The Pope Who Schooled the Politicians David G. Bonagura, Jr.

With belief in God comes acceptance of the fact that human beings cannot will whatever they want into reality or into law. Man too has a nature that he must respect and that he cannot manipulate at will. Man is not merely self-creating freedom. Man does not create himself. He is intellect and will, but he is also nature, and his will is rightly ordered if he respects his nature, listens to it and accepts himself for who he is, as one who did not create himself. In this way, and in no other, is true human freedom fulfilled.

Posterity tends to regard political visionaries Tocqueville, Lincoln, Churchill more highly than political functionaries, regardless of how much worldly success the latter gain. Without a single political victory to his credit, posterity will judge Benedict the political victor. The symptoms of our failed contemporary politics spring from a single illness, one that Benedict diagnosed clearly: the rejection of a natural order whose purpose reflects the loving God who created this order for humans to flourish.

via lawliberty.org

Truedat.