Summary
In concentrating on the catastrophic consequences of certain materialist philosophies and ideologies, especially Marxism, he pays little attention to the positive achievements of the humanistic Enlightenment traditions that have deepened our understanding of the natural world and contributed to efforts to alleviate inequality and suffering. In a recent, moving reflection on the Iraq war (To Be in a Time of War, City Lights), for example, Lebanese-born poet Etel Adnan describes her anguish at seeing "pictures of Iraqi corpses lying on their land."
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The Gift of Hope
Pope Benedict XVI's new encyclical, Spe salvi (In Hope We Are Saved), is a thirteen'thousand'word meditation that offers new insight and inspiration on every reading. It is a work imbued with the virtue it examines.
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