Late in life, Pope John Paul II gave a series of interviews subsequently collected in the book Memory and Identity (2005). There, in response to a question about the pervasive ideologies that had swept Europe during the past couple of centuries, and which had resulted in the slaughter of millions, he contended that in order to explain all this,we have to go back to the period before the Enlightenment, especially to the revolution brought about by the philosophical thought of Descartes.
Originally from:
John Paul II Identified the Source of Our Present Cultural Malaise
