Entitled “A Perennial Light for the New Dark Ages,” and written by our very own Dr. Thaddeus J. Kozinski, Assistant Professor of Humanities and Trivium, it explores the troubling ways in which our modern society is being attacked from within by nihilism and relativism. And it proposes a solution to this attack.

 

Recounting Benedict XVI's words prior to being named Pope -- “We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goals one’s own ego and one’s own desires” -- Dr. Kozinski highlights the problems facing the young men and women of today. He points out the profound importance of the Catholic Church's "counter cultural" approach to the problems of modernity, and proposes Wyoming Catholic College's educational model as an encouraging example of ways in which we can combat the dictatorship of relativism that faces so many of us.

 

"Let us answer our new Benedict’s clarion-call to topple the dictatorship of relativism and help usher in a new civilization of love under the reign of Christ. You are chosen to be a saint. You have been chosen to be cultured and civilized in these uncivilized times. You have been chosen to be holy. At Wyoming Catholic College, you can become one of the philosophical doctors and spiritual healers our dying culture desperately needs."

 

The entire essay is available here. (November 2, 2009)