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Pope Benedict XVI, Regensburg, and Islam | Autumn 2006 • Pope Benedict XVI's Regensburg lecture | Vatican Website • Is Dialogue with Islam Possible? Some Reflections on Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the University of Regensburg | Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J. Both before and since his elevation to the papacy, Benedict has taken a consistent approach to controversial issues: he locates the assumptions and fundamental principles underlying the controversy, analyzes their "inner" structure or dynamism, and lays out the consequences of the principles. Continue reading... • The Regensburg Lecture: Thinking Rightly About God and Man | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. On September 12, on his visit to his native Bavaria, Benedict XVI gave a formal academic lecture at the University at which he formerly was a professor. It is a brilliant, stunning lecture, and it is a lecture, not a papal pronouncement. It brings into focus just why there is a papacy and why Catholicism is an intellectual religion. Indeed, it is a lecture on why reason is reason and what this means. The scope of this lecture is simply breathtaking, but also intelligible to the ordinary mind. Continue reading... • Benedict Takes the Next Step with Islam | Mark Brumley We're hearing calls for more dialogue with Islam in the wake of the uproar following Pope Benedict XVI's remarks at the University of Regensburg. Yet the uproar itself underscores the problem with such calls for dialogue. How can you talk seriously with people when they're apt to react violently as soon as you say something they don't want to hear? Continue reading... • Ratzinger and Regensburg: On What Is a University? | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. The controversy over Benedict XVI's lecture at the University of Regensburg is not just about the status of truth in Islam. Rather at issue is the nature of a university. What happens there? The notion of state ministers and legislatures entering into this issue by their political methods, threatening this or that because of what is argued in a university, is itself a failure to grasp what a university is, let alone what a state is. Continue reading... • The Price of Abandoning Reason | Dr. Jose Yulo • Are Truth, Faith, and Tolerance Compatible? | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger • The Usual Suspects, the Usual Suspect Stuff | Carl E. Olson • The Double Standard | Carl E. Olson • The (False) Tale of Two Popes | Carl E. Olson • Learn "History" From the MSM! | Carl E. Olson IGNATIUSINSIGHT.COM ARTICLES ON RELATED TOPICS: • On Reading the Pope | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. • 9/11 Revisited | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. • Tom Burnett: A Hero on Flight 93 | An interview with Deena Burnett, author of Fighting Back • Martyrs and Suicide Bombers | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. • On the Term "Islamo-Fascism" | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. • Spartans, Traitors, and Terrorists | Dr. Jose Yulo • Plato's Ring in the Sudan: How Freedom Begets Isolation of the Soul | Dr. Jose Yulo • The Molochs of Modernity | Dr. Jose Yulo • The Echo of Melos: How Ancient Honor Unmasks Islamic Terror | Dr. Jose Yulo • Urban II: The Pope of the First Crusade | Régine Pernoud • Crusade Myths | Thomas F. Madden • Mistakes, Yes. Conspiracies, No. | The Fourth Crusade | Vince Ryan IGNATIUSINSIGHT.COM AUTHOR PAGES: • Author Page for Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI • Author Page for Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. If you'd like to receive the FREE IgnatiusInsight.com e-letter (about every 2 to 3 weeks), which includes regular updates about IgnatiusInsight.com articles, reviews, excerpts, and author appearances, please click here to sign-up today! |
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G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of the finest Christian authors and apologists
of the past two hundred years. Raised as an agnostic, he embraced Christianity as a young man, ultimately entering the Catholic Church
in 1922. He wrote hundreds of essays, as well as novels, short stories, poetry, apologetics, literary
criticism, and nearly everything else imaginable. Dale Ahlquist, president and co-founder of the American
Chesterton Society and author of 
