Rediscovering Our Roots
In a culture where every contour of the public life assists in communicating the message of Jesus Christ, the first citizen of the realm will be the Church, she who is both Bride and Body of Christ, the beloved one whom God Himself has chosen and designated to be Mother of all who have been redeemed in Christ. Followed by the Church is the family which, by hallowed and repeated usage, forms the domestic Church, whose actions are meant to model the life of the Holy Family. And, finally, there is the individual.
But this is not the isolated individual, uprooted from the sources that nourish and give life. If it is to be a culture of life, one whose lineaments have been shaped by the event of Jesus Christ, then it will not impede the actions of the true self, averse to all that is best for it; but only the atomized self, the self-determined self, living apart from others in a state of enmity and opposition to anything that tries to thwart its appetites and desires.
Here, then, are the two contrasting styles which currently contend for mastery in the public life, each refusing to settle for anything less than a complete sweep of the culture, however fiercely at variance their views of ultimate reality may be. On the one hand, there is the solipsist, the one who lives for himself alone, whose appetite for pleasure must not be trifled with by appeals to altruism or the common good. While, on the other hand, there is the selfless man, who lives entirely for God and neighbor and whose highest civic ambition is to assist in the creation of a genuinely Christian culture. Now, to be sure, the adherents of each remain rooted in a finite world, anchored t
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