The Quadrant has a review of The Benedict Option written by His Eminence George, Cardinal Pell, Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy. I'm sharing it for a number of reasons. For one, I am fascinated by Dreher's idea. And two, His Eminence's comparisons the United States and Her Majesty's Commonwealth of Australia are fascinating, but most of all because of this introduction. I love the description of Dreher's solution as 'bringing knives to a gunfight'!
When God is reduced to The Cosmic Therapist and we combat the culture wars' defeat of Christian conservatives with a middle-class moralism that prescribes being happy with oneself and nice to others, as Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option argues, we are bringing knives to a gunfight
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