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The French political theorist Pierre Manent says that the church needs to recover its emphasis on Jesus Christ and restore its other traditional teachings. Only then will the church become culturally relevant and influential again. Meanwhile, politics needs to be pragmatic, not motivated by the religion of humanism.
On August 26, Pope Francis received participants in a conference organized by the International Catholic Legislators Network.
The Pope spoke about the significance of the synod nearly one month ahead of the first global assembly, taking place at the Vatican Oct. 4-28.
In the last article in this series on Christmas, I wrote about some longstanding philosophical dilemmas and how Christianity, if true, might resolve them.