of truth, on which depends in truth, the value of mankind and the world, unless we learn to see therein the nature and value of the living God.

"That is why respect for truth is ultimately inseparable for what we call worship. Truth and cult are inextricably united - one cannot exist without the other, however often history may have separated them.

"The freedom for truth and the freedom of truth ultimately cannot exist without recognition and reverence for the divine. Freedom from utaltitarianism can be grounded and can endure only when there is something over and above that which derives from possession and property of mankind, when there is the higher ownership and inalienable claim of the Godhead.

"Mankind's growing in truth is, at the same time, a part of the world's growing in truth; and when human beings grow in truth, and when human beings grow in truth, they grow in goodness, and when they do, the world grows in goodness wherever they are."

George H. Kubeck