Benedict XVI on Europe – there is no doubt his wisdom applies to the U.S. as well
“Europe, precisely in this hour of it’s greatest success, seems to have become hallowed out, paralyzed in a certain sense by a crises of it’s circulatory system, a crises that endangers its life, which depends, so to speak, on transplants, which then, however, cannot help undermine it’s identity. This interior dwindling of spiritual strength that once supported it is accompanied by the fact that Europe appears to be on the way out ethnically as well.
There is a strange lack of will for the future. Children, who are the future, are seen as a threat to the present; it is thought that they take away something of our life. They are perceived, not as a hope, but rather as a limitation on the present. This invites a comparison with the decline of the Roman Empire: it was still functioning as a great historical context, but in practice it was already living off of those who would eventually break it up, because it no longer had any vital energy of its own.”
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