I spoke recently with Fr Jeffrey Kirby, a moral theologian and priest in South Carolina, whose book Sanctify them in Truth is a response to the prophetic words of his mentor Cardinal Ratzinger who, in 2005, spoke of a “dictatorship of relativism”.
As an expert on conscience formation, the natural moral law and the effort to introduce moral truth within pluralistic societies, he is in high demand to lead conferences and retreats throughout the US.
It is no wonder, for like Pilate unable to recognise truth when he is staring it in the face, our culture has no answer to the deepest yearnings of the human heart. In the relatively short space between my birth and the birth of my children, I tell him, nonsense poems that we used to laugh at have given way to a nonsense reality that we’re not allowed to laugh at.
