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Entry: A New Humanism in Europe Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_new_humanism_in_europe#6244 Post contents: I see that Mr. Cundiff, rather than address the specific points I raise (and also that were made by Pius XI, who, remember issued Mit Brennender Sorge), now would rely on sweeping (and totally unjust, at least from a Catholic point of view) statements, to wit, "that those...who deny economic prosperity would merit prison, not political power, in this world-- and damnation in the next." [Frankly, I don't know of any national leader, including the Soviets, who actually desires to deny their peoples economic prosperity...but then maybe Mr. Cundiff knows a few?] I can only assume that Mr.Cundiff was somewhat fatigued when he authored this statement. Still, it presents a number of fairly interesting questions: first, there is his conjunction of "thugs, murderers, gangsters, and fist-in-the-face slave-masters" with those "who would deny economic prosperity." Now that is like placing in the same prison those who commit a speeding offense, with class A Capital offenders. I don't think the conjunction works very well. Secondly, just who is he trying to inveigle in this tangled web? Who are these "thugs," these "murderers," and..."those who would deny economic prosperity"? I would assume from earlier exchanges that Mr. Cundiff is attempting, alas! once again, to tar and feather noble Catholic traditionalists like Engelbert Dollfuss, perhaps Antonio Salazar, and others, although he only leaves it for the reader to infer. Yet, this is not a very good argument, not very transparent, and fails utterly to answer any of the commentary offered earlier. So, one is left with the result that Mr. Cundiff, if he does not wish to discuss a point in detail, simply begs off, and casts forth magisterially a solemn curse and damnation on those whom he (1) either does not like, or (2) refuses to understand. Neither course is upright; neither course is helpful. Too bad, too bad... Sent at: 2008 11 22