Pope Benedict XVI – Crisis in the world.

Pope Benedict XVI enunciated that we are faced with a crisis of great proportions, because it is not merely a social or economic crisis but a spiritual one. Of course, the Catholic Church has a catholic solution to all problems but will man take up that solution or invent his own, once more.

We have a crisis of faith wherein the very existence of God is being denied, not by any logical reasoning but a way of life that excludes everything divine from the human picture of the world. The thought of God is an obstacle to man’s desire for instant pleasures. It has to go.

The crisis is world wide, including in known Catholic nations. It had been existing for many centuries but the Catholic intelligentsia noticed it only at the beginning of the first world war. The Jesuit spiritual writer Coleridge, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Hilaire Beloc noticed it and wrote about it. They described it as a return to paganism. Pope Benedict described it as the dictatorship of relativism.