Modern man yearns to be reintegrated within himself and within his environment. The foundational experience of younger generations is a disjointed and unintegrated environment in which the natural law has been so deconstructed that the dominant culture is one of isolated ideas that never emerge into a coherent philosophy or religion which answers the basic questions of life.
What is truth? What is the path to human flourishing? What is happiness? And how does all of this align with the reality of death and life after death?
Vague sentimentalism replaces a coherent system of meaning. Feeling is exalted and canonized but proves to be a fickle lover who never seems to be fully satisfied. The general dissatisfaction in this contemporary context is very much the result of the general uncertainty of this new world order. The 10 commandments written on stone have been replaced with a thousand commandments built on sand, ready to change at a moments notice.
But perhaps the classical sources of Catholic and Western thought have more to offer us than most are willing to admit? It is precisely in recovering these ancient sources that a light can be shone in the darkness and confusion. The cry of the heart of modern man longs not for endless questions and confusion, but solid answers