Liberating Logos: Pope Benedict XVI's September Speeches

"Reading these striking lectures to public officials in leading cities of the world, one is struck by the high level of discourse with which Benedict chooses to address his listeners. He makes it impossible to be superficial, to be ignorant of one's history, of the implications of ideas, and of the centrality of truth as the context of freedom. Each person in each polity has a transcendent origin. Revelation, when directed to us, to our reason, is designed to make us understand that final transcendent destiny to which every person in every polity is ordered. Political kingdoms pass away. But they provide the arena in which the drama of human destiny in its freedom (midst sin and evil as well as grace and reason) is carried out." -- From the Foreword by Fr James V Schall, S.J.