Cardinal George says modern culture leaves people without firm values

Published: 2003-11-20

ROME (CNS) -- Modern culture's exaltation of individualism and its pandering to changing whims are leaving people without firm references to the values and ideas that can draw them together and give them a common identity, said Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago. "Modern culture fosters the dissolution of human community, for it lacks any single publicly acknowledged system for integrating, legitimizing and evaluating human experience," the cardinal told a conference in Rome. The cardinal spoke at Rome's Lateran University Nov. 20 during a conference marking the 10th anniversary of Pope John Paul II's encyclical, "Veritatis Splendor," on moral theology.

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