/lit/ - Literature

>>18415359
OP here, I am Buddhist by the way if that matters.

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.

>>18415359
Omg no more guenon pls

>>18415368
What a fag

>>18415370
So start with his Jesus of Nazareth book?

Read Rene Girard, not Guenon, if you want recent Christian philosophers. Or like the other guy said, read the popes

>>18415385
Not a bad idea at all. They're great books. Probably the best Catholic books for ordinary people written in the last 50 years. They basically lay out how Jesus Christ is seen by the Catholic Church, and so they are really good if you want a basic intro to what it means to be Catholic. Since, of course, if you want to be any sort of Christian, Jesus has got to be at the center of everything.

>>18415391
You don't read

>>18415396
Ok based, thanks anon, I’ll do my Ratzinger studies

>>18415359
read fr. romano guardini, especially his book on modern world crisis titled "end of the modern world". i find it better than guenon's books on modernity

None of you read. You watch youtube and hide in discord servers which protect your weak ideologies and cope.

>>18415568
Fun fact: Guardini was almost certainly a major influence on Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si. Numerous commentators have made note of how much Laudato Si seems to be flavored by Guardini, whom Francis studied decades ago while in Germany.

Laudato Si is itself actually a really great anti-Modernity work. It's the best thing Francis has ever written and I think it towers over the rest of his output.

>>18415583
You are projecting faggot

>>18415594
You are scared. You cannot debate outside your comfort zone. You replied to a general post because you are self conscious.

>>18415588
i was aware pope praised guardini before but i did not read laudato si nor expected it to be 'guardinian'. ratzinger also deeply admires guardini

>>18415568
>>18415599
You have no arguments. Go shove a dilator up your necrocunt you fucking faggot.

>>18415617
You do not read was my argument you retarded frog

>>18415615
It got unfairly pigeon-holed as "the climate change encycical," but there's so much more to it than that. I'd even say that climate change is only a really small part of the overall encycical. Francis only brings climate change up to make a larger point about how Modernity has degraded the world.

>>18415583
True, but one day i’ll start reading for real... I swear!