I really didn't know my views about many things were those of Pope John until I read this editorial in today's WSJ. Perhaps I am more Catholic than I thought. He addressed a society adrift in fuzzy morals and ethics. He viewed the carnage of the 20th century thusly:

Western humanism had gone off the rails, collapsing into forms of self-absorption, and then self-doubt, so severe that men and women had begun to wonder whether there was any truth at all to be found in the world, or in themselves.

Which is what many post Enlightenment philosophers feared.

The false humanism of freedom misconstrued as "I did it my way" inevitably leads to freedom's decay, and then to freedom's self-cannibalization.

I won't post any more today. I hope you all read the piece.