/lit/ - Literature

Benedict/Ratzinger is an underrated candidate for most influential thinker of the 20th Century, though I doubt many people on /lit/ have read him. I think he will still be read centuries from now.

I am beginning to come around to the Third Position. This is a direct consequence of being an increasingly devout Catholic. I cannot in good conscience support either communism or capitalism, as both are at odds with the teachings of the Church. So I must chart a different path, and the Third Position is literally designed to be that.

>>19195397
I really love Benedict/Ratzinger. Francis is just okay but I adore Benedict. I think he's going to be a saint some day, and also a Doctor of the Church. I think he will have an immense legacy in the decades and centuries to come.

>>19045833
>“And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times. The real crisis has scarcely begun. We will have to count on terrific upheavals. But I am equally certain about what will remain at the end: not the Church of the political cult, which is dead already, but the Church of faith. It may well no longer be the dominant social power to the extent that she was until recently; but it will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as man’s home, where he will find life and hope beyond death.

>>18720025
Spoiler alert: he's going to outlive Francis. Maybe not by much, but Francis will die before Benedict. You heard it here first. Call it a prophecy.

>>18679252
>Anyways, now that people can’t LARP as TradCath anymore, what religion should /lit/ pick up next?

This will just shunt the rest of the LARPers off into Orthodoxy, where more than half of them are already. They won't be missed.

>critiquing the main theories and ideologies of the 20th century from a critical position
>engaging with them fairly while also refuting them

OP, I believe it is time you took the Ratzinger Pill.

They're going after Tolkien because he was Catholic, and our would-be overlords HATE the Catholic Church, because it's never gone along with their schemes and all their attempts to coopt it or subvert it have failed. The Church is currently in the process of ridding itself of their attempts to control it in the 20th Century, and they now realize it's impervious to true subversion and domination, so they're going to try and destroy it, instead.

Step aside, losers

>>18477336
The religious nuts are going to be the ones that save your country, and all of Europe too. Yet again the Catholic Church is going to have to saddle up and save the West. It's only happened, what, four times now? Maybe five? Maybe you fuckers should stop ignoring us when we tell you that certain things are good to do and certain things are bad to do.

Why is he so powerful? He feels so strong as a philosopher, which is somewhat strange because he's a literal Catholic priest writing in the midst of Derrida, Deleuze, and Girard. What's his secret?

Unironically read Ratzinger after the 70s. His stuff from the 80s, the 90s, and so on. It was right around the 70s that Ratzinger went from being a full-blown Vatican 2 guy to realizing that maybe the "Spirit of Vatican 2" had fucked everything up. This of course culminated when he was Pope and issued Summorum Pontificum.

>>18092102
>Every intellectual was by definition atheist, but of course they had to obscure the atheist manifestos in their work to pass the censor, which they can only be interpreted properly now because we successfully infiltrated, made science, and have taken power.

Hello, this is one of the smartest men to live in the 20th Century, but he loves Jesus Christ with all his heart.

Perhaps you should read him some time. Actually, everyone should read him. His name is Joseph Ratzinger, though these days he goes by Benedict.