In one important way, the death of Pope Benedict last week was the death of reason in an increasingly secular world; even perhaps the death of reason in Christianity. Strangely, Benedict’s reason was not the result of his great faith. Rather, his reason was the result of his devotion to scholarship, a scholarship that traversed the writings of the great minds from the time of Socrates to the present.
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