Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

It Is The Question That Is Also Asked By Modern Political Theory: Can Politics Accept Truth As A Structural Category? Or Must Truth, As Something Unattainable, Be Relegated To The Subjective Sphere, Its Place Taken By An Attempt To Build Peace And Justice Using Whatever Instruments Are Available To Power? By Relying On Truth, Does Not Politics, In View Of The Impossibility Of Attaining Consensus On Truth, Make Itself A Tool Of Particular Traditions That In Reality Are Merely Forms Of Holding On To Power?
And Yet, On The Other Hand, What Happens When Truth Counts For Nothing? What Kind Of Justice Is Then Possible? Must There Not Be Common Criteria That Guarantee Real Justice For All - Criteria That Are Independent Of The Arbitrariness Of Changing Opinions And Powerful Lobbies? Is It Not True That The Great Dictatorships Were Fed By The Power Of The Ideological Lie And That Only Truth Was Capable Of Bringing Freedom?

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