Mark Steyn, On Point.

Mark Steyn, as usual, nails it this morning with a crystal clear column in the Telegraph. One of many great points:

"The root of the Pope's thinking - that there are eternal truths no one can change even if one wanted to - is completely incomprehensible to the progressivist mindset. There are no absolute truths, everything's in play, and by "consensus" all we're really arguing is the rate of concession to the inevitable: abortion's here to stay, gay marriage will be here any day now, in a year or two it'll be something else - it's all gonna happen anyway, man, so why be the last squaresville daddy-o on the block?"

And more ...

"Too many Western politicians of a generation ago - Schmidt, Trudeau, Mitterrand - failed to see what John Paul saw so clearly. It requires tremendous will to cling to the splendour of truth when the default mode of the era is to blur and evade."

Do yourself a favor and read the entire article.

One of the beneficial outgrowths of the Pope's passing, if there can be such things, is the renewed focus and explanation of the natural law. Let's hope that it continues.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/04/05/do0501.xml