Words Worth Noting - December 15, 2024

“He [Harvard chaplain Peter J. Gomes] is surely right that extermination, conversion, and demoralizing relativism are not the only options. The best of options is a particular tradition with truth claims that exclude contradictory truth claims and include the truth claim that the dignity of the human person means that all human beings, no matter how erroneous their beliefs, are to be engaged with love and respect.”

Richard John Neuhaus in First Things December 2006 (#168)