# 2 FORMING CONSCIENCES FOR FAITHFUL AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP # 1 & 2

# 2 - FORMING CONSCIENCES FOR FAITHFUL AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP # 1 & 2

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONE.BLOGSPOT.COM - WED. NOV. 20/19

1.) IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH

Without doubt, this book by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) "Co-Workers Of The Truth" - Meditations For Every Day of the Year, Ignatius Press, 1992, has been a strong influence on me. Imagine 365 daily readings repeated 15 times. Will share with you the meditation for Nov. 17.

"The courage to recognize truth and the joy we take in it are fundamental marks of the Christian Faith. It is through them that we come to understand once more the missionary mandate of the Church.

It is only through them that we again receive law and meaning: human beings need truth. The world needs truth. Without it our lives remain untrue and that means unredeemed. The truth that is bestowed on us does not come from ourselves.

We cannot take any credit for it, but neither are we allowed to conceal it out of a false humility. We deprive the world as it were of the most important raw materials that are essential to its life when we timidly bury truth like the hireling in the Gospel who buried his talent instead of turning it to profit.

Admittedly all human words are limited and imperfect; so, too, the human words by which we confess the faith are always insufficient. Hence it will always be possible to intensify and enrich them. They are open to all the truth of the world.

But his limitation of human language and the insufficiency of our speech must not cause us to lapse into relativism that rejects truth. The true God has manifested himself to us in Jesus Christ, and has shown us the truth: God wills the salvation of all; he wants us to become ministers by bringing the light of truth into the world.

We must reawaken this great mandate in ourselves; it must fill us with such joy that, as messengers of truth, we can be co-workers for the redemption of the world.  From: Roman Catholic homilies, Sep./83

2.) THE TREASON OF THE ELITES BY RICHARD LOWRY, NATIONAL REVIEW, NOV. 8, 2019

SELECTED EXCERPTS:

"Poets, novelists, lexicographers, and historians have, over the centuries, been central to excavating and delineating the identities of nations, toward the goal of establishing proud, self-governing peoples. In the United States, this class has turned its back on a nation-buttressing role and instead a hostility to the American nation as such to its cultural supports, its traditions, and its history.

"The clerisy has often been abetted in this project by leaders of the country, including government mandarins who were robustly nationalist until the latter half of the 20th century. "Then in the 1960s and 1970s," the late social scientist Samuel Huntington wrote, "they began to promote measures conscientiously designed to weaken America's cultural and creedal identity and to racial, ethnic, cultural and creedal sub-national identities. These efforts by a nation's leaders to deconstruct the nation they governed were, quite possibly, without precedent in human history." We live in their ongoing anti-national experiment....

"What's behind all cosmopolitanism is what the British writer Paul Gilroy has called "the principled and methodical cultivation of a degree of estrangement from one's own culture and history. "As a result, cosmopolitanism has always been open to the charge that - whatever its broad-mindedness or idealism - it cultivate a contempt for what's near, immediate, and tangible, in favor of what's far away...

George H. Kubeck

P.S. The truth isn't popular. Relativism is the order of the day. There are no standards of behavior. You can change and subvert traditional America in one's life time.