It is necessary to distinguish between mystic as intimacy with God, and mystic as mystic phenomena. The first is a delight moment, the second a discernment one.
The lectio of Ratisbona has really been magistralis: it has produced two missionary deaths at the hands of Islamists.
From the “integral” humanism of Maritain to “integral” rationalism of Ratzinger. But the sense and the aim of this latest cultural process is political: to simply annex reason, slandering men who are outside the church as unreasonable, because church is the only Ratio.
Without the pleasure and the taste of others’ liberty there is no Christianity.
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